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The Necessity of Music: Variations on a German Theme
Celia Applegate
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Hardback. In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Series: German & European Studies. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AB; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of composers and their work Applegate illuminates the myriad ways in which music is integral to German social life. Musical life reflected the polycentric nature of German social and political life, even while it provided many opportunities to experience what was common among Germans. Musical activities also allowed Germans, whether professional musicians, dedicated amateurs, or simply listeners, to participate in European culture. Applegate's original and fascinating analysis of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, ... Read more
In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of composers and their work Applegate illuminates the myriad ways in which music is integral to German social life. Musical life reflected the polycentric nature of German social and political life, even while it provided many opportunities to experience what was common among Germans. Musical activities also allowed Germans, whether professional musicians, dedicated amateurs, or simply listeners, to participate in European culture. Applegate's original and fascinating analysis of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
German & European Studies
Condition
New
Weight
1g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781487500689
SKU
V9781487500689
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About Celia Applegate
Celia Applegate is the William R. Kenan Jr. Chair in History at Vanderbilt University
Reviews for The Necessity of Music: Variations on a German Theme
[Applegate] combines the interpretive tools of both historian and musicologist - methodologically, she writes as both, and the readership of this book should encompass both - and she forges an interpretive approach that draws the familiar and the unexpected together. - Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago - American Historical Review, Feb 2019