Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination : Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music / James Garratt.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Garratt, James, 1974-

Series:

• Cambridge books online.
• Musical Performance and Reception

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Music--19th century--History and criticism.
• Music.
• Choral music.
• Historicism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file
• PDF

Contents:

• 1 Historicism in nineteeth-century art, aesthetics and culture 9
• Originality: consensus or controversy? 9
• 'On the benefit and detriment of history' 12
• Hegel, historicism and the 'Decay and disintegration of Art' 28
• 2 Romanticism and the problem of church music 36
• Hoffmann and the Romantic idealization of Palestrina 36
• Palestrina and the Romantic new mythology 47
• Palestrina and absolute vocal music 52
• Palestrina and the modern composer 57
• 3 The Protestant Palestrina revival 62
• Old Italian music, Bildung and the German Singvereine 62
• Quasi-liturgical music: Spohr and Nicolai 69
• Mendelssohn and the Berlin Palestrina revival 78
• Winterfeld and the historical Palestrina 93
• Broader trends in performance and composition 98
• Palestrina and the primacy of vocal music 109
• 4 The Catholic Palestrina revival 133
• Tradition and reform 133
• Witt and the Allgemeine Deutsche Cacilien-Verein 144
• Broader trends in composition: Palestrinianism 161
• Completing Palestrina: Haberl, Haller and the Gesamtausgabe 168
• Liturgical function and aesthetic value 173
• Liszt, Bruckner and the Palestrina revival 181
• 5 Palestrina in the concert hall 214
• Palestrina in secular and non-liturgical music 214
• Wagner's 'Stabat mater' and the poetics of arrangement 222
• Liszt, Wagner and allusion 227
• 6 Interpreting the secondary discourse of nineteenth-century music 241.

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ISBN:

• 9780511481796
• 9780521807371

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