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Steven Vande Moortele - The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner - 9781107163195 - V9781107163195
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The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner

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Description for The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner hardcover. The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850. Num Pages: 294 pages, 23 tables 64 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC5. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174. .
In this book Steven Vande Moortele offers a comprehensive account of operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850. Discussing a broad range of works by German, French, and Italian composers, it is at once an investigation of the Romantic overture within the context of mid-nineteenth century musical culture and an analytical study that focuses on aspects of large-scale formal organization in the overture genre. While the book draws extensively upon the recent achievements of the 'new Formenlehre', it does not use the overture merely as a vehicle for a theory of romantic form, but rather takes ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107163195
SKU
V9781107163195
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-14

About Steven Vande Moortele
Steven Vande Moortele is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Toronto. His research interests include theories of musical form, the analysis of large-scale instrumental music from the late-eighteenth to the early-twentieth century, and the works of Richard Wagner and Arnold Schoenberg. He is the author of Two-Dimensional Sonata Form: Form and Cycle in Single-Movement Instrumental Works by ... Read more

Reviews for The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner
'This book is an important contribution to scholarship in its field. It combines an enviable command of the relevant musical sources and of developing social settings for overtures in the nineteenth century, painting a very broad picture of influence across musical Europe throughout an extended time period that is convincingly drawn and firmly located in up-to-date scholarship that has been ... Read more

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