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This accessible introduction is the first English-language book in a generation to cover program music as idea and repertoire.
List of contents
Introduction; 1. Characters, topics, and the programmatic battlefield; 2. Expression, musical painting, and the concert overture; 3. Berlioz and Schumann on music and literature; 4. Liszt and the symphonic poem; 5. The New German School and beyond; 6. Excursus: Faust; 7. Programmatic paths around the fin de siècle: Mahler and Strauss; 8. Programming the nation; 9. 'Ars Gallica'.
About the author
Jonathan Kregor is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. He is the author of Liszt as Transcriber (Cambridge University Press, 2010), winner of the inaugural Alan Walker Book Award from the American Liszt Society, as well as articles and reviews in numerous academic journals. Since 2012 he has been editor of the Journal of the American Liszt Society. His research interests in musical reproduction, confluences of virtuosity and gender, and music and memory have led to critical editions of works by C. P. E. Bach and Clara Schumann.
Summary
This accessible introduction provides a comprehensive 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, it sets the ideas and repertoires of program music in context, with numerous illustrations and music examples.
