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Cambridge Univ Pr, 1983. This book traces the unique attraction Scotland has had for the great eighteenth- and nineteenth-century composers. It is not about Scottish composers, but rather about the music that for two centuries was written and performed outside Scotland by musicians of other countries who had Scotland in mind. Hitherto far more has been known about this attraction in Germany and France than in Britain, but Roger Fiske here puts this right and shows how nearly all the major composers from Purcell to Brahms were affected - most notably Schubert, Mendelssohn and Bruch, but also Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin and Schumann. In particular, Dr Fiske describes the travels of Mendelssohn and Chopin in more detail than has been attempted before. There are two major influences to be found in this enthusiasm for Scotland. The first is Scotch song, a generic term commonly used in eighteenth-century England for a type of popular song. The second is Scottish literature, especially Macpherson's Ossian…
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- Title Scotland in Music: A European Enthusiasm
- Author Roger Fiske
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 244
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1983
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780521247726 / 0521247721
- Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.71 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 1.80 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Music - Europe - History and criticism, Scotland - Songs and music - History and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 82014583
- Dewey Decimal Code 781
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