The Late romantic era
Subtitle: from the mid-19th century to World War I
By: edited by Jim Samson.
Contributors: Samson, Jim.
Edition: 1st North American ed.
Series: Music and society; Music and society (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.)
Publisher: Prentice Hall; Prentice Hall College Div; Prentice-Hall
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
Subjects: Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Music -- Social aspects.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.