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Intimate music: a history of the idea of chamber music
ISBN: 9781576470183
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / Pendragon Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: Music & Musicology;

This is the first comprehensive overview of instrumental chamber music from the16th century to the present. There are comparisons of different genres, composers, and periods.Situations for chamber music at different moments in history are brought into a continuum, and all aspects of chamber music are placed into perspective. A History of the Idea of Chamber Music is chronologically organized at the most general level. Beyond that, national schools figure prominently, as well as genres and personalities. Throughout this book the composition of chamber music, the performance of chamber music, and the social, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions for chamber music have been considered per se and as they interact.