| The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque Contributor(s): Richards, Annette (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521640776 ISBN-13: 9780521640770 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $125.40 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Classical - Music | Musical Instruments - General - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 784.189 |
| LCCN: 00028944 |
| Series: New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.05 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |