Full Description
Anthology for Music in the Nineteenth Century, part of the Western Music in Context series, is the ideal companion to Music in the Nineteenth Century. Twenty-three carefully chosen works—including movements from a Beethoven quartet, excerpts from operas by Verdi and Bizet, piano music by Gottschalk, and a symphonic movement by Tchaikovsky—offer representative examples of genres and composers of the period. Commentaries following each score present a careful analysis of the music, and online links to purchase and download recordings make listening easier than ever.
Contents
1. Nineteenth-Century Music and Its Contexts 2. The Romantic Imagination
3. Music and the Age of Metternich
4. The Opera Industry
5. Making Music Matter: Criticism and Performance
6. Making Music Speak: Program Music and the Character Piece
7. Beyond Romanticism
8. Richard Wagner and Wagnerism
9. Verdi, Operetta, and Popular Appeal
10. Concert Culture and the "Great" Symphony
11. Musical Life and Identity in the United States
12. The Fin de Siècle and the Emergence of Modernism
13. The Sound of Nineteenth-Century Music
