The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque

ISBN-13: 9780521027533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str.

Annette Richards; Jeffrey Kallberg; Anthony Newcomb

Opis

This book brings together music and visual arts, especially the art of landscape gardening, in the context of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English and German culture. The aesthetic of the picturesque, derived from the controlled wilderness of the landscape garden, provided writers on music with a language in which to describe the musical genre of the free fantasia, and the picturesque emerges here as a vital means for understanding the fantastical elements in the music of C. P. E. Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven.