September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
The Romantic sounds found in the works of Beethoven (middle to late periods), Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, and Mahler show much more emotionalism than previously. All this overfilling of the old containers (operatic forms, songs, symphonies, and sonatas) with stark, dramatic feeling resulted in a gradual loss of the old tonality.
The prevailing social taste for music as a pleasure that would not let us down had been replaced by a music expressing loss and need in the form of longing and yearning. The psychosociological reasons for this are fascinating, ...
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