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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radice, Mark A.

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc.

Hilda A. Wurtman Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chamber music--History and criticism.

Chamber music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Intended for the music student, the professional musician, and the music lover, Chamber Music: An Essential History covers repertoire from the Renaissance to the present, crossing genres to include string quartets, piano trios, clarinet quintets, and other groupings. Mark A. Radice gives a thorough overview and history of this long-established and beloved genre, typically performed by groups of a size to fit into spaces such as homes or churches and tending originally toward the string and wind instruments rather than percussion. Radice begins with chamber music's earliest expressions in the seventeenth century, discusses its most common elements in terms of instruments and compositional style, and then investigates how those elements play out across several centuries of composers-among them Mozart, Bach, Haydn, and Brahms-and national interpretations of chamber music. While Chamber Music: An Essential History is intended largely as a textbook, it will also find an audience as a companion volume for musicologists and fans of classical music, who may be interested in the background to a familiar and important genre. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Nature of Early Chamber Music 5

2 The Crystallization of Genres during the Golden Age of Chamber Music 24

3 Classical Chamber Music with Wind Instruments 55

4 The Chamber Music of Beethoven 62

5 The Emergence of the Wind Quintet 83

6 Schubert and Musical Aesthetics of the Early Romantic Era 90

7 Prince Louis Ferdinand and Louis Spohr 102

8 Champions of Tradition: Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms 114

9 Nationalism in French Chamber Music of the Late Romantic Era: Franck, Debussy, Saint-Saens, Faure, and Ravel 171

10 National Schools from the Time of Smetana to the Mid-Twentieth Century 189

11 Nationalism and Tradition: Schoenberg and the Austro-German Avant-Garde 209

12 The Continuation of Tonality in the Twentieth Century 224

13 Strictly Confidential: The Chamber Music of Dmitri Shostakovich 245

14 Two Fugitives from the Soviet Bloc: Gyorgy Ligeti and Karel Husa 263

15 Benchmarks: Chamber Music Masterpieces since circa 1920 274.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hilda A. Wurtman Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Radice, Mark A. Chamber music.

ISBN:

9780472028115

0472028111

Publisher Number:

99953085969

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.