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1 online resource (1245 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Cultural Influences; 1. The Building of Community through Choral Singing; 2. Vox Humana: Choral Voices in the Nineteenth-Century Symphony; 3. The Nineteenth-Century Opera Chorus; Part II: Selected Masterworks from the Choral-Orchestral Repertoire; 4. Masses and Requiems; Beethoven, Missa solemnis; Berlioz, Grande Messe des morts; Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem; Verdi, Messa da Requiem; Fauré, Requiem; 5. Works with Secular and Non-Liturgical Texts |
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Berlioz, La Damnation de FaustMendelssohn, Elijah; Dvořák, Stabat Mater; Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius; Mahler, Symphony No. 8; Part III: The Choral Repertoire Large and Small; Germany and Austria; 6. Choral Music and Choral Singing in Germany and Austria:An Overview; 7. Ludwig van Beethoven; 8. Fanny Hensel; 9. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; 10. Robert Schumann; 11. Anton Bruckner and the Austrian Choral Tradition: His Mass in F Minor; 12. Johannes Brahms; France; 13. Choral Music and Music-Making in France; 14. Luigi Cherubini and Augusta Holmès; 15. Hector Berlioz |
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16. Félicien David, Charles Gounod, and Jules Massenet17. Camille Saint-Saëns; 18. Gabriel Fauré; Italy; 19. A Tale of Survival: Choral Music in Italy; Northern Europe; 20. Britain and Ireland; 21. The Nordic World: Scandinavia and Finland; Eastern Europe; 22. Eastern Europe: Introductory Thoughts; 23. Poland; 24. The Czech Lands: Bohemia and Moravia; 25. Antonín Dvořák; 26. Hungary; 27. The Choral Music of Franz Liszt; 28. Russia; 29. Russian Choral Repertoire; The Iberian World; 30. The Philippines, Latin America, and Spain; North America; 31. The United States; Index |
| Summary |
Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is an in-depth examination of the rich repertoire of choral music and the cultural phenomenon of choral music making throughout the period. The book is divided into three main sections. The first details the attraction to choral singing and the ways it was linked to different parts of society, and to the role of choral voices in the two principal large-scale genres of the period: the symphony and opera. A second section highlights ten choral-orchestral masterworks that are a central part of the repertoire. The final section presents overview and focu |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Choral music -- 19th century
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Choral.
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Choral music
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136294105 |
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1136294104 |
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