What Charles Rosen's celebrated book The Classical Style did for music
of the Classical period, this new, much-awaited volume brilliantly does
for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical
language, forms, and styles of the Romantic period, it captures the
spirit that enlivened a generation of composers and musicians, and in
doing so it conveys the very sense of Romantic music. In readings
uniquely informed by his performing experience, Rosen offers
consistently acute and thoroughly engaging analyses of works by
Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Bellini, Liszt, and Berlioz, and he
presents a new view of Chopin as a master of polyphony and large-scale
form. He adeptly integrates his observations on the music with
reflections on the art, literature, drama, and philosophy of the time,
and thus shows us the major figures of Romantic music within their
intellectual and cultural context.
Harvard UP 1998 | 744 Pages | ISBN: 0674779347 | EPUB + PDF | 90 MB + 12 MB
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