Helpful Call Numbers / Suggested Books
ML 196 -- Music History and Criticism, 1800-1900
ML 197 -- Music History and Criticism, 1900-
ML 270 - ML 270.9 -- Music History and Criticism by region, France
ML 410 -- Biographies of composers (Debussy, etc.) in alphabetical order
ML 410 .D28 C184 -- Cahiers Debussy (Journal in French) 1974-present
ML 497 -- Instruments and Instrumental Music, France
Use back-of-the-book INDEXES to search for "Impressionism" or "French Impressionism"
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The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music
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This comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field. Essays investigate the intellectual and socio-political history of the time, and examine topics such as nations and nationalism, the emergent concept of an avant garde, and musical styles and languages at the turn of the century. Contains detailed chronology, and extensive glossaries.
Call Number: ML 196 .C35 S35 2002 (Reference collection)ISBN: 0521590175Publication Date: 2001-12-03 -
The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music
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At the beginning of the twentieth century 'music' meant the 'art' tradition of Western Europe and North America; by the end of the century that was just one tradition among many. Written by a group of experts in the field, this book surveys what happened to the Western 'art' tradition alongside the development of jazz, popular music, and world music, linking the history of music with that of its social contexts.
Call Number: ML 197 .C34 C66 2004 (Reference collection)ISBN: 0521662567Publication Date: 2004-08-05 -
Impressionism in Music
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A study of those who wrote impressionistic music per se, and does not include those who used impressionistic techniques.
Call Number: ML 197 .P26ISBN: 068413568XPublication Date: 1974-01-01 -
The Cambridge Companion to French Music
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This accessible Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the music of France from the early middle ages to the present day. With chapters on a range of music genres, internationally renowned authors provide a chronological history of music-making in France and analyse the key themes and topics.
Call Number: ML 270 .C36 T74 2015ISBN: 9780521701761Publication Date: 2015-02-19 -
Grandeur et Finesse
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Due to its plethora of concert halls, publishing houses and piano factories, Paris was one of the leading European capitals of nineteenth-century piano music, able to attract the greatest interpreters of the bravura tradition. The present book takes as its subject the significance and ouput of the two-composer-pianists mentioned in the title, approaching them from historical, analytical and aesthetical points of view. In so doing the book encompasses many aspects of the Parisian musical scene in which the two composers were involved or to which they were in some way connected.
Call Number: ML 270.8 .P2 G73 2013ISBN: 9782503548845Publication Date: 2013-06-04 -
Nineteenth-Century Music
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Provides a guide to the basic literature of European art music from which we still draw the majority of our repertory in modern concert halls and opera theaters. The study explores standard works by composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, Rossini, Bellini, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Berlioz, Wagner, Verdi, Bizet, Brahms, Strauss, Franck, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Mahler, and Puccini, tracing the various artistic threads woven through Western music between 1800 and 1900.
Call Number: ML 196 .F56 2002ISBN: 0139271791Publication Date: 2001-08-31
