Music For A Mixed Taste

Author : Steven Zohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190247850

Get Book

Music for a Mixed Taste by Steven Zohn Pdf

Georg Philipp Telemann gave us one of the richest legacies of instrumental music from the eighteenth century. Though considered a definitive contribution to the genre during his lifetime, his concertos, sonatas, and suites were then virtually ignored for nearly two centuries following his death. Yet these works are now among the most popular in the baroque repertory. In Music for a Mixed Taste, Steven Zohn considers Telemann's music from stylistic, generic, and cultural perspectives. He investigates the composer's cosmopolitan "mixed taste"--a blending of the French, Italian, English, and Polish national styles-and his imaginative expansion of this concept to embrace mixtures of the old (late baroque) and new (galant) styles. Telemann had an equally remarkable penchant for generic amalgamation, exemplified by his pioneering role in developing hybrid types such as the sonata in concerto style ("Sonate auf Concertenart") and overture-suite with solo instrument ("Concert en ouverture"). Zohn examines the extramusical meanings of Telemann's "characteristic" overture-suites, which bear descriptive texts associating them with literature, medicine, politics, religion, and the natural world, and which acted as vehicles for the composer's keen sense of musical humor. Zohn then explores Telemann's unprecedented self-publishing enterprise at Hamburg, and sheds light on the previously unrecognized borrowing by J.S. Bach from a Telemann concerto. Music for a Mixed Taste further reveals how Telemann's style polonaise generates musical and social meanings through the timeless oppositions of Orient-Occident, urban-rural, and serious-comic.

Author : Szymon Paczkowski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810888944

Get Book

Polish Style in the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach by Szymon Paczkowski Pdf

Now appearing in an English translation, this book by Szymon Paczkowski is the first in-depth exploration of the Polish style in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach spent almost thirty years living and working in Leipzig in Saxony, a country ruled by Friedrich August I and his son Friedrich August II, who were also kings of Poland (as August II and August III). This period of close Polish-Saxon relations left a significant imprint on Bach’s music. Paczkowski’s meticulous account of this complex political and cultural dynamic sheds new light on many of Bach’s familiar pieces. The book explores the semantic and rhetorical functions that undergird the symbolism of the Polish style in Baroque music. It demonstrates how the notion of a Polish style in music was developed in German music theory, and conjectures that Bach’s successful application for the title of Court Composer at the court of the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland would induce the composer to deliberately use elements of the Polish style. This comprehensive study of the way Bach used the Polish style in his music moves beyond technical analysis to place the pieces within the context of Baroque customs and discourse. This ambitious and inspiring study is an original contribution to the scholarly conversation concerning Bach’s music, focusing on the symbolism of the polonaise, the most popular and recognizable Polish dance in 18th-century Saxony. In Saxony at this time the polonaise was associated with the ceremonies of the royal-electoral court in Dresden, and Saxon musicians regarded it as a musical symbol of royalty. Paczkowski explores this symbolism of the Polish royal dance in Bach’s instrumental music and, which is also to be found to an even greater extent, in his vocal works. The Polish Style in the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach provides wide-ranging interpretations based on a careful analysis of the sources explored within historical and theological context. The book is a valuable source for both teaching and further research, and will find readers not only among musicologists, but also historians, art historians, and readers in cultural studies. All lovers of Bach’s music will appreciate this lucid and intriguing study.

Author : Mary Cyr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317048824

Get Book

Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music by Mary Cyr Pdf

Mary Cyr addresses the needs of researchers, performers, and informed listeners who wish to apply knowledge about historically informed performance to specific pieces. Special emphasis is placed upon the period 1680 to 1760, when the viol, violin, and violoncello grew to prominence as solo instruments in France. Part I deals with the historical background to the debate between the French and Italian styles and the features that defined French style. Part II summarizes the present state of research on bowed string instruments (violin, viola, cello, contrebasse, pardessus de viole, and viol) in France, including such topics as the size and distribution of parts in ensembles and the role of the contrebasse. Part III addresses issues and conventions of interpretation such as articulation, tempo and character, inequality, ornamentation, the basse continue, pitch, temperament, and "special effects" such as tremolo and harmonics. Part IV introduces four composer profiles that examine performance issues in the music of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin Marais, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, and the Forquerays (father and son). The diversity of compositional styles among this group of composers, and the virtuosity they incorporated in their music, generate a broad field for discussing issues of performance practice and offer opportunities to explore controversial themes within the context of specific pieces.

