The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony
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The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony

  1. 470 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony

About this book

Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companion offers an accessible guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding this major genre of Western music, discussing an extensive variety of works from the eighteenth century to the present day. The book complements a detailed review of the symphony's history with focused analytical essays from leading scholars on the symphonic music of both mainstream composers, including Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and lesser-known figures, including Carter, Berio and Maxwell Davies. With chapters on a comprehensive range of topics, from the symphony's origins to the politics of its reception in the twentieth century, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the history, analysis and performance of the symphonic repertoire.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780521884983
eBook ISBN
9781107453319
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Tables and figures
  4. Musical examples
  5. Contributors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1: Introduction: understanding the symphony
  8. PART I Historical overview of the genre
  9. 2: The Viennese symphony 1750 to 1827
  10. 3: Other classical repertories
  11. 4: The symphony after Beethoven after Dahlhaus
  12. 5: The symphony since Mahler: national and international trends
  13. PART II Studies in symphonic analysis
  14. 6: Six great early symphonists
  15. 7: Harmonies and effects: Haydn and Mozart in parallel
  16. 8: Beethoven: structural principles and narrative strategies
  17. 9: Cyclical thematic processes in the nineteenth-century symphony
  18. 10: Tonal strategies in the nineteenth-century symphony
  19. 11 ‘Two-dimensional’ symphonic forms: Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony, before, and after
  20. 12 Symphony/antiphony: formal strategies in the twentieth-century symphony
  21. PART III Performance, reception and genre
  22. 13: The symphony and the classical orchestra
  23. 14: Beethoven’s shadow: the nineteenth century
  24. 15: The symphony as programme music
  25. 16: ‘Symphonies of the free spirit’: the Austro-German symphony in early Soviet Russia
  26. 17: The symphony in Britain: guardianship and renewal
  27. 18: The symphony, the modern orchestra and the performing canon
  28. Bibliography
  29. Index

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