Classical music : a concise history from Gluck to Beethoven

Classical music : a concise history from Gluck to Beethoven / Julian Rushton.

Author/creator	Rushton, Julian
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, ©1986.
Description	192 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Subject(s)	Music--18th century --History and criticism. Music--19th century --History and criticism. Classicism in music.

Series	The world of art World of art. ^A222346
Contents	Classicism and its background -- Italian opera and the early symphony -- Other operatic traditions; operatic form -- Classical opera at its height -- Instrumental music: its uses, its resources, its meaning -- Keyboard music and the sonata principle -- The principal genres of instrumental music to c. 1800 -- Religious music in a secular age -- Revolution and Romanticism in opera -- Song -- Instrumental music in the 'Age of Beethoven' -- Late Beethoven.
Abstract	An account of the classical era's musical history from 1750 to 1830.
Local note	Little-261206
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-187) and index.
LCCN	86050223
ISBN	0500202109 (pbk.) :

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Music	Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk	ML195.R87 C5 1986	✔ Available	Place Hold