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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
January 2015
Print publication year:
2015
Online ISBN:
9781139506397
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139506397
Subjects:
Music, Music: General Interest, Music Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Music
Series:
Cambridge Introductions to Music
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Book description

Program music was one of the most flexible and contentious novelties of the long nineteenth century, covering a diverse range that included the overtures of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the literary music of Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's symphonic poems, the tone poems of Strauss and Sibelius, and compositions by groups of composers in Russia, Bohemia, the United States, and France. In this accessible Introduction, Jonathan Kregor explores program music's ideas and repertoire, discussing both well-known and less familiar pieces by an array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers. Setting program music in the context of the intellectual debates of the period, Kregor presents the criticism of writers like A. B. Marx and Hanslick to reveal program music's growth, dissemination, and reception. This comprehensive overview features numerous illustrations and music examples and provides detailed case studies of battle music, Shakespeare settings, and Goethe's Faust.

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'Jonathan Kregor’s Program Music is easy to read, comprehend, and adjust to any educationallevel. The Cambridge Introductions to Music series boasts that the books are formulated to appeal to a wide range of students and interested readers; I would agree that this book meets those standards.'

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Contents

Contents
References
Guide to further reading
Introduction
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
Brittan, Francesca. “Berlioz and the Pathological Fantastic: Melancholy, Monomania, and Romantic Autobiography.” 19th-Century Music 29, 3 (2006): 211–239.
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Taruskin, Richard. On Russian Music. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009.
Trippett, David. “Après une lecture de Liszt: Virtuosity and Werktreue in the ‘Dante’ Sonata.” 19th-Century Music 32, 1 (2008): 52–93.
Chapter 6
Butler, Elizabeth M.The Fortunes of Faust. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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Grim, William E.The Faust Legend in Music and Literature. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.
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Chapter 7
Brosche, Günter. “Musical Quotation and Allusion in the Works of Richard Strauss.” In The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss, ed. Youmans, Charles, 213–225. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Chapter 8
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Faucett, Bill F.George Whitefield Chadwick: The Life and Music of the Pride of New England. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2012.
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Chapter 9
Abbate, Carolyn. Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton University Press, 1996.
Bellman, Jonathan. Chopin’s Polish Ballade: Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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