The New Oxford History of Music
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Romanticism--a concept more easily recognized than defined--dominated the artistic landscape of music from 1830-1890. Like the other volumes in the New Oxford History of Music series, this final volume to be published provides a detailed, scholarly critical survey of the music and composers of its period. Divided among different forms of music, the chapters, written by eminent scholars under the editorship of one of the most respected experts on nineteenth-century music, detail the work of Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Brahms, Berlioz, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, Gounod, Bizet, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Dvorak, Smetana, Fauré, Wolf, Puccini, Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss, César Franck, and Debussy.Reviews
"Splendid....Start reading anywhere, and if you are a lover of Romantic music, you will find it difficult to confine yourself to a few pages; the prospect keeps broadening out, fact, opinion, new insights, discoveries proliferating at a wonderful pace. Whether you look individual composers up in the index, or read the book chapter by chapter, you are likely to be as mesmerized as I."--Fanfare
"Complet[es] the most satisfying history of music on offer."--Musical Times
"With the publication of Romanticism (1830-1890), The New Oxford History of Music , a magnificent series in ten volumes, has been completed....Provides a detailed, critical survey of the music and composers of its epoch. The chapters, divided among different forms of music, are written with superb fluency and wide-ranging erudition by the most respectied experts on nineteenth-century music....The history of the period under question--with its brashness and exuberant virility on the one hand and its autumnal melancholy on the other--is satisfyingly and handsomely complete....It is a magnificent work, with intellectual vitality, sweep and imagination, calling for subsequent reading."--Choral Journal
"The book's emphasis on genre provides a very distinctive perspective for this period, different from the more usual composer-oriented approach....An excellent, concrete, and detailed account of the period....Highly recommended from lower-division undergraduate level onward."--Choice
