The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven

(Part of the New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Series)

by Richard Will

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Associated through descriptive texts with literature, politics, religion, and other subjects, 'characteristic' symphonies offer an opportunity to study instrumental music as it engages important social and political debates of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This first full-length study of the genre illuminates the relationship between symphonies and their aesthetic and social contexts by focussing on the musical representation of feeling,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521057175

ISBN13:9780521057172

Release Date:March 2008

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.11 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Arts, Music & Photography History & Criticism Music Musical Genres

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