The Piano Quartet and Quintet: Style, Structure and Scoring - Hardcover

Smallman, The Late Basil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198163746 ISBN 13: 9780198163749

Verlag: Clarendon Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Designed as a companion volume to the author's acclaimed earlier study, The Piano Trio, this book surveys the development of the piano quartet and quintet from their beginnings in the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Developments during the first four decades of the nineteenth century resulted not only in Schubert's renowned Trout Quintet, but also in works of much brilliance by Dussek, Hummel, Weber, and others in which the piano predominates in a concerto-like role. Subsequently, Schumann's epoch-making quintet of 1842 initiated a broadly "symphonic" style, with large-scale structures and closely integrated textures, which was taken up by many later composers, including Brahms, Dvorak, Cesar Franck, Faure, and Elgar. The author also examines the numerous changes in the nature of the genres which have occurred in recent times, and gives special consideration to a number of works by leading twentieth-century composers, in which "mixed" media are formed by combining wind instruments with the normal strings-and-piano ensembles.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Basil Smallman is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Clarendon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198163746
• ISBN 13: 9780198163749
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 207
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