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Music in European Capitals
Daniel Heartz
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Description for Music in European Capitals
hardcover. A glittering cultural tour of Europe's major capitals during a period of intense musical change. Num Pages: 1104 pages, 12 colour pl 116 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3JF; AVGC4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 188 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1720.
This volume continues the study of the eighteenth century begun in Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School 1740–1780 (1995) by focusing on the capital cities other than Vienna that were most important in the creation and diffusion of new music. It tells of events in Naples, where Vinci and Pergolesi went beyond their pre-1720 models to cultivate opera in a simpler, more direct manner, soon after christened the galant style. No less central was Venice, where Vivaldi perfected the concerto, on which were patterned the early symphonies and the newer kind of sonata. Dresden profited first from all these achievements ... Read more
This volume continues the study of the eighteenth century begun in Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School 1740–1780 (1995) by focusing on the capital cities other than Vienna that were most important in the creation and diffusion of new music. It tells of events in Naples, where Vinci and Pergolesi went beyond their pre-1720 models to cultivate opera in a simpler, more direct manner, soon after christened the galant style. No less central was Venice, where Vivaldi perfected the concerto, on which were patterned the early symphonies and the newer kind of sonata. Dresden profited first from all these achievements ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
1104
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1104
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393050806
SKU
V9780393050806
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About Daniel Heartz
Daniel Heartz, Ph.D., professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships, two ASCAP–Deems Taylor Awards, and the Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society. He lives in Berkeley, California.
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