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The Romantic Generation (Paperback)
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The Romantic Generation (Paperback)
Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
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What 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,
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 the literature, a consummate performance by a
master pianist and music historian.
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