Draws on philosophical, literary, political, and musical sources as well as contemporary accounts to trace the shift in the status of instrumental music and the attitudes toward listening in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Product Description: The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical and religious ideas. It is also clear that not only Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner were crucial role models for Mahler, but also the musical dramatist Wagner and the programmatic symphony composers Berlioz and Liszt...read more

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Product Description: Beethoven cast a looming shadow over the nineteenth century. For composers he was a model both to emulate and to overcome. "You have no idea how it feels," Brahms confided, "when one always hears such a giant marching behind one...read more

Product Description: Explores the styles, forms, and performance practices that characterized the symphonic repertoire from Schubert through early Mahler, during which time composers struck out in many directions to exploit the development of modern instruments with their extended ranges and colorful palette...read more

Product Description: Explores the styles, forms, and performance practices that characterized the symphonic repertoire from Schubert through early Mahler, during which time composers struck out in many directions to exploit the development of modern instruments with their extended ranges and colorful palette...read more