Download or read book Nineteenth Century Chamber Music written by Stephen Hefling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth Century Chamber Music proceeds chronologically by composer, beginning with the majestic works of Beethoven, and continuing through Schubert, Spohr and Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, the French composers, Smetana and Dvorák, and the end-of-the-century pre-modernists. Each chapter is written by a noted authority in the field. The book serves as a general introduction to Romantic chamber music, and would be ideal for a seminar course on the subject or as an adjunct text for Introduction to Romantic Music courses. Plus, musicologists and students of 19th century music will find this to be an invaluable resource.
Download or read book The Social Worlds of Nineteenth Century Chamber Music written by Marie Sumner Lott and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music played an important role in the social life of nineteenth-century Europe, and music in the home provided a convenient way to entertain and communicate among friends and colleagues. String chamber music, in particular, fostered social interactions that helped build communities within communities. Marie Sumner Lott examines the music available to musical consumers in the nineteenth century, and what that music tells us about their tastes, priorities, and activities. Her social history of chamber music performance places the works of canonic composers such as Schubert, Brahms, and Dvoøák in relation to lesser-known but influential peers. The book explores the dynamic relationships among the active agents involved in the creation of Romantic music and shows how each influenced the others' choices in a rich, collaborative environment. In addition to documenting the ways companies acquired and marketed sheet music, Sumner Lott reveals how the publication and performance of chamber music differed from that of ephemeral piano and song genres or more monumental orchestral and operatic works. Several distinct niche markets existed within the audience for chamber music, and composers created new musical works for their use and enjoyment. Insightful and groundbreaking, The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music revises prevailing views of middle-class influence on nineteenth-century musical style and presents new methods for interpreting the meanings of musical works for musicians both past and present.
Download or read book Nineteenth century Chamber Music written by Stephen Hefling and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Music written by Carl Dahlhaus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent survey of the most popular period in music history is an extended essay embracing music, aesthetics, social history, and politics, by one of the keenest minds writing on music in the world today. Dahlhaus organizes his book around "watershed" years--for example, 1830, the year of the July Revolution in France, and around which coalesce the "demise of the age of art" proclaimed by Heine, the musical consequences of the deaths of Beethoven and Schubert, the simultaneous and dramatic appearance of Chopin and Liszt, Berlioz and Meyerbeer, and Schumann and Mendelssohn. But he keeps us constantly on guard against generalization and clich . Cherished concepts like Romanticism, tradition, nationalism vs. universality, the musical culture of the bourgeoisie, are put to pointed reevaluation. Always demonstrating the interest in socio-historical influences that is the hallmark of his work, Dahlhaus reminds us of the contradictions, interrelationships, psychological nuances, and riches of musical character and musical life. Nineteenth-Century Music contains 90 illustrations, the collected captions of which come close to providing a summary of the work and the author's methods. Technical language is kept to a minimum, but while remaining accessible, Dahlhaus challenges, braces, and excites. This is a landmark study that no one seriously interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture will be able to ignore.
Download or read book Audience and Style in Nineteenth century Chamber Music C 1830 to 1880 written by Marie Sumner Lott and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the reciprocal relationship between receivers and producers of chamber music in the nineteenth century and the effect of that relationship on composition and musical language in the interim between the last works of Beethoven and Schubert and the mature works of Brahms. Although modem histories propagate the assumption that one notion of "true" chamber music prevailed in this period and that composers struggled first and foremost to "live up to" the late works of Beethoven, I propose that multiple chamber-music styles developed in response to the specific tastes ofaudience niches within a diverse musical culture. A reevaluation of the surviving scores, publication records, and journalism indicates that several distinct niches of avid chamber musicians developed within this half century, each with its own expectations and social and musical conventions. Taking each of these (playing- )audiences in turn, the dissertation portrays a cross-section of the world of chamber music between 1830 and 1880, showing a dynamic mixture of styles and ideas that coexisted and cross-pollinated, and creating a model for the exploration of an ongoing dialog between composers and their audiences throughout the history of Western music. Chapter 1 addresses the notion of "audience" as a broad term encompassing both the traditional definition (listening audiences, i.e., groups gathered for the live presentation of a musical work) and, more generally, all potential recipients of music, including purchasers of sheet music and scores, who came to dominate the musical consumer market in this period. Historians and musicologists have yet to embrace this "unseen" audience in their assessments of musical life in the nineteenth century, favoring instead the "seen" audience represented by public concert attendance and series subscriptions. Each of the middle three chapters describes a particular chamber-music audience and the musical style that addresses it. Chapter 2 focuses on the domestic sphere of the middle classes, with a discussion of works by Friedrich Kuhlau, George Onslow, and Louis Spohr, ending with an examination of Schubert's late chamber works and their distinctive use of the domestic style. A brief interlude between Chapters 2 and 3 introduces the notion of "progressive" chamber music, a term that seemed antithetical to mid-nineteenth-century music-political writers who, like modem-day commentators, often deemed chamber music inherently conservative. Chapter 3 examines four programmatic works that offer distinctive approaches to the incorporation of extramusical texts or programs in the string quartet (including works by Onslow, Gade, Raff, and Smetana) and the audiences these composers sought to cultivate. Although Onslow's "Bullet" Quintet addressed an exclusive body of friends and family, the other three composers clearly aligned themselves with the avant-garde musical establishment of their day: a Copenhagen-based circle of Schumann disciples, in Gade's case, and the "New German" supporters, in the case of Raff and Smetana. Chapter 4 presents another approach to "progressiveness" in the string quartet, analyzing works that enter into dialog with the past and with each other as composers such as Mendelssohn, Norbert Burgmtiller, Schumann, and Berwald experimented with form, texture, and thematic content, often alluding to well-known and enigmatic works by Beethoven (especially his op. 132 quartet in A minor). The final chapter reevaluates a few seminal works in Brahms's chambermusic output in light of the variety of venues and audiences, the aims and considerations, that informed his development as a consummate chamber musician and composer. The dissertation ends with a call to rethink our notions of composers' intentions in writing music during an age that saw the rapid rise and fall of a highly literate, passionate, and invested musical culture far removed from the worlds of the aristocratic court and of the concert stage. By changing our own perspective slightly, we may come to a fresher and more meaningful understanding of the musical language used in today's well-known chamber works, and we might discover "new" works ready for a revival.
