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Free Fantasia Musical Picturesque (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, Series Number 6)
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ISBN: 0521027535
Author: Richards, Annette
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This book brings together music and visual arts, especially the art of landscape gardening, in the context of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English and German culture. The aesthetic of the picturesque, derived from the controlled wilderness of the landscape garden, provided writers on music with a language in which to describe the musical genre of the free fantasia, and the picturesque emerges here as a vital means for understanding the fantastical elements in the music of C. P. E. Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven.
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Free Fantasia Musical Picturesque (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, Series Number 6)