Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination - Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music

Klappentext Explores the revival of sixteenth-century music in nineteenth-century Germany, focusing on the reception of Palestrina. Zusammenfassung James Garratt explores the revival of sixteenth-century music in nineteenth-century Germany! focusing on the reception of Palestrina by critics! historians! performers and composers. This book will interest scholars! students and devotees of nineteenth-century music! and those interested in nineteenth-century culture! art! architecture! literature and aesthetics! and the early music revival. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Historicism in nineteenth-century art, aesthetics and culture; 2. Romanticism and the problem of church music; 3. The Protestant Palestrina revival; 4. The Catholic Palestrina Revival; 5. Palestrina in the concert hall; 6. Interpreting the secondary discourse of nineteenth-century music; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: James Garratt
• Assisted by: John Butt (Editor), Laurence Dreyfus (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521001960
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00196-0
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: Musical Performance and Reception; Cambridge Musical Texts and Mo; Cambridge Musical Texts and Mo
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history