The Concise Oxford History of Music, written by one of the world's most respected musicologists, remains the one-volume history for anyone seriously interested in the subject. This comprehensive work covers the whole history of music by genre from its first recorded emergence in Egypt to the death of Stravinsky.

The Concise Oxford History of Music

Arts & Photography

Abraham, Gerald

Music

Oxford University Press

This volume brings together twelve essays, eleven of which have been published in various books and periodicals over the past two decades. "The Opera of Stanislaw Moniuszko" is published here for the first time. The other essays in this collection are: "Russian Song," "Czechoslovakian Song," "Polish Song," "The Operas of Serov," "Pskovityanka: The Original Version of Rimsky-Korsakov's First Opera," "Vladimir Stasov: Man and Critic," "Some Eighteenth-Century Polish Symphonies," "Satire and Symbolism in The Golden Cockerel," "Heine, Cui, and William Ratcliff," "Arab Melodies in Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin," and "The Early Development of Opera in Poland." An appreciation of Abraham's work has been contributed by Denis Arnold.

Essays on Russian and East European Music

The Concise Oxford History of Music, written by one of the world's most respected musicologists, is the one-volume history for anyone seriously interested in the subject. This comprehensive work covers the whole history of music by genre from its first recorded emergence in Egypt to the death of Stravinsky. Over three hundred musical examples, illustrations, and suggestions for further reading enrich this authoritative volume, and the style id as clear and attractive as all of Abraham's previous writing.

The tradition of Western music

One Hundred Years of Music: After Beethoven and Wagner

One Hundred Years of Music provides a full account of the history of music from the death of Beethoven to the modern era. It covers a period of exceptional interest. The last hundred years coincide roughly with the rise and decline of Romanticism, include the various nationalist movements, and extend to the advent of "neo-classicism," the twelve-tone system, and still more modern techniques. Abraham devotes ample space to modernist and avant garde music, in which he explains the difficulties we experience in listening to the work of such composers as Sch÷nberg, Bart¾k, and Berg. He also throws new light on many more familiar topics. In its earlier editions, One Hundred Years of Music became a standard work on this subject; it has since been brought updated to include coverage of later developments. Abraham approaches his subject as an historian of style rather than an esthetic critic. Rather than pass judgment on particular works or composers, he shows how music has developed, and thus provides a clear and connected history that is more substantial than most books of musical appreciation. An extensive chronology and a full bibliography and index add to the usefulness of the book for students, professionals and musical laymen alike. This third edition incorporates some corrections of fact, further enlarges the bibliography and chronology, and adds commentary on developments in music techniques. In order to correct the historical perspective, the author has included a "prelude" and three "interludes," giving rough sketches of general conditions in the musical world at intervals of thirty years. As the reader's sense of chronology is very apt to get confused when a number of simultaneous streams of development have to be described, the author has inserted the date of composition or performance (both if they are widely separated) of each work at the first mention of it.

History

Americas

Routledge

This book shows the gradual unfolding and maturing of Chopin's musical mind, investigates the working of that mind, and isolates and defines those qualities which make Chopin's work unique in the history of music. The book will be useful to the pianist whose intelligent interpretation of Chopin will depend on a thorough knowledge of the composer's style. It will also be of use to students of harmony.

Chopin's Musical Style

Praeger

Mozart Companion

Greenwood Pub Group

The New Grove Early Romantic Masters 1: Chopin, Schumann, Liszt (New Grove Composer Biography)

Temperley, Nicholas

Searle, Humphrey

Science & Math

Grove Publications

The New Grove Early Romantic Masters I: Chopin, Shumann, Liszt (Composer Biography Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Series: Composer Biography SeriesHardcoverPublisher: W W Norton & Co Inc (July 1986)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0393022838ISBN-13: 978-0393022834

The New Grove Russian Masters II: Rimsky-Korsakov Skryabin Rakhmaninov Prokofiev Shostakovich (Composer Biography Series)

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