Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France
Subtitle: La Revue et gazette musicale de Paris 183480
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780521035897
Subjects: Other prose: 19th century; Theory of music & musicology; c 1800 to c 1900; Music; Music/Songbooks; France; Genres & Styles - International; History & Criticism - General; Music / General; Music / International; Music : History & Criticism - General; Music--France--19th century--History and crit; Music--France--19th century--History and criticism; General
First sentence: The first three decades of the nineteenth century saw music criticism change from a discipline dominated by literary critics to one presided over by trained musicians addressing their readers in technical language; in the fourth decade, Romanticism's penchant for a fusion of the arts brought writers back into the music critic's domain, producing some of the most imaginative and original criticism of the entire century.