Download or read book Intimate Music written by John H. Baron and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive overview of instrumental chamber music from the 16th century to the present. There are comparisons of different genres, composers, and periods. Situations for chamber music at different moments in history are brought into a continuum, and all aspects of chamber music are placed into perspective. A History of the Idea of Chamber Music is chronologically organized at the most general level. Beyond that, national schools figure prominently, as well as genres and personalities. Throughout this book the composition of chamber music, the performance of chamber music, and the social, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions for chamber music have been considered per se and as they interact. (From the Introduction)
Download or read book Chamber Music written by Mark A. Radice and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough overview and history of chamber music
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Music written by Carl Dahlhaus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent survey of the most popular period in music history is an extended essay embracing music, aesthetics, social history, and politics, by one of the keenest minds writing on music in the world today. Dahlhaus organizes his book around "watershed" years--for example, 1830, the year of the July Revolution in France, and around which coalesce the "demise of the age of art" proclaimed by Heine, the musical consequences of the deaths of Beethoven and Schubert, the simultaneous and dramatic appearance of Chopin and Liszt, Berlioz and Meyerbeer, and Schumann and Mendelssohn. But he keeps us constantly on guard against generalization and clich . Cherished concepts like Romanticism, tradition, nationalism vs. universality, the musical culture of the bourgeoisie, are put to pointed reevaluation. Always demonstrating the interest in socio-historical influences that is the hallmark of his work, Dahlhaus reminds us of the contradictions, interrelationships, psychological nuances, and riches of musical character and musical life. Nineteenth-Century Music contains 90 illustrations, the collected captions of which come close to providing a summary of the work and the author's methods. Technical language is kept to a minimum, but while remaining accessible, Dahlhaus challenges, braces, and excites. This is a landmark study that no one seriously interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture will be able to ignore.
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Chamber Music written by Stephen Hefling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth Century Chamber Music proceeds chronologically by composer, beginning with the majestic works of Beethoven, and continuing through Schubert, Spohr and Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, the French composers, Smetana and Dvorák, and the end-of-the-century pre-modernists. Each chapter is written by a noted authority in the field. The book serves as a general introduction to Romantic chamber music, and would be ideal for a seminar course on the subject or as an adjunct text for Introduction to Romantic Music courses. Plus, musicologists and students of 19th century music will find this to be an invaluable resource.
Download or read book New found Voices written by Derek Hyde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this volume by Derek Hyde remedies the lack of information concerning the contribution made by women to musical life in Britain during the nineteenth century in this carefully researched survey. The book reveals the significant role played by women in the production and performance of certain genres of music, such as piano music, songs and ballads, and touches on the reasons why they were more prominent in these areas than in the male preserves of chamber and orchestral music. In particular, the pioneering work of Sarah Glover in Sol-fa notation and the part played by Mary Wakefield in establishing the Competitive Festival Movement are charted. The third edition includes a new introduction, taking into account recent research in the field of gender and music. There is also a revised chapter on the work of Ethel Smyth, the first woman composer to enjoy a measure of success in England. This book will be of interest to social historians, musicologists and those concerned with women’s history alike.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Nineteenth Century Music written by Jim Samson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-03 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field. Essays investigate the intellectual and socio-political history of the time, and examine topics such as nations and nationalism, the emergent concept of an avant garde, and musical styles and languages at the turn of the century. It contains a detailed chronology, and extensive glossaries.
Download or read book Ideals of the nineteenth century written by Henry Cope Colles and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of Chamber Music by Selected Nineteenth century American Composers written by Naomi Kipp and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nineteenth Century French Song written by Barbara Meister and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Song by song, this comprehensive study addresses each composer's complete works for solo voice and piano. When necessary, errors in popular published editions are pointed out and corrected. For each song, the full French text is given, followed by Barbara Meister's translation."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book The Growth of Music Ideals of the nineteenth century written by Henry Cope Colles and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mozart s Music of Friends written by Edward Klorman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.
Download or read book Some Nineteenth Century Composers written by John Horton and published by Freeport, N.Y. : Books for Libraries Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
