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Fantasies of improvisation : free playing in nineteenth-century music / Dana Gooley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gooley, Dana A. (Dana Andrew), 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Improvisation (Music)--History--19th century.
- Improvisation (Music).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This work is a history of keyboard improvisation in European music in the postclassical and romantic periods (c.1815-1870). Grounded in primary sources, it documents practices of improvisation on the piano and the organ, with a particular emphasis on free fantasies and other forms of free playing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 0-19-063360-3
- 0-19-063361-1
- 0-19-063359-X
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