The characteristic symphony in the age of Haydn and Beethoven /
'Characteristic' symphonies have texts associating them with literature, politics, religion, and other aspects of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century European culture. This first full-length study of the genre illuminates the relationship between symphonies and their aesthetic and soc...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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Series: | New perspectives in music history and criticism.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Paradise lost: Dittersdorf's Four ages of the world and the crisis of Austrian enlightened despotism
- Preaching without words: reform Catholicism versus divine mystery in Haydn's Seven last words
- Boundaries of the art: characteristic music in contemporary criticism and aesthetics
- Paradise regained: time, morality, and humanity in Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
- Making memories: symphonies of war, death, and celebration
- Appendixes: 1. Thematic index of characteristic symphonies
- Pastoral symphonies and movements
- Symphonies and movements by subject.