La música en el siglo XIX

by Walter Frisch

El presente libro se ocupa de la creación musical en uno de los periodos más fértiles y populares de su historia, el que va del Congreso de Viena en 1815 a la irrupción de la modernidad en los años noventa del siglo. A lo largo de sus capítulos, el autor traza una compleja red de relaciones en las que están implicados compositores, intérpretes, editores, tradiciones orales, el público (o, mejor, los públicos), ciudades y naciones.Entre los temas a los que dedica especial atención se cuentan la implicación de la clase media en el ámbito musical, el rico pero esquivo concepto de Romanticismo, el culto al virtuosismo interpretativo y el equilibrio, en continua transformación, entre intereses musicales y comerciales. Todo ello pone de relieve, frente a visiones reduccionistas y simplificadoras, la naturaleza poliédrica y la riqueza de análisis de una época sin la que no podríamos entender el modo en que hoy concebimos la práctica y el consumo de música.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction

336 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 31, 2012

Reviews

[Drunken_orangetree · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another in Norton's series of music history textbooks oriented to both music and the context--social and cultural--of that music. Walter Frisch is one of the outstanding scholars of the period and he brings an learned yet accessible approach to the subject.

Frisch assumes the ability to read music and a background in basic music theory, but there is plenty here for anyone interested in the subject.

[Jared Jones · Rating 3 out of 5]

This textbook (and Music History class) further deepened my love for music. It was over the course of this class that I deeply fell in love with Gustav Mahler's songs and symphonies. Please do yourself a favour and listen to Mahler's 2nd Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde (The song of the Earth). You will not be dissappointed.

[Sally Cathcart · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this text for my music history class. It went in more depth than the traditional Grout book on the Romantic period. I really enjoyed reading about the politics of the time period and also more about the lives of the composers. As a violinist, I would argue there is too much about opera and not enough about the symphonic history, but I still really enjoyed the book.

[Alan Murchie · Rating 4 out of 5]

An almost impossible task- and he pulls it off.

[Alex D]

I love you Dr. James Davis

[MaKenna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yes I am adding textbooks to my Goodreads list, haha. This one was actually very interesting and I read the entire thing. (I didn’t cheat this time ;))

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

This penultimate volume in the Western Music in Context series delves into the 19th century music world in Europe and the United States. Frisch manages to pack a lot into less than 250 pages while still giving fresh perspectives on the musical culture of the era. I was especially impressed with his ability to really investigate the changes in music and how those changes interacted with all sorts of different aspects of his era. I really liked the way he connected socio-economic changes, and especially the solidification of the middle class, with shifts in the way music was made and listened to. The exploration of the effect of technological advances on music was good, too. And it made me very happy that Frisch gave ample coverage to Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Amy Beach.