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Chamber music : an essential history / Mark A. Radice.

By: Radice, Mark AMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012Description: 375 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780472071654 (cloth : alk. paper); 0472071653 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780472051656 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0472051652 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780472028115 (ebook); 0472028111 (ebook)Subject(s): Chamber music -- History and criticismDDC classification: 785.009 LOC classification: ML1100 | .R34 2012
Contents:
The nature of early chamber music -- The crystallization of genres during the golden age of chamber music -- Classical chamber music with wind instruments -- The chamber music of Beethoven -- The emergence of the wind quintet -- Schubert and musical aesthetics of the early Romantic era -- Prince Louis Ferdinand and Louis Spohr -- Champions of tradition: Mendelssohn, Schumann,and Brahms -- Nationalism in French chamber music of the late Romantic era: Franck, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, and Ravel -- National schools from the time of Smetana to the mid-twentieth century -- Nationalism and tradition: Schoenberg and the Austro-German avant-garde -- The continuation of tonality in the twentieth century -- Strictly confidential: the chamber music of Dmitri Shostakovich -- Two fugitives from the Soviet Bloc: György Ligeti and Karel Husa -- Benchmarks: chamber music masterpieces since circa 1920.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The nature of early chamber music -- The crystallization of genres during the golden age of chamber music -- Classical chamber music with wind instruments -- The chamber music of Beethoven -- The emergence of the wind quintet -- Schubert and musical aesthetics of the early Romantic era -- Prince Louis Ferdinand and Louis Spohr -- Champions of tradition: Mendelssohn, Schumann,and Brahms -- Nationalism in French chamber music of the late Romantic era: Franck, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, and Ravel -- National schools from the time of Smetana to the mid-twentieth century -- Nationalism and tradition: Schoenberg and the Austro-German avant-garde -- The continuation of tonality in the twentieth century -- Strictly confidential: the chamber music of Dmitri Shostakovich -- Two fugitives from the Soviet Bloc: György Ligeti and Karel Husa -- Benchmarks: chamber music masterpieces since circa 1920.

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