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The New Oxford History of Music is complete This latest and last volume: * completes the set of The New Oxford History of Music in 10 volumes * includes the whole span of western instrumental music and opera in the greater part of the nineteenth century * is edited by one of the most respected scholars of nineteenth-century music In March 1830 Goethe complained to Eckermann that `everybody talks now about Classicism and Romanticism - which no one thought of fifty years ago'. Romanticism - a concept more easily recognized than defined - was the prevailing spirit of the vast outpouring of music in the sixty years chronicled in this volume. The list of major composers treated either wholly or in part will serve as an indication of its scope: Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Brahms, Berlioz, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, Gounod, Bizet, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Dvorák, Smetana, Fauré, Wolf, Puccini, Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss, César Franck, Debussy. Contributors: Gerald Abraham, John Horton, David Charlton, David Kimbell, Siegfried Goslich, Nicholas Temperly, Willi Kahl, Arnold Whittall, Julian Budden, Robert Pascall, Leslie Orrey, David Tunley, Edward Garden, Rosemary Hunt, and John Clapham.

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<br> Splendid....Start reading anywhere, and if you are a lover of Romantic music, you will find it difficult to confine yourself to a few pages; the prospect keeps broadening out, fact, opinion, new insights, discoveries proliferating at a wonderful pace. Whether you look individual composers up in the index, or read the book chapter by chapter, you are likely to be as mesmerized as I. --Fanfare<br> Complet[es] the most satisfying history of music on offer. --Musical Times<br> With the publication of Romanticism (1830-1890), The New Oxford History of Music, a magnificent series in ten volumes, has been completed....Provides a detailed, critical survey of the music and composers of its epoch. The chapters, divided among different forms of music, are written with superb fluency and wide-ranging erudition by the most respectied experts on nineteenth-century music....The history of the period under question--with its brashness and exuberant virility on the one hand and its autumnal melanc

Splendid....Start reading anywhere, and if you are a lover of Romantic music, you will find it difficult to confine yourself to a few pages; the prospect keeps broadening out, fact, opinion, new insights, discoveries proliferating at a wonderful pace. Whether you look individual composers up in the index, or read the book chapter by chapter, you are likely to be as mesmerized as I. --Fanfare<br> Complet[es] the most satisfying history of music on offer. --Musical Times<br> With the publication of Romanticism (1830-1890), The New Oxford History of Music, a magnificent series in ten volumes, has been completed....Provides a detailed, critical survey of the music and composers of its epoch. The chapters, divided among different forms of music, are written with superb fluency and wide-ranging erudition by the most respectied experts on nineteenth-century music....The history of the period under question--with its brashness and exuberant virility on the one hand and its autumnal melancholy on the other--is satisfyingly and handsomely complete....It is a magnificent work, with intellectual vitality, sweep and imagination, calling for subsequent reading. --Choral Journal<br> The book's emphasis on genre provides a very distinctive perspective for this period, different from the more usual composer-oriented approach....An excellent, concrete, and detailed account of the period....Highly recommended from lower-division undergraduate level onward. --Choice<br>

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