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The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe - 1800-1840 (Hardcover)
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The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe - 1800-1840 (Hardcover)
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The first book devoted to the composers, instrument makers and
amateur players who advanced the great guitar vouge throughout
Western Europe during the early decades of the nineteenth century.
Contemporary critics viewed the fashion for the guitar with sheer
hostility, seeing in it a rejection of true musical value. After
all, such trends advanced against the grain of mainstream musical
developments of ground-breaking (often Austro-German) repertoire
for standard instruments. Yet amateur musicians throughout Europe
persisted; many instruments were built to meet the demand, a
substantial volume of music was published for amateurs to play, and
soloist-composers moved freely between European cities. This book
follows these lines of travel venturing as far as Moscow, and
visiting all the great musical cities of the period, from London to
Vienna, Madrid to Naples. The first section of the book looks at
eighteenth-century precedents, the instrument - its makers and
owners, amateur and professional musicians, printing and
publishing, pedagogy, as well as aspects of repertoire. The second
section explores the extensive repertoire for accompanied song and
chamber music. A final substantive section assembles chapters on a
wide array of the most significant soloist-composers of the time.
The chapters evoke the guitar milieu in the various cities where
each composer-player worked and offer a discussion of some
representative works. This book, bringing together an international
tally of contributors and never before examined sources, will be of
interest to devotees of the guitar, as well as music historians of
the Romantic period.
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