The piano quartet and quintet : style, structure, and scoring /

This book is concerned primarily with the development of the piano quartet and quintet from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day, but refers also to several important works for larger ensembles. Developments during the first four decades of the nineteenth century resulted not only in Schube...

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Main Author: Smallman, Basil
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Table of Contents:
  • The origins to 1800
  • The early Romantics
  • Cross-currents
  • The ascendancy of Brahms
  • Transition and change
  • The relationship of style to scoring
  • Mixed ensembles.