The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto

Table of Contents

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.

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