Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music

by John Michael Cooper, Randy Kinnett (With), Megan Marie McCarty (With)

Overview

Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, Second Edition covers the persons, ideas, practices, and works that made up the worlds of Western music during the long 19th century (ca. 1780–1918). It’s the first book to recognize that Romantic music was very nearly a global phenomenon. It includes more women, more Black musicians and other musicians of color, and more exponents of musical Romanticism from Central and South America as well as Central and Eastern Europe than any other single-volume study of Romantic music—thus challenging the conventional hegemony of musical Romanticisms by men and by Western European nations. This book includes entries on topics including anti-Semitism, sexism, and racism that were pervasive and defining to the worlds of musical Romanticism but are rarely addressed in general studies of that subject. It includes Romantic musicians who were not primarily composers, as well as topics such as the Haitian Revolution, spirituals, and ragtime that were more important for music in the long 19th century than is generally acknowledged. The result is an expansive, inclusive, diverse, and more richly textured portrayal of Romantic music than is elsewhere available.

Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, an extensive bibliography, and a dictionary section with more than 600 cross-referenced entries on traditions, famous pieces, persons, places, technical terms, and institutions of Romantic music. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Romantic music.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538157527
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/02/2024
Series:	Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	846
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

John Michael Cooper is professor of Music at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. He is the editor of numerous scholarly editions of music by Margaret Bonds, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and Florence B. Price, and author of books published by Rowman & Littlefield, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, and University of Rochester Press, as well as of articles on topics ranging from performance practice through sociology and aesthetics of music in the mid-twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Preface

Reader’s Notes

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Chronology

Introduction

THE DICTIONARY

Bibliography

About the Authors

Editorial Reviews

Beginning in the late eighteenth century and lasting well into the 1850s, Romanticism as a philosophical and artistic movement embraced the awakening of modernism while at the same time reinterpreting the classical tradition that came before it. Many of the composers and musicians we associate with the nineteenth century find their roots in romanticism. This work, by a professor of music noted for his work in the artistic period, has a lengthy introduction discussing the roots, changes, and influences on the future that Romanticism brought to the world. The major portion of the work is an alphabetically arranged listing of composers and musicians, instrument makers, patrons and publishers, specific works and significant events associated with Romanticism. Each entry is from a half-page to one and one-half pages in length. In the case of individuals birth and death dates are given where known. Each entry discusses the importance to the Romantic idea with bold typeface referencing other topics in the dictionary. An extensive bibliography for further reading and research completes the volume.. . .This volume will find ready use in music and music history collections. Well bound in hardcover format and with its easy to use alphabetic format, the work should stand up to years of use in the library setting. Any library with collecting interests in the music, arts, philosophy, or the history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries will find this a useful addition.

American Reference Books Annual

Cooper offers a handy one-volume work covering composers, genres, styles, and sociopolitical activities associated with the late 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. One of some 70 titles in the 'Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts' series, it features more than 500 alphabetically arranged entries. This hefty volume includes illustrative material where pertinent, a useful list of acronyms and abbreviations, and cross-referencing in each individual entry (via terms printed in boldface the first time they appear). Prior to the introduction, readers will find a useful year-by-year chronology covering major events from the beginning of the French Revolution to the start of WW I. Entries contain brief descriptions of landmark events ranging in scope from political affairs (e.g., Washington's election as the first US president, Napoleon becoming president of the Italian Republic, and the Mexican War of Independence) to the publication and performance of major musical works (e.g., Rossini's Guillaume Tell; Haydn's Symphony no. 92; and Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, K. 581). Selected source-critical series of editions are included near the back. Primary sources (e.g., collections, anthologies, and treatises) and surveys of 19th-century music are provided, as are works on aesthetics, genre, harmony and counterpoint, and performance practice. Also included is a section pertaining to studies on individual composers. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.

Choice Reviews

This volume offers hundreds of entries for Romantic period composers, performers, styles, and other subjects and terms. Many appear in other reference works, most notably New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, but many are unique to this one. The major difference is that the authors here present entries in context with regard to specific styles, customs, and thinking of the Romantic period—the so called long nineteenth century. For example, entries such as String quartets are discussed in terms of their nineteenth-century form, and eighteenth-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s entry delves into how he and his music were viewed throughout the 100 years after his death. Recommended for most public and academic libraries.

Booklist

Cooper offers a handy one-volume work covering composers, genres, styles, and sociopolitical activities associated with the late 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. One of some 70 titles in the 'Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts' series, it features more than 500 alphabetically arranged entries. This hefty volume includes illustrative material where pertinent, a useful list of acronyms and abbreviations, and cross-referencing in each individual entry (via terms printed in boldface the first time they appear). Prior to the introduction, readers will find a useful year-by-year chronology covering major events from the beginning of the French Revolution to the start of WW I. Entries contain brief descriptions of landmark events ranging in scope from political affairs (e.g., Washington's election as the first US president, Napoleon becoming president of the Italian Republic, and the Mexican War of Independence) to the publication and performance of major musical works (e.g., Rossini's Guillaume Tell; Haydn's Symphony no. 92; and Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, K. 581). Selected source-critical series of editions are included near the back. Primary sources (e.g., collections, anthologies, and treatises) and surveys of 19th-century music are provided, as are works on aesthetics, genre, harmony and counterpoint, and performance practice. Also included is a section pertaining to studies on individual composers. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.

Choice

Cooper offers a handy one-volume work covering composers, genres, styles, and sociopolitical activities associated with the late 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. One of some 70 titles in the 'Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts' series, it features more than 500 alphabetically arranged entries. This hefty volume includes illustrative material where pertinent, a useful list of acronyms and abbreviations, and cross-referencing in each individual entry (via terms printed in boldface the first time they appear). Prior to the introduction, readers will find a useful year-by-year chronology covering major events from the beginning of the French Revolution to the start of WW I. Entries contain brief descriptions of landmark events ranging in scope from political affairs (e.g., Washington's election as the first US president, Napoleon becoming president of the Italian Republic, and the Mexican War of Independence) to the publication and performance of major musical works (e.g., Rossini's Guillaume Tell; Haydn's Symphony no. 92; and Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, K. 581). Selected source-critical series of editions are included near the back. Primary sources (e.g., collections, anthologies, and treatises) and surveys of 19th-century music are provided, as are works on aesthetics, genre, harmony and counterpoint, and performance practice. Also included is a section pertaining to studies on individual composers. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.

CHOICE

This volume offers hundreds of entries for Romantic period composers, performers, styles, and other subjects and terms. Many appear in other reference works, most notably New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, but many are unique to this one. The major difference is that the authors here present entries in context with regard to specific styles, customs, and thinking of the Romantic period—the so called long nineteenth century. For example, entries such as String quartets are discussed in terms of their nineteenth-century form, and eighteenth-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s entry delves into how he and his music were viewed throughout the 100 years after his death. Recommended for most public and academic libraries.

Booklist