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The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms

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Grounded in knowledge of thousands of programs, this book examines how musical life in London, Leipzig, Vienna, Boston, and other cities underwent a fundamental transformation in relationship with movements in European politics. William Weber traces how musical taste evolved in European concert programs from 1750 to 1870, as separate worlds arose around classical music and popular songs. In 1780 a typical program accommodated a variety of tastes through a patterned 'miscellany' of genres, held together by diplomatic ...

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The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms 2009, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521124232

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