Program music
By: Jonathan Kregor
Series: Cambridge introductions to music; Cambridge introductions to music
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781107657250; 9781107032521; 9781139506397
Subjects: Program music; Analysis, appreciation; History and criticism
Description: "Survey of program music from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Exploring works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Liszt, Saint-Saëns, Mahler, Strauss, and others"--from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Characters, topics, and the programmatic battlefield; title: Expression, musical painting, and the concert overture; title: Berlioz and Schumann on music and literature; title: Liszt and the symphonic poem; title: The New German School and beyond; title: Excursus : Faust; title: Programmatic paths around the fin-de-siècle : Mahler and Strauss; title: Programming the nation; title: "Ars Gallica."