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Fantasies of improvisation : free playing in nineteenth-century music / Dana Gooley

Author
Gooley, Dana A. (Dana Andrew), 1969-
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.The School of Abbe Vogler: Weber and Meyerbeer -- 2.The Kapellmeister Network and the Performance of Community: Hummel, Moscheles, and Mendelssohn -- 3.Carl Loewe's Performative Romanticism -- 4.Schumann and the Economization of Musical Labor -- 5.Liszt and the Romantic Rhetoric of Improvisation -- 6.Improvisatoriness: The Regime of the Improvisation Imaginary.
Summary
This work is a history of keyboard improvisation in European music in the postclassical and romantic periods (c.1815-1870). Grounded in primary sources, it documents practices of improvisation on the piano and the organ, with a particular emphasis on free fantasies and other forms of free playing.
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ISBN
9780190633615 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Note
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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