The Romantic era
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The Romantic era
(Heritage of music / edited by Michael Raeburn and Alan Kendall, v. 2)
Oxford University Press, 1989
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume, the second of four on the history of western music, concentrates on the Romantic era.
Table of Contents
- Ludwig van Beethoven - life and works, Alan Kendall and Basil Lam
- interlude - harpsichord to pianoforte
- Beethoven's symphonies, Antony Hopkins
- Beethoven's string quartets, Denis Matthews
- Franz Schubert - life and works, Otto Biba and Brian Newbould
- interlude - Goethe and music
- Schubert's songs, Philip Radcliffe
- Romantic music, Carl Dahlhaus
- Carl Maria von Weber, Ludwig Finscher
- interlude - a revolution in wind instruments
- Hector Berlioz, Julian Rushton
- Frederick Chopin, Philip Radcliffe
- interlude - the travelling virtuoso - Paganini
- Felix Mendelssohn, Larry Todd
- Robert Schumann, Bernard Keeffe
- the operatic tradition, Robert Donington
- interlude - the Romantic ballet
- Gioacchino Rossini, Benedict Sarnaker
- interlude - Mozart's operas in the nineteenth century
- Bellini and Donizetti, Roger Parker and William Ashbrook
- interlude - Scribe and the Paris Opera
- Giuseppe Verdi, Roger Parker
- Giacomo Puccini and Verismo, William Ashbrook. A-Z of composers, Virgil Pomfret et al. Credits and index.
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