Fantasies of Improvisation

Fantasies of Improvisation PDF Author: Dana Andrew Gooley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190633581
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Book Description
The first history of keyboard improvisation in European music from the time of Beethoven through the later nineteenth century, Dana Gooley's Free Play: Fantasies of Improvisation in Nineteenth-Century Music describes the motives, intentions, and musical styles of the nineteenth century's leading improvisers, and traces the evolution of the performance practice into a glorified ideal.