The Origins of "Romantic" Styles in Instrumental Music, 1760-1810
FAIN: FS-10250-76
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)
Leon B. Plantinga (Project Director: January 1976 to present)
To examine various examples of "romantic" or "pre-romantic" styles in European instrumental music from roughly 1760 to 1810. The seminar will aim to achieve an clearer understanding of the stylistic traits ordinarily thought of as "romantic", and to probe their historical origins.