The Romantic Generation, Volume 1What Charles Rosen's celebrated book The Classical Style did for music of the Classical period, this new, much awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic period, it captures the spirit that enlivened a generation of composers and musicians, and in doing so it conveys the very sense of Romantic music. In readings uniquely informed by his performing experience and amplified by examples on an accompanying CD, Rosen offers consistently acute and thoroughly engaging analyses of works by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Bellini, Liszt, and Berlioz, and he presents a new view of Chopin as a master of polyphony and large-scale form. He adeptly integrates his observations on the music with reflections on the art, literature, drama, and philosophy of the time, and thus shows us the major figures of Romantic music within their intellectual and cultural context. Rosen covers a remarkably broad range of music history and considers the importance to nineteenth-century music of other cultural developments: the art of landscape, a changed approach to the sacred, the literary fragment as a Romantic art form. He sheds new light on the musical sensibilities of each composer, studies the important genres from nocturnes and songs to symphonies and operas, explains musical principles such as the relation between a musical idea and its realization in sound and the interplay between music and text, and traces the origins of musical ideas prevalent in the Romantic period. Rich with striking descriptions and telling analogies, Rosen's overview of Romantic music is an accomplishment without parallel in theliterature, a consummate performance by a master pianist and music historian. |
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THE ROMANTIC GENERATION
Procura do Utilizador - KirkusAuthor/teacher/concert pianist Rosen delivers a monumental follow-up to his award-winning The Classical Style (not reviewed), here concentrating on the generation of European composers who ``came of ... Ler crítica na íntegra
The romantic generation
Procura do Utilizador - Not Available - Book VerdictThis logical and long-awaited sequel to Rosen's award-winning The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (LJ 5/15/71) once again demonstrates the author's extraordinary insights. Rosen explains and ... Ler crítica na íntegra
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The Fragment as Romantic form 48 Open and closed 51 Words | 98 |
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accent accompaniment ambiguity appears aria arpeggios Bach Ballade bass beat Beethoven begins Bellini Berlioz Chopin chord chromatic Classical climax coda complete composer conception contemporaries contrapuntal counterpoint dance Dichterliebe dissonance dominant dramatic E. T. A. Hoffmann effect eighteenth century Etude example expressive F sharp final finger flat major flat minor fragment fugue G major G minor hand harmony Haydn instrumental keyboard landscape later Liszt lyrical main theme mazurka mediant melody memory Mendelssohn modulation motif movement Mozart nineteenth-century Nocturne octave opening bars opera opus original passage pedal pedal point performance phrase pianissimo pianist piano piece played poet polyphonic Prelude Quartet realization repeated rhythm rhythmic Romantic rubato scherzo Schubert Schumann sense sharp minor simple Sonata song cycle sonority sound stanza structure style subdominant submediant sustained Symphony technique tempo texture tonal tone color tonic traditional transformation vocal voice