The Art of Music - Volume 03: Modern Music: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Art of Music - Volume 03: Modern Music, credited to The National Society of Music, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Art of Music - Volume 03: Modern Music by The National Society of Music. Read in English by Edmund Bloxam. A survey of music from the late nineteenth century ('modern' at the time), including references to style, comments on traditionalism and nationalism, the latter being a core feature of music at that time. Also included are a number of composers you have probably never heard of. (Summary by The Reader)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Art of Music - Volume 03: Modern Music
• Author credits: The National Society of Music
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 15:36:51

Catalogue topics

• music
• opera
• piano
• orchestra
• violin
• sonata
• concerto
• flute

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction — 32:52
2. 02 - Chapter One: By and After Currents of the Romantic Movement — 1:14:27
3. 03 - Chapter Two: The Russian Romanticists — 42:43
4. 04 - Chapter Three: The Music of Modern Scandinavia, Part One — 51:22
5. 05 - Chapter Three: The Music of Modern Scandinavia, Part Two — 46:19
6. 06 - Chapter Four: The Russian Nationalists — 58:41
7. 07 - Chapter Five: The Music of Contemporary Russia — 57:32
8. 08 - Chapter Six: Musical Development in Bohemia and Hungary, Part One — 45:48
9. 09 - Chapter Six: Musical Development in Bohemia and Hungary, Part Two — 28:42
10. 10 - Chapter Seven: The Post-Classical and Poetic Schools of Modern Germany, Part One — 39:35
11. 11 - Chapter Seven: The Post-Classical and Poetic Schools of Modern Germany, Part Two — 36:58
12. 12 - Chapter Eight: German Opera after Wagner and Modern German Song, Part One — 39:29
13. 13 - Chapter Eight: German Opera after Wagner and Modern German Song, Part Two — 38:10
14. 14 - Chapter Nine: The Followers of César Franck, Part One — 39:45
15. 15 - Chapter Nine: The Followers of César Franck, Part Two — 41:22
16. 16 - Chapter Ten: Debussy and the Ultra-Modernists, Part One — 54:02
17. 17 - Chapter Ten: Debussy and the Ultra-Modernists, Part Two — 50:46
18. 18 - Chapter Eleven: The Operatic Sequel to Verdi — 39:10
19. 19 - Chapter Twelve: The Renaissance of Instrumental Music in Italy — 49:42
20. 20 - Chapter Thirteen: The English Musical Renaissance, Part One — 25:45
21. 21 - Chapter Thirteen: The English Musical Renaissance, Part Two — 43:41

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