Author : Donna Marie Di Grazia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 0415988527
Book Description
Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is a collection of essays studying choral music making as a cultural phenomenon, one that had an impact on multiple parts of society. Rather than merely offering a collection of raw descriptions of works, the contributors focus their discussions on what these pieces reveal about their composers as craftsmen/women. Major works as well as other equally rich parts of the repertoire are discussed, including smaller choral works and contributions by composers such as Fanny Mendelssohn, Amy Beach, Charles Stanford,