Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century: Volume 1, Fugue, Form and Style (Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052125969X ISBN 13: 9780521259699

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This book demonstrates, in fascinating diversity, how musicians in the nineteenth century thought about and described music. The analysis of music took many forms (verbal, diagrammatic, tabular, notational, graphic), was pursued for many different purposes (educational, scholarly, theoretical, promotional) and embodied very different approaches. This, the first volume, is concerned with writing on fugue, form and questions of style in the music of Palestrina, Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner and presents analyses of complete works or movements by the most significant theorists and critics of the century. The analyses are newly translated into English and are introduced and thoroughly annotated by Ian Bent, making this a volume of enormous importance to our understanding of the nature of music reception in the nineteenth century.

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Book Description:

This book demonstrates, in fascinating diversity, how musicians in the nineteenth century thought about and described music. In a representative selection of writing from France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Russia, Ian Bent introduces analyses or descriptions of full-length pieces or movements by the most significant theorists and critics of the century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 052125969X
• ISBN 13: 9780521259699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 391
• Editor: Bent Ian