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Author:   Stephen Downes
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9781138322998

ISBN 10:   1138322997
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   31 May 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1.Introduction: Getting Sentimental Part 1: Spaces 2. Sentimental virtues in the Victorian Salon: Joseph Joachim on the lawn and in the lounge. 3. Feeling and Design Magnified: the place and status of sentimental music in the nineteenth-century concert hall. Part 2: Genres 4. Sentimental Waltzes: tender steps from Goethe to Ravel. 5. Longing to Belong: Nationalism, sentimentalism, and the Second Violin Concertos of Bartók and Szymanowski. Part 3: Psychologies 6. Sentimentalism and Masochism: Barthes’s Schumann and Schumann’s ‘Chopin’. 7. Two Sentimental English Gentlemen: ‘screen memories’, a Schubert lied and the voice of Gracie Fields in Merchant-Ivory’s The Remains of the Day. Part 4: Appropriations 8. Ellington, Liszt, and Chopin’s Death Bed. 9. Chopin on the Beach: Bossa nova, Tom Jobim’s ‘Insensatez’, and sentimental ecology. 10. Chopin and the Power Ballad: Barry Manilow’s ‘Could it be Magic?’ Part 5: Sympathies 11. Make it ‘Easy’? Sentimental subject positions in songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. 12. Homes and Roads: the song writing of Carole King and Jimmy Webb. Coda: Compassion, Mediation and the Consumer 13. Górecki’s Tears/ Our Tears.

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Stephen Downes is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author/editor of nine books, including Music and Decadence in European Modernism (2010), After Mahler (2013), and Aesthetics of Music (2014).

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