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Author Baron, John H.

Title Intimate music : a history of the idea of chamber music / John Herschel Baron
Published Stuyvesant, NY : Pendragon Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 489 pages) : illustrations
Series Pendragon Press musicological series
Pendragon Press musicological series
Contents The idea of chamber music -- Chamber music before Corelli. The canzona ; The fantasia ; Ricercari, capricci, and In Nomines ; The dances ; Variations ; The sinfonia ; The pre-Corelli sonata ; The early sonata north of the Alps ; The pre-Corelli suite ; Summary of chamber music before Corelli -- Chamber music of the high Baroque. Arcangelo Corelli ; Chamber music in Corelli's orbit ; The Venetian sonata 1700-1740: Vivaldi and Albinoni ; Late-Baroque chamber music in France ; English chamber music ca. 1690-1740 -- Georg Friedrich Handel ; The German school of sonata ca. 1680-1740 ; Johann Sebastian Bach -- 18th-century transition. The accompanied obligato keyboard sonata. Paris ; London ; Germany ; Vienna -- The piano trio ; The piano and violin sonata ; The piano quartet and quintet ; The early string quartet ; The string quintet ; The string trio and duet ; Wind chamber music in the 18th century ; Changing aesthetics of chamber music -- Classical chamber music: 1780-1827. The string quartet 1780-1827. Haydn ; Mozart ; Cambini and Boccherini ; Beethoven ; The string quartet ensemble ; Schubert -- The string quintet ; The piano trio ; The piano quartet and quintet ; The sonata ; The string trio ; The string duo ; Wind chamber music ; 18th-century chamber music and the dawn of the 19th century -- Romantic chamber music after Beethoven. Hausmusik before 1920 ; Art chamber music 1825-1850. Spohr ; Mendelssohn ; Schumann ; Germany ; England ; France ; Cherubini ; Onslow -- Art chamber music 1850-1897. France ; Italy ; England ; Germany and Austria ; Brahms ; Others in Germany and Austria -- Chamber music of the 19th century from other countries. Russia ; Bohemia ; Scandinavia ; Other European countries ; America -- Chamber music in the 20th century. Traditional genres of chamber music in the 20th century. Debussy and Ravel ; Bartok ; Schoenberg and disciples ; The neo-classicists: Stravinsky, Milhaud, and Hindemith ; Other nationalists: Janacek, Bloch, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev and Shostakovich ; English chamber music: Britten ; American chamber music in the 20th century -- New genres of 20th-century chamber music ; The performance ; The technological changes of the 20th century ; Final assessment
Summary This is the first comprehensive overview of instrumental chamber music from the 16th century to the present. There are comparisons of different genres, composers, and periods. Situations for chamber music at different moments in history are brought into a continuum, and all aspects of chamber music are placed into perspective. This book is chronologically organized at the most general level. Beyond that, national schools figure prominently, as well as genres and personalities. Throughout this book the composition of chamber music, the performance of chamber music, and the social, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions for chamber music have been considered per se and as they interact
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-470) and index
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Subject Chamber music -- History and criticism.
Chamber music
Kammermusik
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book