| The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner Contributor(s): Vande Moortele, Steven (Author) |
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ISBN: 131661509X ISBN-13: 9781316615096 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Opera - Music | Musical Instruments - General |
| Dewey: 784.189 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 7.44" W x 9.69" (1.20 lbs) 303 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this book Steven Vande Moortele offers a comprehensive account of operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850. Discussing a broad range of works by German, French, and Italian composers, it is at once an investigation of the Romantic overture within the context of mid-nineteenth century musical culture and an analytical study that focuses on aspects of large-scale formal organization in the overture genre. While the book draws extensively upon the recent achievements of the 'new Formenlehre', it does not use the overture merely as a vehicle for a theory of romantic form, but rather takes an analytical approach that engages with individual works in their generic context. |
Contributor Bio(s): Vande Moortele, Steven: - Steven Vande Moortele is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Toronto. His research interests include theories of musical form, the analysis of large-scale instrumental music from the late-eighteenth to the early-twentieth century, and the works of Richard Wagner and Arnold Schoenberg. He is the author of Two-Dimensional Sonata Form: Form and Cycle in Single-Movement Instrumental Works by Liszt, Strauss, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky (2009) and co-editor of Formal Functions in Perspective: Essays on Musical Form from Haydn to Adorno (with Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers and Nathan John Martin, 2015). From 2013 to 2016, he was also co-editor of the journal Music Theory and Analysis (MTA). |