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Experiencing the Violin Concerto
A Listener's Companion
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2016
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Since the eighteenth century, violin concertos have provided a showcase for dramatic interplay between a soloist’s virtuosity and the blended sonority of an orchestra’s many instruments. Using this genre to showcase skill and ingenuity, composers cemented the violin concerto as a key genre of classical music and gifted our ears with such timeless masterpieces as Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
In Experiencing the Violin Concerto, Franco Sciannameo draws on his years of scholarship and violin performance to trace the genre through Baroque, Classical, and modern periods. Along the way, he explores the social and personal histories of composers, and the fabulous virtuosi who performed concertos, and audiences they conquered worldwide. Inviting readers to consider not only the components of the music but also the power of perception and experience, Sciannameo recreates the atmosphere of a live performance as he paints a narrative history of technique and innovation.
Experiencing the Violin Concerto uses descriptions in place of technical jargon to make the world of classical music accessible to amateur music lovers. As part of the Listener’s Companion series, the volume gives readers an enhanced experience of key works by investigating the environments in which the works were written and first performed as well as those in which they are enjoyed today.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8885-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8886-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
185
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Contents No access
Series Editor’s Foreword No access
Timeline No access
Introduction No access
1 In the Baroque No access Pages 1 - 20
2 Mozart—Haydn—Brunetti—Tomasini No access Pages 21 - 36
3 Viotti and Beethoven No access Pages 37 - 46
4 The Meteoric Paganini and His Epigones No access Pages 47 - 58
5 At the Heart of German Romanticism No access Pages 59 - 74
6 Brahms’s Violin Concerto and the End of an Era No access Pages 75 - 94
7 In the After-Brahms: Monsters and Leprechauns No access Pages 95 - 114
8 Pillars of Modernism No access Pages 115 - 136
9 Barber and Korngold, Shostakovich and . . . Schoenberg No access Pages 137 - 152
10 Music without Anxieties No access Pages 153 - 170
Notes No access Pages 171 - 172
Selected Reading No access Pages 173 - 174
Selected Listening No access Pages 175 - 176
Index of Names No access Pages 177 - 184
About the Author No access Pages 185 - 185
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