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The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume III, Part B
The European Symphony from ca. 1800 to ca. 1930: Great Britain, Russia, and France
Published by: Indiana University Press
864 Pages, 94 b&w illus., 236 music exx.
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The second part of the third volume to appear in the magnum opus of A. Peter Brown continues the geographical tour of the mid-19th-to early-20th-century symphony begun in Vol. 3A. Brown discusses works from England, Russia, and France—including those by Potter, Bennett, Stanford, Elgar, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Gounod, Bizet, Franck, Dukas, and many others. A single source provides a detailed analysis of stylistic traits and background material on the composition and performances of these masterpieces.
Brown's series synthesizes an enormous amount of scholarly literature in a wide range of languages. It presents current overviews of the status of research, discusses important former or remaining problems of attribution, illuminates the style of specific works and their contexts, and samples early writings on their reception. There are overviews of the symphony as a genre and in-depth analysis of particular aspects of the symphony (such as composer, period, or instrument). No other book or series of books allows for the in-depth musical analysis and historical context that Brown provides in each volume of The Symphonic Repertoire.
VOLUME III PART B: GREAT BRITAIN, RUSSIA, FRANCE
Section Four — The British Symphony
Chapter Fourteen — The Symphony in Great Britain: From Potter to Elgar
The Symphonic Milieu from ca. 1800 to ca. 1850
Cipriani Potter
William Sterndale Bennett
The Symphonic Milieu from ca. 1850 to 1912
Charles Villiers Stanford
C. Hubert H. Parry
Edward Elgar
Conclusion: The British Symphony
Bibliographic Overview
Section Five — The Russian Symphony
Chapter Fifteen — The Symphony in Russia: From Glinka to Rachmaninoff
The Symphonic Milieu
The Seeds of the Russian Symphony: Mikhail Glinka
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Aleksandr Borodin
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Mily Balakirev
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov
Serge Rachmaninoff
Conclusion: What Makes a Symphony Russian?
Bibliographic Overview
Section Six — The French Symphony
Chapter Sixteen — The French Symphony after Berlioz: From the Second Empire to the First World War
Introduction: The Symphony in Mid-Century
Charles Gounod
Georges Bizet
Camille Saint-Saëns
Between Saint-Saëns's Second and Third: The "Revival" of Instrumental Music after 1870
Camille Saint-Saëns (continued)
French Symphonies after 1885: Classical and Romantic Camps
Édouard Lalo
César Franck
Ernest Chausson
Paul Dukas
Vincent d'Indy
Between the Mountain Air and d'Indy's Second: The Symphony at the Turn of the Century
Vincent d'Indy (continued)
Guy Ropartz
Charles Tournemire
Three Symphonists from the Conservatoire
Albéric Magnard
Conclusion
Bibliographic Overview
Index
A. Peter Brown (1943–2003) was Professor of Musicology and Department Chair at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He authored more than 80 published articles and reviews and was known for his scholarship on Joseph Haydn.
"This third volume of a set that, completed, would be the most exhaustive study to date of the symphony in the Western tradition shares with its predecessors—The First Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony (CH, Apr'03, 40-4510), The Second Golden Age . . . (CH, Mar'04, 41-3953)—a brilliance of detail. It is divided into two parts: all of part A and two-thirds of part B are the work of the late Brown, whose untimely death leaves the fate of the volumes that would complete the survey uncertain. Like earlier volumes, this one includes complete analyses of each symphony, details of first performances, and rich bibliographic resources. Brown discusses formal and technical detail, placing each work in context. He analyzes the works of Franz Berwald, Joseph Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and other relative unknowns, as well as calling the reader's attention to, for example, the influence of Felix Mendelssohn as a mentor and Sergei Rachmaninoff as a contrapuntalist.Written with both scholarly appeal and wry good humor, this volume uncovers a rich world of previously underappreciated masterpieces. Serious students of music—including conductors, performers, and avid listeners—will find this both informative and readable. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers."
~M. Neil, Augustana College, Choice
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~M. Neil, Augustana College, ChoiceChoice
"This work is highly recommended for all larger public and academic libraries, and smaller libraries with specialized music collections. . . . conductors, musicologists, and others connected with symphonic music would certainly benefit from having these volumes in their libraries."
~Robert L. Wick, American Reference Books Annual
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~M. Neil, Augustana College
"A surprising aspect of the 20th century musical historiography is that some of the central repertoires of Western art music remain unexplored in broad-based treatments. . .Fortunately, within the 1980s and 1990s a sufficient number of the more obscure symphonies has been made available in editions and reprints so that a measured and reasonable overview can be constructed."
~from the introduction