Book Review
Nov. 21st, 2014 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariMusic in the Nineteenth Century
by Walter Frisch
This penultimate volume in the Western Music in Context series delves into the 19th century music world in Europe and the United States. Frisch manages to pack a lot into less than 250 pages while still giving fresh perspectives on the musical culture of the era. I was especially impressed with his ability to really investigate the changes in music and how those changes interacted with all sorts of different aspects of his era. I really liked the way he connected socio-economic changes, and especially the solidification of the middle class, with shifts in the way music was made and listened to. The exploration of the effect of technological advances on music was good, too. And it made me very happy that Frisch gave ample coverage to Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Amy Beach.
by Walter Frisch
This penultimate volume in the Western Music in Context series delves into the 19th century music world in Europe and the United States. Frisch manages to pack a lot into less than 250 pages while still giving fresh perspectives on the musical culture of the era. I was especially impressed with his ability to really investigate the changes in music and how those changes interacted with all sorts of different aspects of his era. I really liked the way he connected socio-economic changes, and especially the solidification of the middle class, with shifts in the way music was made and listened to. The exploration of the effect of technological advances on music was good, too. And it made me very happy that Frisch gave ample coverage to Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Amy Beach.
