Jim Samson
2) Chopin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of leaves : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 772 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field. It avoids mere repertory surveys, focusing instead on issues which illuminate the subject in novel and interesting ways. The book is divided into two parts (1800-1850 and 1850-1900), each of which approaches the major repertory of the period by way of essays investigating the intellectual and socio-political history of the time. The music...