Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France

Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France

Author: Katharine Ellis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-09-14

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 9780521454438

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In particular, Dr Ellis considers the music journalism of the Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris, the single most important specialist periodical of the mid nineteenth century, explaining how French music criticism was influenced by aesthetic and philosophical movements.


Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France

Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France

Author: Katharine Ellis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-05-31

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780521035897

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This book focuses on the musical writings in the daily and periodical press in France during the nineteenth century. It covers the criticism of a wide range of Western music, explaining how composers such as Bach and Beethoven secured a permanent place in the repertory. Dr. Ellis analyzes the process of canon formation, the development of French musicology and the increasing sensitivity of critics to questions of performance practice. She also examines the inevitable conflict between commercial interest and aesthetic integrity.


Interpreting the Musical Past : Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France

Interpreting the Musical Past : Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France

Author: University of London Katharine Ellis Reader in Music Royal Holloway

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005-08-24

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0199710856

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This study of the French early music revival gives us a vivid sense of how music's cultural meanings were contested in the nineteenth century. It surveys the main patterns of revivalist activity while also providing in-depth studies of repertories stretching from Adam de la Halle to Rameau.


Nineteenth-Century Music

Nineteenth-Century Music

Author: Carl Dahlhaus

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780520076440

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This magnificent survey of the most popular period in music history is an extended essay embracing music, aesthetics, social history, and politics, by one of the keenest minds writing on music in the world today. Dahlhaus organizes his book around "watershed" years--for example, 1830, the year of the July Revolution in France, and around which coalesce the "demise of the age of art" proclaimed by Heine, the musical consequences of the deaths of Beethoven and Schubert, the simultaneous and dramatic appearance of Chopin and Liszt, Berlioz and Meyerbeer, and Schumann and Mendelssohn. But he keeps us constantly on guard against generalization and clich . Cherished concepts like Romanticism, tradition, nationalism vs. universality, the musical culture of the bourgeoisie, are put to pointed reevaluation. Always demonstrating the interest in socio-historical influences that is the hallmark of his work, Dahlhaus reminds us of the contradictions, interrelationships, psychological nuances, and riches of musical character and musical life. Nineteenth-Century Music contains 90 illustrations, the collected captions of which come close to providing a summary of the work and the author's methods. Technical language is kept to a minimum, but while remaining accessible, Dahlhaus challenges, braces, and excites. This is a landmark study that no one seriously interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture will be able to ignore.


The Regulation and Reform of Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century England

The Regulation and Reform of Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century England

Author: Paul Watt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1351974009

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Music criticism in England underwent profound change from the 1880s to the 1920s. It gave rise to ‘New criticism’ that aimed to be rational, impartial and intellectually authoritative. It was a break from the criticism of old: the work of the opinionated journalist who wrote descriptive concert reviews with invective, cliché, bias and bombast. Critics such as Ernest Newman (1868–1959), John F. Runciman (1866–1916) and Michel D. Calvocoressi (1877–1944) fostered this new school and wrote extensively of their aspirations for musical criticism in their own times and for the future. This book charts the genesis of this new wave of musical criticism that sought to regulate and reform the profession of music critic. Alongside the establishment of principles, training manuals and schools for critics, hundreds of journal articles and dozens of books were written that encouraged new criticism, which also had a bearing on scholarly writing in biography, aesthetics and history. The Regulation and Reform of Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century England considers the influence and advocacy of individual critics and the role that institutions, such as the Musical Association and the Musical Times, played in this period of change. The book also explores the impact that French and German writers had on their English counterparts, demonstrating the internationalization of critical thought of the period.


Nineteenth-Century Music

Nineteenth-Century Music

Author: Bennett Zon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1351556304

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This selection of essays represents a wide cross-section of the papers given at the Tenth International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music held at the University of Bristol in 1998. Sections include thematic groupings of work on musical meaning, Wagner, Liszt, musical culture in France, music and nation, and women and music.


French Art Songs of the Nineteenth Century

French Art Songs of the Nineteenth Century

Author: Philip Hale

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1978-01-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0486236803

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The lyric art song, in which the piano plays as large a part as the vocal melody, is one of the characteristic products of the 19th century. This collection of 39 songs from the romantic period spotlights 18 composers: Berlioz, Chausson, Debussy (6 songs), Gounod, Massenet, Thomas, and more. For high voice. French text, English singing translations.


Music, Travel, and Imperial Encounter in 19th-Century France

Music, Travel, and Imperial Encounter in 19th-Century France

Author: Ruth Rosenberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-19

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 131767796X

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This book considers the activities and writings of early song collectors and proto-ethnomusicologists, memoirists, and other "musical travelers" in 19th-century France. Each of the book’s discrete but interrelated chapters is devoted to a different geographic and discursive site of empire, examining French representations of musical encounters in North America, the Middle East, as well as in contested areas within the borders of metropolitan France. Rosenberg highlights intersections between an emergent ethnographie musicale in France and narratives of musical encounter found in French travel literature, connecting both phenomena to France’s imperial aspirations and nationalist anxieties in the period from the Revolution to the late-nineteenth century. It is therefore an excellent research tool for scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, musicology, cultural studies, literary history, and postcolonial studies.


The Cambridge History of Music Criticism

The Cambridge History of Music Criticism

Author: Christopher Dingle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-12-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781108730549

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Music criticism has played a fundamental and influential role throughout music history, with numerous composers such as Berlioz, Schumann, and Wagner, as well as many contemporary musicians, also maintaining careers as writers and critics. The Cambridge History of Music Criticism goes beyond these better-known accounts, reaching back to medieval times, expanding the geographical reach both within and beyond Europe, and including key issues such as women and criticism of recordings, as well as the story of criticism in jazz, popular music and world music. Drawing on a blend of established and talented young scholars, this is the first substantial historical survey of music criticism and critics, bringing unprecedented scope to a rapidly expanding area of musicological research. An indispensable point of reference, The Cambridge History of Music Criticism provides a broad historical overview of the field while also addressing specific issues and events.


Realism in Nineteenth-Century Music

Realism in Nineteenth-Century Music

Author: Carl Dahlhaus

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1985-06-13

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780521261159

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The music of the nineteenth century was - and still is - thought of as a 'romantic' art, whereas the main current of the literature and fine arts of the age was 'realist' from about 1830. Yet some works are consistently described as 'realistic': Nusorgsky's Boris and Bizet's Carmen are only the most frequently cited examples. Professor Dahlhaus sets out the criteria of realism, with particular reference to French and German theorists and examines the extent to which they apply to music too. While his findings do not reverse the verdict that the music of the age was in general romantic, he demonstrates that musical realism consists in much more than imitation of natural sounds or tone-painting. The notes are revised here for the English-speaking reader.