Music and sentimentalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stephen Downes.
• Authors: Downes, Stephen C, 1962-
• Contents: 1.Introduction: Getting Sentimental Part 1: Spaces 2. Sentimental virtues in the Victorian Salon: Joseph Joachim on the lawn and in the lounge. 3. Feeling and Design Magnified: the place and status of sentimental music in the nineteenth-century concert hall. Part 2: Genres 4. Sentimental Waltzes: tender steps from Goethe to Ravel. 5. Longing to Belong: Nationalism, sentimentalism, and the Second Violin Concertos of Bartók and Szymanowski. Part 3: Psychologies 6. Sentimentalism and Masochism: Barthes’s Schumann and Schumann’s ‘Chopin’. 7. Two Sentimental English Gentlemen: ‘screen memories’, a Schubert lied and the voice of Gracie Fields in Merchant-Ivory’s The Remains of the Day . Part 4: Appropriations 8. Ellington, Liszt, and Chopin’s Death Bed. 9. Chopin on the Beach: Bossa nova, Tom Jobim’s ‘Insensatez’, and sentimental ecology. 10. Chopin and the Power Ballad: Barry Manilow’s ‘Could it be Magic?’ Part 5: Sympathies 11. Make it ‘Easy’? Sentimental subject positions in songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. 12. Homes and Roads: the song writing of Carole King and Jimmy Webb. Coda: Compassion, Mediation and the Consumer 13. Górecki’s Tears/ Our Tears.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 780.9034; Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Sentimentalism in music
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429837401; 9780429837418; 9780429451676
• Related ISBNs: 9781138322998; 9781032007427
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