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Nineteenth-Century Music (California Studies in 19th-Century Music)
Carl Dahlhaus
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Description for Nineteenth-Century Music (California Studies in 19th-Century Music)
Paperback. Suitable for those interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture, this work presents a survey of the most popular period in music history. Series: California Studies in 19th Century Music. Num Pages: 427 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AVGC5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 940. Series: California Studies in 19th Century Music. 427 pages, Ill. Suitable for those interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture, this work presents a survey of the most popular period in music history. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: AVGC5. Dimension: 252 x 178 x 30. Weight: 920.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
427
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Series
California Studies in 19th Century Music
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520076440
SKU
V9780520076440
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About Carl Dahlhaus
Carl Dahlhaus was, at the time of his death in 1989, Professor of Music at Technische Universitat Berlin.
Reviews for Nineteenth-Century Music (California Studies in 19th-Century Music)
Dahlhaus is frequently illuminating about major figures who have found less fame with posterity. . . . The learning is immense.
John Drummond, Times Literary Supplement
John Drummond, Times Literary Supplement