Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination
Subtitle: Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music (Musical Performance and Reception)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521807371
Subjects: Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Music/Songbooks; History & Criticism - General; Music; Germany; Music / General; Music--19th century--History and criticism; Historicism; 19th century; Choral music; History and criticism
First sentence: The relation between nineteenth-century compositions and Palestrina's music presents an intractable aesthetic problem: how were composers and their audiences able to reconcile the compositional use of the music of the past with the Romantic imperatives of originality, authenticity and contemporaneity?