Research Catalog

Title

Guide to chamber music / Melvin Berger.

Author

Berger, Melvin

Publication

New York : Dodd, Mead, c1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

Irwin K. Carson Collection. mus

Description

xix, 470 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Authoritative, beautifully written guide presents 231 of the most frequently performed pieces of chamber music by 55 composers. For each, the author gives a brief biography, followed by discussions of the individual compositions both their historical and musical contexts and their salient features, including formal organization, content, and any extramusical associations. -- Amazon.com.

Subject

• Chamber music > History and criticism
• Chamber music > Analysis, appreciation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Discography: p. 463-470.

Contents

Anton Arensky -- Samuel Barber -- Béla Bartók -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Alban Berg -- Alexander Borodin -- Johannes Brahms -- Benjamin Britten -- Anton Bruckner -- Elliott Carter -- Aaron Copland -- George Crumb -- Ingolf Dahl -- Franz Danzi -- Claude-Achille Debussy -- Jacob Druckman -- Antonin Dvořák -- Gabriel Fauré -- Irving Fine -- César Franck -- Giovanni Gabrieli -- Edvard Grieg -- Franz Joseph Haydn -- Paul Hindemith -- Jacques Ibert -- Charles Ives -- Leon Kirchner -- Leo Kraft -- Ezra Laderman -- Witold Lutoslawski -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Olivier Messiaen -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Carl Nielsen -- Walter Piston -- Francis Poulenc -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Maurice Ravel -- Antonin Reicha -- George Rochberg -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Franz Schubert -- Gunther Schuller -- Robert Schumann -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Jean Sibelius -- Elie Siegmeister -- Bedřich Smetana -- Igor Stravinsky -- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Heitor Villa-Lobos -- Carl Maria von Weber -- Anton Webern -- Hugo Wolf.

ISBN

0396083854

LCCN

^^^85001469^/MN

OCLC

• 11622754
• SCSB-10325923

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library