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The invention of "folk music" and "art music" : emerging categories from Ossian to Wagner /
We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music today. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obs...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | New perspectives in music history and criticism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music today. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed with creativity and musical origins, and classify music along these lines. Matthew Gelbart argues that folk music and art music became meaningful concepts only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and only in relation to each other. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 287 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511481918 0511481918 9780511355622 0511355629 9780511352829 0511352824 0521178347 9780521178341 1107178231 9781107178236 1281153400 9781281153401 9786611153403 6611153403 0511353987 9780511353987 1139131931 9781139131933 0511355106 9780511355103 |