The Late Romantic era : from the mid-19th century to World War I / Edited by Jim Samson.

Other author Samson, Jim.
Format Book
Edition1st North American ed.
Publication InfoEnglewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©1991.
Description463 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesMusic and society (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.)
Music and society (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.) ^A286397
Contents Music and society / Jim Samson -- Germany: the 'special path' / John Deathridge -- Vienna: absolutism and nostalgia / Paul Banks -- Paris: opera reigns supreme / James Harding -- Italy: the decline of a tradition / John Rosselli -- Spain: a nation in turbulence / Lionel Salter -- Russia: east meets west / David Fanning -- East central Europe: the struggle for national identity / Jim Samson -- Scandinavia: unity in diversity / Joh Bergsagel -- Victorian England: an age of expansion / Donald Burrows -- The USA: classical, industrial and invisible music / Charles Hamm -- Latin America: reflections and reactions -- Germany: cross-currents and contradictions / Arnold Whittall -- Fin-de-siecle Vienna: politics and modernism / Paul Banks -- Paris: conflicting notions of progress / Jann Pasler.
Abstract This book treats the period bounded by the 1848 revolutions and the outbreak of World War I. It examines several musical dimensions of the bourgeois cultural ascendancy of the second half of the 19th century - the growth of independent institutions of music-making, the consolidation of a standard classical repertory and the emergence of increasingly specific repertories of popular music, professional and amateur. Single chapters on particular countries or regions are framed by pairs of chapters on Vienna, Paris and the German cities. In an opening chapter the author places the later geographical surveys within a thematic context which embraces social and economic change, political ideology and the climate of ideas.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN0135241820 (pbk.)

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