TY - BOOK AU - Longyear, Rey M. AU - ED - ED - ED - ED - SN - 136226973 SN - 2 PY - 1988///]46 CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ PB - Prentice Hall KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - History and criticism.;History and criticism KW - Music;Romanticism in music.;Music;Romanticism in music KW - 19th century;19th century20 KW - Music;19th century;History and criticism;Romanticism in music KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Romanticism and music. The historical context ; What is Romanticism? ; Can Romanticism be defined? ; Romantic writers and music ; Continuations of Romanticism : realism, naturalism, and symbolism ; The end of the century -- Beethoven and his predecessors. Precursors of Romanticism ; Ludwig van Beethoven : his apprenticeship ; Influences on Beethoven's first period ; Beethoven's first period ; Beethoven's second period ; Beethoven's final period ; Beethoven's legacy -- Beethoven's contemporaries. Jan Ladislas Dussek ; Johann Nepomuk Hummel ; Louis Spohr ; Carl Maria von Weber ; Franz Schubert ; Lesser composers, mostly pianists -- The German Romantic efflorescence. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy ; Robert Schumann -- The German Romantic legacy -- Italian and French Romanticism. Italian instrumental music to 1870 ; Italian opera to 1853 ; French operatic genres ; Fryderyk Chopin ; Hector Berlioz -- The music of the future. Ferenc Liszt ; Richard Wagner ; Other composers -- The rebirth of absolute music. Neoclassicism in nineteenth-century music ; Anton Bruckner ; Johannes Brahms ; The French musical renaissance -- Nineteenth-century nationalism in music. Russia ; Bohemia ; Scandinavia ; Hungary ; England ; United States -- The twilight of Romanticism. Italian opera after La Traviata ; Central Europe ; France -- Romantic musical styles. Elements of Romantic musical style ; The continuity of Romanticism in music -- Form in Romantic music. Romantic instrumental forms ; Romantic vocal forms -- Nineteenth-century musical Romanticism and its audience. Sociology of musical Romanticism ; Domestic music making ; Public concerts ; Subcultures of musical Romanticism ; Romantic performance practices; 5 ER -