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Record Nr.

UNISA996248038803316

Autore

Rosen Charles <1927-2012>

Titolo

The romantic generation [[electronic resource] /] / Charles Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 1998, c1995

ISBN

0-674-25590-9

Edizione

[1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 723 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

780/.9/034

Soggetti

Romanticism in music

Music - 19th century - History and criticism

Romanticism in music - History and criticism - 19th century

Music

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Music History & Criticism, General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Based on the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures"--Half-title page.

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Music and sound -- Fragments -- Mountains and song cycles -- Formal interlude -- Chopin: counterpoint and the narrative forms -- Chopin: virtuosity transformed -- Chopin: from the miniature genre to the sublime style -- Liszt: on creation as performance -- Berlioz: liberation from the central European tradition -- Mendelssohn and the invention of religious kitsch -- Romantic opera: politics, trash, and high art -- Schumann: triumph and failure of the romantic ideal.