Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music

ISBN-13: 9780415966504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 393 str.

Stephen Hefling; R. Larry Todd

Opis

In the days of tall ships, one dreaded foe was responsible for more deaths at sea than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses combined: Scurvy. Countless mariners suffered an agonizing death, which began with bleeding gums, wobbly teeth, and the opening of old wounds. Surgeon James Lind, Captain James Cook and physician Sir Gilbert Blane undertook to solve the riddle of Scurvy. Their achievements heralded a new age and cracked the greatest medical mystery of the Age of Sail.

Spis treści

CONTENTS Preface Contributors Acknowledgments 1. The Chamber Music of Beethoven 2. Schubert's Chamber Music 3. The Chamber Music of Spohr and Weber 4. The Chamber Music of Medelssohn 5. Beautiful and Abstruse Conversations: The Chamber Music of Schumann 6. Discourse and Allusion: The Chamber Music of Schumann 7. Chamber Music in France: From Cherubini to Debussy 8. The Chamber Music of Smetana and Dvorak 9. Fin de siecle Chamber Music and the Critique of Modernism Index

O autorze

Stephen Hefling