Book Review
Dec. 4th, 2023 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariThe Cambridge Companion to the Symphony
by Julian Horton
This volume was fairly dense, but often very interesting and enlightening. I do wish some of the authors had been a little less pre-occupied with the question of whether the symphony as a genre is moribuund or even completely played out or passe. I especially liked the analytical chapters on cyclic processes in the 19th century symphony and on formal strategies in 20th century works. I also really liked the chapters on the symphony in early Soviet Russia and on the classical symphony outside of Vienna.
by Julian Horton
This volume was fairly dense, but often very interesting and enlightening. I do wish some of the authors had been a little less pre-occupied with the question of whether the symphony as a genre is moribuund or even completely played out or passe. I especially liked the analytical chapters on cyclic processes in the 19th century symphony and on formal strategies in 20th century works. I also really liked the chapters on the symphony in early Soviet Russia and on the classical symphony outside of Vienna.
