The Late Romantic Era: Volume 7: From the Mid-19th Century to World War I (Man & Music) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349113026 ISBN 13: 9781349113026

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1991

Synopsis

The Late Romantic Era 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 Dr Samson places the later geographical surveys within a thematic context which embraces social and economic change, political ideology and the climate of ideas.

About this title

About the Author:

Jim Samson has been a Professor of Music at the Universities of Exeter and Bristol and is now Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published widely on the music of Chopin and on analytical and aesthetic topics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century music and has recently edited the Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds the Order of Merit of the Polish Ministry of Culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1349113026
• ISBN 13: 9781349113026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 473
• Editor: Samson Jim