Music in the Nineteenth Century (Western Music in Context: A Norton History)

by Frisch, Walter; Frisch, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780393929195
• ISBN10: 0393929191
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-05
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Music in the Nineteenth Century examines the period from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the advent of Modernism in the 1890s. Frisch traces a complex web of relationships involving composers, performers, publishers, notated scores, oral traditions, audiences, institutions, cities, and nations. The book's central themes include middle-class involvement in music, the rich but elusive concept of Romanticism, the cult of virtuosity, and the ever-changing balance between musical and commercial interests. The final chapter considers the sound world of nineteenth-century music as captured by contemporary witnesses and early recordings. Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises six volumes of moderate length, each written in an engaging style by a recognized expert. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest sense-as sounds notated, performed, and heard-focusing not only on composers and works, but also on broader social and intellectual currents.

Table of Contents

Anthology Repertoire	p. xii
Series Editor's Preface	p. xiii
Author's Preface	p. xv
Nineteenth-Century Music and Its Contexts	p. 1
Around 1815	p. 2
The Final Decade of the Century	p. 5
From 1815 to the 1890s	p. 7
The "Tristan" Chord	p. 9
For Further Reading	p. 11
The Romantic Imagination	p. 13
The Reaction Against Classicism	p. 14
Romantic Longing	p. 19
Music in the Romantic Imagination	p. 21
The Religion of Art	p. 23
Fantasy Versus Reality	p. 24
Romantic Irony	p. 26
Romanticism and Nationalism	p. 28
For Further Reading	p. 31
Music and the Age of Metternich	p. 32
The Congress of Vienna	p. 33
Biedermeier Culture	p. 34
Ludwig van Beethoven	p. 37
Franz Schubert	p. 42
Virtuosity, Virtuosos	p. 46
For Further Reading	p. 51
The Opera Industry	p. 52
Italian Opera	p. 53
French Opera	p. 62
German Opera	p. 65
Russian Opera	p. 71
For Further Reading	p. 72
Making Music Matter: Criticism and Performance	p. 73
Music Journalism	p. 74
Civic Engagement: The Case of Felix Mendelssohn	p. 82
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and the Musical Salon	p. 85
Clara Wieck Schumann and the Keyboard	p. 87
For Further Reading	p. 91
Making Music Speak: Program Music and the Character Piece	p. 92
Absolute and Program Music	p. 93
Romantic Piano Music: The Character Piece	p. 100
Robert Schumann and the Lied	p. 109
For Further Reading	p. 111
Beyond Romanticism	p. 112
The Revolutions of 1848	p. 113
Anti-Romanticism and Pessimism	p. 114
Idealism Versus Materialism	p. 116
Realism	p. 119
Historicism	p. 123
Nationalism	p. 124
For Further Reading	p. 131
Richard Wagner and Wagnerism	p. 133
Wagner's Early Life and Career	p. 134
Wagner's Theories of Operatic Reform	p. 136
The Wagnerian Artwork of the Future	p. 138
Wagner's Mature Operas	p. 141
Wagner's Nationalism and Anti-Semitism	p. 146
Wagnerism	p. 149
For Further Reading	p. 152
Verdi, Operetta, and Popular Appeal	p. 153
Giuseppe Verdi	p. 154
Operetta	p. 161
French Opera	p. 168
For Further Reading	p. 172
Concert Culture and the "Great" Symphony	p. 174
Concert Culture	p. 174
The Great Symphony in the Later Nineteenth Century	p. 177
Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner in Vienna	p. 178
Concert Culture in France	p. 185
Russian Concert Culture arid Tchaikovsky's Sixth (Pathétique) Symphony	p. 190
For Further Reading	p. 193
Musical Life and Identity in the United States	p. 195
Federal Boston	p. 196
Spanish Colonial America	p. 197
New Orleans and Louis Moreau Gottschalk	p. 200
Stephen Foster and American Popular Song	p. 202
America at the Opera	p. 205
Classical Music in the Cities	p. 208
For Further Reading	p. 214
The Fin de Siècle and the Emergence of Modernism	p. 215
Connections and Contradictions	p. 216
Strauss, Mahler, and the Modern World	p. 219
Italian Verismo in Opera	p. 226
Color and Sonority: Claude Debussy	p. 232
For Further Reading	p. 235
The Sound of Nineteenth-Century Music	p. 236
Pianos	p. 238
Chopin at the Keyboard	p. 241
The Romantic Tenor	p. 242
Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century	p. 245
Instrumental Color: The Case of the Brass	p. 247
Three Works, Three Recordings	p. 250
For Further Reading	p. 253
Glossary	p. A1
Endnotes	p. A10
Credits	p. A18
Index	p. A19
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