Fantasies Of Improvisation: Free Playing In Nineteenth-Century Music

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.

• | Author: Dana Andrew Gooley
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 12, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 314 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Music
• | ISBN-10: 0190633581
• | ISBN-13: 9780190633585