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The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque
Contributor(s): Richards, Annette (Author), Kallberg, Jeffrey (Editor), Newcomb, Anthony (Editor)
ISBN: 0521027535     ISBN-13: 9780521027533
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $62.69  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: November 2006
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Annotation: This book brings together music and visual arts, especially the art of landscape gardening, in the context of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English and German culture. The aesthetic of the picturesque, derived from the controlled wilderness of the landscape garden, provided writers on music with a language in which to describe the musical genre of the free fantasia, and the picturesque emerges here as a vital means for understanding the fantastical elements in the music of C. P. E. Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles - Classical
- Music | Musical Instruments - General
- Music | History & Criticism - General
Dewey: 784.189
LCCN: 2007274687
Series: New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6" W x 9" (0.89 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 18th Century