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After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance. By Kenneth Hamilton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. [x, 304 p. ISBN-10: 0195178262; ISBN-13; 9780195178265. $29.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliographic references, bibliography, index.
In After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance, Kenneth Hamilton challenges the monopoly of modern performance practice on romantic repertory. Focusing on the so-called "golden age" of pianism, ca.1840-ca. 1940, Hamilton's healthy mixture of common sense, insightful arguments, and considerable experience as both scholar and pianist demonstrate just how far our current notions of ...