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The Cambridge history of nineteenth-century music
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The Cambridge history of nineteenth-century music

Author: Jim Samson
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series: Cambridge history of music.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available.

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jim Samson
ISBN: 0521590175 9780521590174
OCLC Number: 45487437
Description: xv, 772 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The musical work and nineteenth-century history / Jim Samson --
Music and the rise of aesthetics / Andrew Bowie --
The profession of music / John Rink --
The opera industry / Roger Parker --
The construction of Beethoven / K.M. Knittel --
Music and the poetic / Julian Rushton --
The invention of tradition / John Irving --
Choral music / John Butt --
The consumption of music / Derek Carew --
The great composer / Jim Samson --
Progress, modernity and the concept of an avant-garde / John Williamson --
Music as ideal: the aesthetics of autonomy / Max Paddison --
The structures of musical life / Katharine Ellis --
Opera and music drama / Thomas Grey --
Beethoven reception: the symphonic tradition / James Hepokoski --
Words and music in Germany and France / Susan Youens --
Chamber music and piano / Jonathan Dunsby --
Choral culture and the regeneration of the organ / John Butt --
Music and social class / Derek B. Scott --
Nations and nationalism / Jim Samson --
Styles and languages around the turn of the century / Anthony Pople --
Chronology / Sarah Hibberd --
Institutions / Sarah Hibberd --
Personalia / Sarah Hibberd.
Series Title: Cambridge history of music.
Responsibility: edited by Jim Samson.
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