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Author Gooley, Dana A. (Dana Andrew), 1969- author.

Title Fantasies of improvisation : free playing in nineteenth-century music / Dana Gooley
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

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Contents Prelude: The virtue of improvisation -- 1. The school of Abbé Vogler : Weber and Meyerbeer -- 2. The Kapellmeister network and the performance of community : Hummel, Moscheles, and Mendelssohn -- 3. Carl Loewe's performative romanticism -- 4. Schumann and the economization of musical labor -- 5. Liszt and the romantic rhetoric of improvisation -- 6. Improvisatoriness : the regime of the improvisation imaginary -- Postlude: Improvisation and utopia
Summary The first history of keyboard improvisation in European music from the time of Beethoven through the later nineteenth century, Dana Gooley's Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music describes the motives, intentions, and musical styles of the nineteenth century's leading improvisers, and traces the evolution of the performance practice into a glorified ideal
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 05, 2018)
Subject Improvisation (Music) -- History -- 19th century
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Improvisation (Music)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017050199
ISBN 9780190633592
019063359X
9780190633615
0190633611