The romantic overture and musical form from Rossini to Wagner
By: Steven Vande Moortele
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781107163195
Subjects: Musical form; Overtures; History and criticism; Music
Description: In this book, Steven Vande Moortele offers a comprehensive account of operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850. Discussing a broad range of works by German, French, Italian, and other composers, it is at once an investigation of the romantic overture within the context of mid-nineteenth-century musical culture and an analytical study that focuses on aspects of large-scale formal organization in the overture genre. While the book draws extensively upon the recent achievements of the "new Formenlehre", it does not use the overture merely as a vehicle for a theory of romantic form, but rather takes an analytical approach that engages with individual works in their generic context. -- from dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Making overtures; title: Form as formula; title: Potpourri overtures; title: Beginning before the beginning; title: Strong subordinate themes; title: Open-ended expositions; title: Recomposed recapitulations.