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Classical music : a concise history from Gluck to Beethoven / Julian Rushton.
| Author/creator | Rushton, Julian |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, ©1986. |
| Description | 192 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The world of art World of art. ^A222346 |
| Contents | Classicism and its background -- Italian opera and the early symphony -- Other operatic traditions; operatic form -- Classical opera at its height -- Instrumental music: its uses, its resources, its meaning -- Keyboard music and the sonata principle -- The principal genres of instrumental music to c. 1800 -- Religious music in a secular age -- Revolution and Romanticism in opera -- Song -- Instrumental music in the 'Age of Beethoven' -- Late Beethoven. |
| Abstract | An account of the classical era's musical history from 1750 to 1830. |
| Local note | Little-261206 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-187) and index. |
| LCCN | 86050223 |
| ISBN | 0500202109 (pbk.) : |