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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radice, Mark A.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chamber music--History and criticism.

Chamber music.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.

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:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472071654

0472071653

9780472051656

0472051652

9780472028115

0472028111

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.3702496

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.