Four-handed monsters : four-hand piano playing and nineteenth-century culture

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daub, Adrian, Author.

Standardized Title:

Zwillinghafte Gebärden. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piano music (4 hands)--History and criticism--19th century.

Piano music (4 hands).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Daub provides the first in-depth study of four-hand piano playing as both a musical and a cultural phenomenon. He argues that through the newly emergent forms of dissemination that became possible in the nineteenth century, and in concert with the ever more popular piano, four-hand piano playing became a central organising institution of nineteenth-century home culture. In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled classes and of those looking to join them.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 20, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-998180-9