Scotland in Music: A European Enthusiasm

by Roger Fiske

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521069653
• ISBN13: 9780521069656
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"