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
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- Contents
- Prelude: The virtue of improvisation -- 1. The school of Abbé 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 -- Postlude: Improvisation and utopia.
- Summary
- The first history of keyboard improvisation in European music from the time of Beethoven through the later nineteenth century, Dana Gooley's Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music describes the motives, intentions, and musical styles of the nineteenth century's leading improvisers, and traces the evolution of the performance practice into a glorified ideal.
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- ISBN
- 9780190633592 (electronic book)
019063359X (electronic book)
9780190633615
0190633611
9780190633608
0190633603
9780190633585 (hardcover)
0190633581 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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