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Cultivating string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna /
"This book is the first detailed contextual study of string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna, at a time when that genre reigned supreme among the different chamber genres. Focusing on a key transition period in the early nineteenth century, which bore witness to fundamental shifts in the �...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Woodbridge, UK] ; [Rochester, NY, USA] :
The Boydell Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book is the first detailed contextual study of string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna, at a time when that genre reigned supreme among the different chamber genres. Focusing on a key transition period in the early nineteenth century, which bore witness to fundamental shifts in the 'private' sphere of music-making, it explores the 'cultivation' of string quartets by composers, critics, listeners, performers, publishers, and patrons. The book highlights these parties' interactions, ideas, and ideals, which were central to defining the unique cultures of chamber music arising at this time. We gain fresh insights into publishing and marketing, performance venues and practices, review culture, listening theories and practices, and composition in early nineteenth-century Vienna. Until now, the unique theatricality of chamber music, and the 'social' nature of its discourse, has been poorly appreciated. Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's Vienna addresses this misconception and enriches our understanding of this crucial period of change, in which concert life began and previously 'private' music was moved out onto the stage."--Publisher's description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 258 pages) : music |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781787440739 1787440737 |