The free fantasia and the musical picturesque

The free fantasia and the musical picturesque / Annette Richards.

"This book explores the late eighteenth-century free fantasia and its relationship to the aesthetics of landscape and the picturesque. A crucial category across all the arts in the late eighteenth century, the picturesque has lost its currency in modern musical criticism, in spite of its rich p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richards, Annette (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series:New perspectives in music history and criticism.
Subjects:
Art and music.
Fantasia.
Picturesque, The.
Music > Europe > 18th century > History and criticism.
Music > Europe > 19th century > History and criticism.
fantasias (musical compositions)
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • Framing the musical picturesque
  • C.P.E. Bach and the landscapes of genius
  • The picturesque sketch and the interpretation of instrumental music
  • Haydn's humour, Bach's fantasy
  • Sentiment undone: solitude and the clavichord cult
  • Picturesque Beethoven and the veiled Isis.

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