Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... Nineteenth-Century Music (1989)by Carl Dahlhaus
None Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is essentially a lengthy essay that covers the most popular period in music history. Music, aesthetics, cultural history, and politics are all covered. All of this from one of the twentieth century's most important musicologists. A fantastic work with many fascinating facts and strong conclusions. ( ) Ruth A. Solie: College Music Symposium, Vol. 30, No. 2, Fall, 1990 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40374051 Rey M. Longyear: Notes, Vol. 47, No. 3,… http://www.jstor.org/stable/941874 no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesBelongs to Publisher Series
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 cliché. 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. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNonePopular covers
Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)780.903The arts Music Music Biography And History By Period 1450-1899LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |