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"This magnificent survey of the most popular period in music history is an extended essay embracing music, aesthetics, social history, and politics, by one of the keenest minds writing on music in the world today. Dahlhaus organizes his book around ""watershed"" years-for example, 1830, the year of the July Revolution in France, and around which coalesce the ""demise of the age of art"" proclaimed by Heine, the musical consequences of the deaths of Beethoven and Schubert, the simultaneous and dramatic appearance of Chopin and Liszt, Berlioz and Meyerbeer, and Schumann and Mendelssohn. But he keeps us constantly on guard against generalization and cliché. Cherished concepts like Romanticism, tradition, nationalism vs. universality, the musical culture of the bourgeoisie, are put to pointed reevaluation. Always demonstrating the interest in socio-historical influences that is the hallmark of his work, Dahlhaus reminds us of the contradictions, interrelationships, psychological nuances, and riches of musical character and musical life. Nineteenth-Century Music contains 90 illustrations, the collected captions of which come close to providing a summary of the work and the author's methods. Technical language is kept to a minimum, but while remaining accessible, Dahlhaus challenges, braces, and excites. This is a landmark study that no one seriously interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture will be able to ignore."

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Author:   Carl Dahlhaus ,  J. Bradford Robinson
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Edition:   Reprinted edition
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780520076440

ISBN 10:   0520076443
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   12 August 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations CHAPTER ONE Introduction The Nineteenth Century as Past and Present The Twin Styles Music and Romanticism Tradition and Restoration Nationalism and Universality The Music Culture of the Bourgeoisie Bibliographic References CHAPTER TWO 1814-1830 Rossini and the Restoration Opera comique and German Opera Beethoven: Myth and Reception Beethoven's Late Style The Metaphysic of Instrumental Music Lied Traditions The Idea of Folk Song Bibliographic References CHAPTER THREE 1830-1848 Melodie lunghe: Bellini and Donizetti The Dramaturgy of Grand Opera Virtuosity and Interpretation Poetic Music The Symphony after Beethoven Choral Music as a Form of Education Romanticism and Biedermeier Music Church Music and Bourgeois Spirit Bibliographic References CHAPTER FOUR 1848-1870 Wagner's Conception of Musical Drama Opera as Drama: Verdi The Idea of National Opera Opera bouffe, Operetta, Savoy Opera The Symphonic Poem Music Criticism as Philosophy of History Brahms and the Chamber Music Tradition Bibliographic References CHAPTER FIVE 1870-1889 The Second Age of the Symphony Drame lyrique and Operatic Realism Ars gallica Russian Music: Epic Opera Exoticism, Folklorism, Archaism Trivial Music Historicism Bibliographic References CHAPTER SIX 1889-1914 Modernism as a Period in Music History Post-Wagnerian Opera Melodrama and Verismo Program Music and the Art Work ofldeas Linguistic Character and the Disintegration of Tonality Emancipation of Dissonance Bibliographic References CHAPTER SEVEN End of an Era Glossary Index

Reviews

Dahlhaus is frequently illuminating about major figures who have found less fame with posterity. . . . The learning is immense. --John Drummond, Times Literary Supplement

Dahlhaus bristles with rewarding insights, and is full of fine wit. * Victorian Review * Filled with new hearings of familiar material, provocative, juxtapositions and interpretations, and of course, Dahlhaus's characteristic immense learning, historical and philosophical speculations. * College Music Symposium * No other book about the period so engages the thoughtful reader. * New York Review of Books *

"""No other book about the period so engages the thoughtful reader."" * New York Review of Books * ""Filled with new hearings of familiar material, provocative, juxtapositions and interpretations, and of course, Dahlhaus's characteristic immense learning, historical and philosophical speculations."" * College Music Symposium * ""Dahlhaus bristles with rewarding insights, and is full of fine wit."" * Victorian Review *"

Author Information

Carl Dahlhaus was, at the time of his death in 1989, Professor of Music at Technische Universitat Berlin.

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