Romanticism: 1830-1890 (The New Oxford History of Music 9)

Romanticism-a concept more easily recognized than defined-dominated the artistic landscape of music from 1830-1890. Like the other volumes in the New Oxford History of Music series, this final volume to be published provides a detailed, scholarly critical survey of the music and composers of its period. Divided among different forms of music, the chapters, written by eminent scholars under the editorship of one of the most respected experts on nineteenth-century music, detail the work of Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Brahms, Berlioz, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, Gounod, Bizet, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Dvorak, Smetana, Fauré, Wolf, Puccini, Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss, César Franck, and Debussy. v. 1. Ancient and oriental music. v. 2. Early medieval music up to 1300. v. 3. Ars nova and the Renaissance, 1300-1540. v. 4. The age of humanism, 1540-1630. v. 5. Opera and church music, 1630-1750. Edited by A. Lewis and N. Fortune. v. 6. Concert music (1630-1750), edited by Gerald Abraham. v. 7. The age of enlightenment, 1745-1790, edited by E. Wellesz and F. Sternfeld. v. 8. The age of Beethoven, 1790-1830, edited by G. Abraham. v. 9. Romanticism, 1830-1890. v. 10. The Modern age, 1890-1960, edited by M. Cooper. Provides a comprehensive overview of this most diverse of musical periods "the Romantic", sixty years between these two dates which harvested an astonishingly rich crop of great music, much of which has entered the standard instrumental, orchestral, and operatic repertoire. It gives due weight to the masterpieces of the period, but also reassesses lesser known works and placing them firmly in their historical perspective