Music in the Nineteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western MusicThe universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a significant period in the history of Western music. In Music in the Nineteenth Century , Richard Taruskin offers a panoramic tour of this magnificent century in the history music. Major themes addressed in this book include the romantic transformation of opera, Franz Schubert and the German lied, the rise of virtuosos such as Paganini and Liszt, the twin giants of nineteenth-century opera, Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi, the lyric dramas of Bizet and Puccini, and the revival of the symphony by Brahms. Laced with brilliant observations, memorable musical analysis, and a panoramic sense of the interactions between history, culture, politics, art, literature, religion, and music, this book will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand this rich and diverse period. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Romantic Characterstücke Schuberts Career | 61 |
The Romantic Lied Mendelssohns Career the Two Nationalisms | 119 |
Romantic Opera in Germany Mozart Weber France Auber Meyerbeer and Russia Glinka | 187 |
Paganini and Liszt | 251 |
Schumann and Berlioz | 289 |
Chopin and Gottschalk as Exotics Orientalism | 343 |
The New German School Liszts Symphonic Poems Harmonic Explorations | 411 |
Wagner | 479 |
Verdi | 563 |
Russian Realism Musorgsky Chaikovsky Opéra Lyrique Operetta Verismo | 617 |
Brahms | 675 |
Bruckner Dvořák Beach Franck SaintSaëns Borodin Chaikovsky | 745 |
Notes | 803 |
Art Credits | 825 |
Smetana Glinka and Balakirev | 443 |
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