Piano Quartet and Quintet - Style, Structure, and Scoring

Zusatztext Smallman's writing style enlivens a topic that necessitated a fairly straightforward approach. Readers are likely to turn to this slender volume as a reference work. Chamber music performers will want to consult it for ideas on repertory. It is also a fine source for program notes for concert programs or compact disc album notes. The six-page bibliography provides ample material for further research. Klappentext This book examines two notable forms of chamber music involving piano and strings. Smallman surveys the development of these genres from their origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Zusammenfassung Designed as a companion volume to the author's earlier study The Piano Trio, this book surveys the development of the piano quartet and quintet from their relatively modest beginnings in the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Developments during the first four decades of the nineteenth century resulted not only in Schubert's renowned `Trout' quintet, but also in works of much brillinace by Dussek, Hummel, weber, and others in which the piano predominates in a concerto-like role. Subsequently, Schubert's epoch-making quintet of 1842 initiated a broadly `symphonic' style, with large-scale structures and closely integrated textures, which was taken up by many later composers, including Brahms, Dvorak, César Franck, Fauré, and Elgar. the author also examinines the numerous changes in the nature of the genres which have occurred in recent times, and gives special consideration to a number of works by leading 20th-century composers, in which `mixed' media are formed by combining wind instruments with the normal strings-and-piano ensemble.Within his broad historical narrative, Professor Smallman provides descriptive analyses of key works, many with music examples, and also comments perceptively on local trends and developments. his book is likely to be of interest to all those who rae fascinated by this important repertoire - performers, students, and listeners, as well as the general reader....

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• Authors: Smallman, Basil Smallman, The late Basil Smallman, the Late Basil (Former Emeritus Professo Smallman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.1996
• EAN: 9780198166405
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816640-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard, 20th Century, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Strings, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Romanticism, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Classical style, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Keyboard instruments, C 1700 To C 1800, Art music, orchestral and formal music, String instruments, Chamber ensembles