Experiencing the violin concerto : a listener's companion /
Sciannameo, Franco,
Experiencing the violin concerto : a listener's companion / Franco Sciannameo. - xviii, 185 pages ; 24 cm. - The listener's companion . - Listener's companion. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.
In the Baroque : Vivaldi's Four seasons and Bach's four keyboards -- Mozart-Haydn-Brunetti-Tomasini -- Viotti and Beethoven -- The meteoric Paganini and his epigones -- At the heart of German Romanticism : Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Bruch -- Brahms's Violin concerto and the end of an era -- In the after-Brahms : monsters and leprechauns -- Pillars of Modernism : Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Berg, and Bart�ok -- Barber and Korngold, Shostakovich and... Schoenberg -- Music without anxieties.
Explores the violin concerto from Vivaldi to Bart�ok and beyond, the social and personal histories of unforgettable virtuosi, the wonderful instruments they played, and the audiences they conquered worldwide.
9780810888852 0810888858
Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 4501 Forbes Blvd Ste 200, Lanham, MD, USA, 20706 SAN 253-2387
2016005006
Concertos (Violin)--History and criticism.
ML 1263 / .S53 2016
Experiencing the violin concerto : a listener's companion / Franco Sciannameo. - xviii, 185 pages ; 24 cm. - The listener's companion . - Listener's companion. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.
In the Baroque : Vivaldi's Four seasons and Bach's four keyboards -- Mozart-Haydn-Brunetti-Tomasini -- Viotti and Beethoven -- The meteoric Paganini and his epigones -- At the heart of German Romanticism : Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Bruch -- Brahms's Violin concerto and the end of an era -- In the after-Brahms : monsters and leprechauns -- Pillars of Modernism : Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Berg, and Bart�ok -- Barber and Korngold, Shostakovich and... Schoenberg -- Music without anxieties.
Explores the violin concerto from Vivaldi to Bart�ok and beyond, the social and personal histories of unforgettable virtuosi, the wonderful instruments they played, and the audiences they conquered worldwide.
9780810888852 0810888858
Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 4501 Forbes Blvd Ste 200, Lanham, MD, USA, 20706 SAN 253-2387
2016005006
Concertos (Violin)--History and criticism.
ML 1263 / .S53 2016