Title: The late Romantic era : from the mid-19th century to World War I /
Authors: Samson, Jim.
Publisher: Prentice Hall,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Music History and criticism; Music History and criticism
Abstract: "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."--Amazon.com.
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 / John Bergsagel -- Victorian England: an age of expansion / Donald Burrows -- The USA: classical, industrial and invisible music / Charles Hamm -- Latin America: reflections and reactions / Gerard Béhague -- Germany: cross-currents and contradictions / Arnold Whittall -- Fin-de-siècle Vienna: politics and modernism / Paul Banks -- Paris: conflicting notions of progress / Jann Pasler.