Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period
古典时期的音乐历史辞典
 出版社: Scarecrow Press (2012年4月5日)

丛书名: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts

精装: 664页

语种： 英语

ISBN: 0810871831

条形码: 9780810871830

商品尺寸: 16.1 x 4.5 x 23.8 cm

商品重量: 1.1 Kg

ASIN: 0810871831

索书号：J609.61/B840

所在库室：教参阅览室（校本部）

内容介绍：
Van Boer (music history, Western Washington Univ.) defines music's "Classical period"
 as covering composers active between 1730 and 1800 (a standard and useful, if not
always agreed-upon, range) whose work "must conform to either a developmental or conventional
stage of some style we can call 'Classical.'" He provides more than 1000 cross-referenced entries on Classical composers (primarily), major performers of the time,
prominent librettists, influential patrons, important public concerts, major orchestras,
styles and genres, and "occasional peculiarities," e.g., unusual musical instruments.
Also included is a chronology of key musical and historical events. Readers may think
 of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven when they think of this period, but here they will
 discover Lodewijk van Beethoven, a Flemish-German singer and Kappelmeister who was idolized by his more famous grandson
Ludwig; Italian composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga; Dutch-American composer, violinist, and music publisher Peter Albrecht von Hagen, and so
 many more. VERDICT While most personal, public, school, and academic music libraries
 own an edition of the Oxford Companion to Music, a spot-check of the present volume showed that of ten composers randomly chosen, only
three were found in the Oxford Companion; and while musicians, students, and scholars
 may still go on to look up more comprehensive information on these musicians in the
New Grove Dictionary of Music, or in the Grove Online database, this broadly researched,
carefully edited, single-volume work is invaluable for ready reference as well as fascinating for browsing. Library
Journal This work offers more than 1,000 brief entries for composers, performers, and terms
related to music composed between approximately 1730 and 1800. Defining this period in
 terms of time frame and musical style is difficult at best, but Van Boer is convincing in his
arguments for his chosen chronology. This is intended as a quick reference tool, and many
entries are unique to this volume...A time line and an excellent essay on the classical-music period are also included. Booklist This dictionary is an appropriate addition to both
public and academic music reference collections as an introduction to the composers as well
as a quick reference guide. American Reference Books Annual
作者简介
Bertil van Boer is professor of Musicology-Theory at Western Washington University. Trained as a performer, his focus of research is
on the music of the European periphery during the 18th century, with special emphasis on
Scandinavia. He has written substantially on Classical music, this partly in the form of articles
in learned journals and reference works, and has also edited music for performance for Naxos
Records. He was one of the founding members and past president of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music.