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Beethoven's Century : Essays on Composers and Themes /
"Beethoven's Century addresses perennial questions of what music meant to the composer and his audiences, how it was intended to be played and how today's audiences can usefully approach it." "Beethoven's Century concludes with a wry look at some startling developments...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Composers. Beethoven's game of cat and mouse ; Schubert's pendulum ; Paganini, Mendelssohn and Turner in Scotland ; Berlioz and Schumann ; Alkan's instruments ; Liszt the conductor ; Wolf's Wagner ; Massenet's craftsmanship ; Skryabin's conquest of time ; Janáček's narratives
- Themes. Raise your glass to French music! ; Comic opera ; Repeats ; [G-flat major, 9/8 meter] ; The musicians' arrondissement ; Les anglais ; Dr. Mephistopheles ; The prose libretto ; 'Un pays où tous sont musiciens--' ; Modernisms that failed.