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The social worlds of nineteenth-century chamber music : composers, consumers, communities / Marie Sumner Lott.
- Title
- The social worlds of nineteenth-century chamber music : composers, consumers, communities / Marie Sumner Lott.
- Author
- Sumner Lott, Marie
- Publication
- Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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- Description
- xvi, 307 pages : illustrations, music; 25 cm
- Summary
- Examines the music available to musical consumers in the nineteenth century, and what that music tells us about their tastes, priorities, and activities. Her social history of chamber music performance places the works of canonic composers such as Schubert, Brahms, and Dvooøák in relation to lesser-known but influential peers. The book explores the dynamic relationships among the active agents involved in the creation of Romantic music and shows how each influenced the others' choices in a rich, collaborative environment. In addition to documenting the ways companies acquired and marketed sheet music, Sumner Lott reveals how the publication and performance of chamber music differed from that of ephemeral piano and song genres or more monumental orchestral and operatic works.--Provided by publisher
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- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-304) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : String chamber music and Its audiences in the nineteenth century -- Publishing chamber music : archival evidence for chamber music production and consumption -- "Domesticating" the foreign in arrangements of operas, folk songs, and other works for chamber ensembles -- Music for men of leisure : an examination of the domestic string style -- Redefining the "progressive" style in responses to Beethoven's late quartets -- Creating "progressive" communities through programmatic chamber music -- Audience and style in Brahms's string chamber music -- The diversity of Dvořák's string quartet audiences -- Appendix 1. J. Strunz, string quartet transcription of no. 18, "Prière" (Prayer), from Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable -- Appendix 2. C. W. Henning, string quartet transcription of no. 8, "Leise, leise, fromme Weise" (Gently, gently, pious words), from Weber's Der Freischütz -- Appendix 3. M. Kässmayer, string quartet arrangement of "Mein Herz ist im Hochland" (My heart is in the highlands) from Deutsche Lieder, op. 14, no. 4.
- ISBN
- 9780252039225
- 025203922X
- LCCN
- ^^2015938565
- OCLC
- 893454473
- SCSB-9897287
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library