The Romantic Generation

Charles Rosen

出版时间

1998-09-15

ISBN

9780674779341

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

What Charles Rosen's celebrated book "The Classical Style" did for music of the Classical period, this new, much-awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic period, it captures the spirit that enlivened a generation of composers and musicians, and in doing so it conveys the very sense of Romantic music. In readings uniquely informed by his performing experience, Rosen offers consistently acute and thoroughly engaging analyses of works by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Bellini, Liszt, and Berlioz, and he presents a new view of Chopin as a master of polyphony and large-scale form. He adeptly integrates his observations on the music with reflections on the art, literature, drama, and philosophy of the time, and thus shows us the major figures of Romantic music within their intellectual and cultural context. Rosen covers a remarkably broad range of music history and considers the importance to nineteenth-century music of other cultural developments: the art of landscape, a changed approach to the sacred, the literary fragment as a Romantic art form. He sheds new light on the musical sensibilities of each composer, studies the important genres from nocturnes and songs to symphonies and operas, explains musical principles such as the relation between a musical idea and its realization in sound and the interplay between music and text, and traces the origins of musical ideas prevalent in the Romantic period. Rich with striking descriptions and telling analogies, Rosen's overview of Romantic music is an accomplishment without parallel in the literature, a consummate performance by a master pianist and music historian.

AI导读
核心看点
  • 本书延续《古典风格》的学术高度,深入剖析浪漫主义时期的音乐语言、形式与风格。作者结合演奏经验,对舒伯特、舒曼、门德尔松、贝利尼、李斯特和柏辽兹的作品进行敏锐且引人入胜的分析,揭示这一代作曲家的精神内核,传达浪漫主义音乐的真正本质。
  • 书中提出颠覆性的肖邦研究视角,将其重新定义为复调与大型曲式结构的大师,而非仅被视为情感宣泄者。作者通过严谨的和声与曲式分析,驳斥了将肖邦音乐简单归结为感伤或民族主义的浅层解读,展示了其音乐中复杂的逻辑性与艺术深度。
  • 作者将音乐分析与艺术、文学、戏剧及哲学反思深度融合,探讨浪漫主义时代的文化语境。书中对早期浪漫主义与古典调性体系的对比,以及半音化和声技术的演变分析,为读者提供了理解19世纪音乐特殊性的独特视角,展现了跨学科的研究视野。
适合谁读
  • 适合具备一定乐理基础、能识读五线谱的音乐专业学生及研究者。本书涉及大量谱例分析与和声技术探讨,如复调独立性、调性体系对比等,需要读者具备相应的音乐分析能力才能深入理解作者关于作曲技法的深刻见解。
  • 适合对浪漫主义音乐史、音乐美学及文化研究感兴趣的资深音乐爱好者。读者需对舒伯特、肖邦、李斯特等作曲家的作品有基本了解,并愿意深入探究音乐背后的哲学思想、文学关联及社会背景,而非仅停留在旋律欣赏层面。
  • 适合钢琴演奏者及音乐表演专业人士。作者作为钢琴家出身,书中包含大量关于演奏实践、音色处理及音乐结构理解的指导,能帮助演奏者超越表面技巧,从深层结构与伦理角度重新诠释浪漫主义作品,提升艺术表现力。
读前提醒
  • 本书内容深奥且篇幅厚重,阅读难度较高,切勿试图快速通读。建议配合原谱进行精读,特别是涉及和声分析、曲式结构及演奏建议的章节。若缺乏乐理基础,建议先补充相关基础知识,否则难以理解作者关于调性、复调及半音化的专业论述。
  • 书中观点极具独创性甚至争议性,如将肖邦视为复调大师等,可能与主流教科书或考试标准答案相悖。备考音乐史或分析的学生需谨慎对待,避免在学术考试中直接引用可能被视为异端或非正统的观点,以免被评分者误解。
  • 建议采取断断续续、反复研读的方式。读者反馈显示,本书需长时间消化,甚至有人耗时数年才读完。可先阅读序言及感兴趣作曲家的章节,逐步建立对浪漫主义音乐语言的整体认知,切勿因初期晦涩而放弃,其深度价值需长期积累方能体会。
读者共识
  • 读者普遍认可本书为浪漫主义音乐研究的经典之作,评价极高。尽管阅读过程艰难耗时,但完成后均认为其洞察力爆表,提供了前所未有的音乐理解视角。许多读者表示,书中的分析帮助他们听懂了原本无法理解的复杂作品,如肖邦奏鸣曲,实现了认知上的重大突破。
  • 读者赞赏作者将音乐本体分析与文化语境结合的研究方法,认为其不仅关注技术细节,更深刻揭示了浪漫主义时代的精神特质。书中对肖邦、柏辽兹等作曲家的评述被公认为精彩绝伦,具有极高的学术价值与启发性,是理解19世纪音乐不可或缺的重要文献。
  • 读者强调本书并非泛泛而谈的历史概述,而是基于严密论证与实证分析的深度研究。虽然部分观点独特甚至激进,但作者对音乐持开放态度,无成见地探讨各种技法。这种严谨、诚实且富有启发性的学术态度,赢得了专业读者与资深爱好者的广泛尊重与推崇。

本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成,不等同于全文精读。

精彩摘录
  • "李斯特声称肖邦本人曾私下将其自身性格的基础用一个几乎无法转译的波兰语词汇来形容:“zal”。李斯特试图将这个单音节词的丰富内涵进行如下复杂解读:“无可挽回的失去之后所产生的无足轻重的悔恨…愈加强烈的愤懑,对复仇的预谋,…徒劳消沉的苦涩”,他自然也在肖邦的音乐中找到了以上全部特质,并认为肖邦练习曲和谐谑曲的某些时刻体现出“一种集中的激愤,一种时而讽刺、时而倨傲的绝望”。"
  • "p5 The independence of the voices in a fugue of this kind is absolute, but it can only be partially heard. The junction of two voices in a unison, wonderfully employed in the six-voice ricercar but a frequent effect in all contrapuntal writing, marks an extreme: the independence of the voices here p"
  • "The music gathers momentum slowly, like a story that takes its time getting under way. Until the great swell of excitement and intensity in the last third of the Ballade, there are only fluctuations of intensity, waves of lyric passion that break up and come together again. The fusion of narrative a"
作者简介
Charles Rosen was a concert pianist, Professor of Music and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and the author of numerous books, including The Classical Style, The Romantic Generation (Harvard), and Freedom and the Arts (Harvard).
用户评论
Closely argued & drawing upon a wealth of empirical evidence. Recommended without reservation.
Rosen是真的很厉害了……然鹅作为我考前临时抱佛脚读物,感觉有些观点太独特了在考试里面写了会被老师打……
Fascinating book !!!!!!!! took me forever to read, but it's done eventually :)
Virtuosic but deeply humane essays. Most edifying.
断断续续读了四年,一朝忽然发现终于读完了
好看,好讀,好懂。
讀完preface就知道是我一直以來在找的書!be fascinated by the sound of 1810 with insanity and irrational
📍4/21/20
经典永恒啊,庆幸每个时代都能出现几位(虽然寥寥)如此洞察力爆表的大家
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