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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154338703321

Autore

Daub Adrian

Titolo

Four-handed monsters : four-hand piano playing and nineteenth-century culture

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-998180-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

785/.6219209034

Soggetti

Piano music (4 hands) - History and criticism - 19th century

Music

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Music History & Criticism, Instrumental

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Daub provides the first in-depth study of four-hand piano playing as both a musical and a cultural phenomenon. He argues that through the newly emergent forms of dissemination that became possible in the nineteenth century, and in concert with the ever more popular piano, four-hand piano playing became a central organising institution of nineteenth-century home culture. In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled classes and of those looking to join them.