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Programme Music in the Last Four Centuries
Frederick Niecks
History and criticism / programme music · 1907 · English
Frederick Niecks. Programme Music in the Last Four Centuries: A Contribution to the History of Musical Expression. London / New York: Novello and Company, Limited / The H. W. Gray Co., 1907.
Niecks surveys the long history of descriptive and programmatic music from early examples to Beethoven, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Strauss and Russian repertory. The book is substantial both historically and conceptually: it discusses imitation, poetic titles, narrative suggestion, symphonic poems and the debate between “absolute” and programme music, preserving…
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