Fantasies of improvisation : free playing in nineteenth-century music
Gooley, Dana A. (Dana Andrew), 1969-2018
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This work is a history of keyboard improvisation in European music in the postclassical and romantic periods (c.1815-1870). Grounded in primary sources, it documents practices of improvisation on the piano and the organ, with a particular emphasis on free fantasies and other forms of free playing.
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Imprint:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Collation:
312 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780190633585 (hbk)
Dewey class:
781.36
Language:
English
BRN:
2048788