This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... I INTRODUCTION ROMANTICISM IN MUSIC / V OF THE * I UNIVERSITY 1 I --1 ISTORIANS of music are accus Htomed to speak of the first half or three-quarters of the nineteenth century as the Romantic 'Period in music, and of those composers who immediately follow Beethoven, including Schubert, Schuniaiin, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... I INTRODUCTION ROMANTICISM IN MUSIC / V OF THE * I UNIVERSITY 1 I --1 ISTORIANS of music are accus Htomed to speak of the first half or three-quarters of the nineteenth century as the Romantic 'Period in music, and of those composers who immediately follow Beethoven, including Schubert, Schuniaiin, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Chopin, Liszt, and some others, as the Romantic Composers. The word "romantic," as thus used, forms no doubt a convenient label; but if we attempt to explain its meaning, we find ourselves involved in several difficulties. Were there then no romanticists before Schubert? Have no composers written romantically since 1870? Such questions, arising at once, lead us inevitably to the more general inquiry, What is romanticism? In the broadest sense in which the word "romanticism" can be used, the sense in which t is taken, for example, by Pater in the Postscript of his "Appreciations," it seems to mean simply interest in novel and strange elements of artistic effect. "It is the addition of strangeness to beauty/ DEGREESays Pater, "that constitutes the romantic character in art; and the desire of beauty being a fixed element in every artistic organization, it is the addition of curiosity to this desire of beauty that constitutes the romantic temper." Romanticism is thus the innovating spirit, as opposed to the conserving spirit of classicism; romanticists appear in every age and school; and Stendhal is right in saying that "all good art was romantic in its day." It is interesting, in passing, to note the relation of this definition to the widely prevalent notion that romanticism is extravagant and lawless. To the mind wedded to tradition all novelty is extravagant; and since an artistic form is grasped only after considerable...
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Very good. Frontispiece and illustrated, musical examples. xi + 353 pages, small 8vo, gilt-decorated cloth (edge-worn). New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. A very good copy.
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Good. Cloth hardbound, clean unmarked text, 353 pp., good copy, slight rubbing/soil to cloth, some wear to tips and edges, some soil/discoloration to some pages, some minor pencil-notes to text.
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Fine. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book bound in a blue cloth, no dust jacket, 8vo, 353 pages. Frontis with additional illustrations, book in fine condition.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book bound in a light blue cloth, no dust jacket, 8vo, 353 pages, frontis with additional illustrations, near fine condition.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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