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The Piano Quartet and Quintet: Style, Structure, and Scoring

The Piano Quartet and Quintet: Style, Structure, and Scoring

Smallman, Basil

Paperback

Series: Clarendon Paperbacks

Classical MusicMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0198166400
ISBN13: 9780198166405
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Nov 14 1996
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Designed as a companion volume to the author's earlier study, The Piano Trio, this book surveys the development of the piano quartet and quintet from their beginnings in the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Developments during the first four decades of the nineteenth century resulted not only in Schubert's renowned Trout Quintet, but also in works of much brilliance by Dussek, Hummel, Weber, and others in which the piano predominates in a concerto-like role. Subsequently, Schumann's epoch-making quintet of 1842 initiated a broadly symphonic style, with large-scale structures and closely integrated textures, which was taken up by many later composers, including Brahms, Dvorak, Cesar Franck, Faure, and Elgar. The author also examines the numerous changes in the nature of the genres which have occurred in recent times, and gives special consideration to a number of works by leading twentieth-century composers, in which mixed media are formed by combining wind instruments with the normal strings-and-piano ensembles.

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