The Cambridge Companion to the ConcertoSimon P. Keefe No musical genre has had a more chequered critical history than the concerto but simultaneously retained as consistently prominent a place in the affections of the concert-going public. This volume, one of very few to deal with the genre in its entirety, assumes a broad remit, setting the concerto in its musical and non-musical contexts, examining the concertos that have made important contributions to musical culture, and looking at performance-related topics. |
Contents
Theories of the concerto from the eighteenth century | 7 |
The concerto and society | 19 |
The Italian concerto in the late seventeenth and early | 35 |
The concerto in northern Europe to c 1770 | 53 |
aesthetic | 70 |
The nineteenthcentury piano concerto | 93 |
Nineteenthcentury concertos for strings and winds | 118 |
Contrasts and common concerns in the concerto 19001945 | 139 |
The concerto since 1945 | 161 |
The rise and fall of the concerto virtuoso in the late | 177 |
Performance practice in the eighteenthcentury concerto | 192 |
Performance practice in the nineteenthcentury concerto | 227 |
The concerto in the age of recording | 247 |
Notes | 261 |
288 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accompaniment Adagio aesthetic Allegro arpeggios Bach's Baroque bars Bartók bass bassoon Beethoven Beethoven's Concertos Brahms Brandenburg Concertos brilliant C. P. E. Bach cadenza Cambridge Companion Cello Concerto chord Classical composers composition concertino continuo contrast critics dialogue Dohnányi early Edited eighteenth century Elliott Carter embellishment ensemble example flat major flute French G minor German Handel harmonic harpsichord Haydn horn Ibid instruments intimate grandeur Italian J. S. Bach Johann keyboard concertos Keyboard Instruments Liszt London Louis Spohr melody Mendelssohn ment Mozart's Mozart's concertos Mozart's Piano Concertos musicians nineteenth century notes oboe ornaments Paganini passages Performance Practices pianist piano and orchestra Piano Concerto played players Prokofiev Quantz recapitulation recording ritornello Schumann slow movement solo exposition solo-orchestra soloist sonata Spohr Stravinsky strings style stylistic Symphony Tchaikovsky tempo texture thematic theme Tia DeNora tion Torelli traditional trans trumpet Vienna viola Violin Concerto violinist Viotti virtuoso Vivaldi wind Zaslaw