Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music
Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music
spawned and nourished by romanticism, preserved the aesthetic, social, and ethical values associated with improvisation, calling into question the supposed triumph of the work.
Author: Dana Gooley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/12/2018
Pages: 314
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780190633585
Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2019
About the Author
Dana Gooley is Associate Professor of Music at Brown University. His research centers on European music and musical culture in the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on performance, reception, and criticism. A specialist of Franz Liszt, he has published The Virtuoso Liszt (Cambridge, 2004) and
co-edited two essay collections, Franz Liszt and His World (Princeton, 2006) and Franz Liszt: Musicien Européen (Editions Vrin, 2012). He has also published articles on music criticism, musical mediation, improvisation, cosmopolitanism, and jazz. Gooley studied classical piano at New England
Conservatory and is a self-taught jazz pianist. With his quintet he hosts the Sunday night jam session at Boston's historic jazz club Wally's Café.
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