Author

Publication

2002-08-12 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

83,000 words, Guess

Page Count

332 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

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First Sentence

The relation between nineteenth-century compositions and Palestrina's music presents an intractable aesthetic problem: how were composers and their audiences able to reconcile the compositional use of the music of the past with the Romantic imperatives of originality, authenticity and contemporaneity?

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Other Editions

  • Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination: Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music (Musical Performance and Reception)HardcoverCambridge University Press2002-08-12

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