The New Oxford History of Music. Volume VII: The Age of Enlightenment, 1745–1790
by Egon Wellesz, Frederick Sternfeld (Editor)
New Oxford history of music (2nd ed.) (7)
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Covers the period that witnessed many changes in the aesthetic and formal conceptions of music, in techniques, styles and media such as the growth in instrumental music in both quality and stature as religious music ceased to play the leading part, the decline of opera buffa, opera comique and Singspiel, the establishment of the standard orchestra, the dominance of the piano over the harpsichord and clavichord and new forms such as the symphony, string quartet and solo concerto became the show more media for great masterpieces. show lessTags
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- The New Oxford History of Music. Volume VII: The Age of Enlightenment, 1745–1790
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- ' It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . .' And one might continue that famous exordium by saying ' it was the age of artificiality, it was the age of ... (show all)romanticism'.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)These half-bars of a single interval, namely, the semitone, are the limit of Mozart's dismemberment. One ventures to say they must have strained the limits of tolerance if the average audience of the late eighteenth century.
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