The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto

Abstract

Notes on the contributors Acknowledgements List of abbreviations The concerto: a chronology Simon P. Keefe Introduction Simon P. Keefe Part I. Contexts: 1. Theories of the concerto from the eighteenth century to the present day Simon P. Keefe 2. The concerto and society Tia DeNora Part II. The Works: 3. The Italian concerto in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries Michael Talbot 4. The concerto in northern Europe to c. 1770 David Yearsley 5. The concerto from Mozart to Beethoven: aesthetic and stylistic perspectives Simon P. Keefe 6. The nineteenth-century piano concerto Stephan D. Lindeman 7. Nineteenth-century concertos for strings and winds R. Larry Todd 8. Contrasts and common concerns in the concerto 1900-1945 David E. Schneider 9. The concerto since 1945 Arnold Whittall Part III. Performance: 10. The rise (and fall) of the concerto virtuoso in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Cliff Eisen 11. Performance practice in the eighteenth-century concerto Robin Stowell 12. Performance practice in the nineteenth-century concerto David Rowland 13. The concerto in the age of recording Timothy Day Notes Selected further reading Index.