The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven Hardback: 7 (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, Series Number 7) - Hardcover

Will

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521802016 ISBN 13: 9780521802017

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

'Characteristic' symphonies have texts associating them with literature, politics, religion, and other aspects of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century European culture. This first full-length study of the genre illuminates the relationship between symphonies and their aesthetic and social context and discusses examples of works by composers including Beethoven, Haydn and Dittersdorf.

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'... [this book] is never less than challenging and, at its best, is dazzlingly virtuosic.' Eighteenth-Century Music

Biografía del autor:

Richard Will is Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of Washington. He has articles published or forthcoming on Beethoven, Haydn, and other topics in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century music in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music and Letters, and Beethoven Forum. He has also written a series of critical essays on Jimi Hendrix for the International Dictionary of Black Composers.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521802016
• ISBN 13: 9780521802017
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344