Description |
1 online resource |
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
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Improvisation (Music)
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2017050199 |
ISBN |
9780190633592 |
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019063359X |
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9780190633615 |
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0190633611 |
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