Author : Samantha Owens,Barbara M. Reul,Janice B. Stockigt
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843835981

Get Book

Music at German Courts, 1715-1760 by Samantha Owens,Barbara M. Reul,Janice B. Stockigt Pdf

Music at German Courts serves to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of eighteenth-century German court music establishments without losing sight of what these Kapellen had in common. What was musical life at German courts really like during the eighteenth century? Were musical ensembles as diverse as the Holy Roman Empire's kaleidoscopic political landscape? Through a series of individual case studies contributed by leading scholars from Germany, Poland, the United States, Canada, and Australia, this book investigates the realities of musical life at fifteen German courts of varied size (ranging from kingdoms to principalities), religious denomination, and geographical location. Significant shifts that occurred in the artistic priorities of each court are presented through a series of "snapshots"- in effect "core sample" years - which highlight both individualand shared patterns of development and decline. What emerges from the wealth of primary source material examined in this volume is an in-depth picture of music-making within the daily life of individual courts, featuring acast of music directors, instrumentalists, and vocalists, together with numerous support staff drawn from across Europe. Music at German Courts serves to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of eighteenth-century German court music establishments without losing sight of what these Kapellen had in common. SAMANTHA OWENS is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. BARBARA M. REUL is Associate Professor of Musicology at Luther College, University of Regina, Canada. JANICE B. STOCKIGT is a Principal Fellow of the University of Melbourne, Australia. Contributors: DIETER KIRSCH, URSULA KRAMER, MICHAEL MAUL, MARY OLESKIEWICZ, SAMANTHA OWENS, RASHID-S. PEGAH, BÄRBEL PELKER, BARBARA M. REUL, WOLFGANG RUF, BERT SIEGMUND, JANICE B. STOCKIGT, MICHAEL TALBOT, RÜDIGER THOMSEN-FÜRST, ALINA ZORAWSKA-WITKOWSKA, STEVEN ZOHN

Author : Georg Philipp Telemann
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780895792952

Get Book

Douze solos, à violon ou traversière by Georg Philipp Telemann Pdf

Author : Margaret Seares
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351561617

Get Book

Johann Mattheson's Pièces de clavecin and Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre by Margaret Seares Pdf

A prolific music theorist and critic as well as an established composer, Johannes Mattheson remains surprisingly understudied. In this important study, Margaret Seares places Matthesons Pis de clavecin (1714) in the context of his work as a public intellectual who encouraged German musicians and their musical public to eschew what he saw as the hidebound traditions of the past, and instead embrace a universalism of style and expression derived from contemporary currents in music of the leading European nations. Beginning with the early non-musical writings by Mattheson, Seares places them in the context of the cosmopolitan city-state of Hamburg, before moving to a detailed study of his first major musical treatise Das neu-erffnete Orchestre of 1713, in which he espoused his views about the musics of the past and present and, in particular, the characteristics of the musics of Germany, Italy, France and England. This latter section of the treatise, Part III, is edited and translated into English in the book's appendix - the first such translation available. Seares then moves on to an evaluation of the Pis de clavecin as a work in which Mattheson reflects in musical terms the themes of modernism (in the sense of a mode) and universalism that are such a strong part of his writings of the period, and a work that represents an important precursor for the keyboard suites of Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Frideric Handel.

Author : Peter Walls
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351574723

Get Book

Baroque Music by Peter Walls Pdf

Research in the 20th and 21st centuries into historical performance practice has changed not just the way performers approach music of the 17th and 18th centuries but, eventually, the way audiences listen to it. This volume, beginning with a 1915 Saint-Sa lecture on the performance of old music, sets out to capture musicological discussion that has actually changed the way Baroque music can sound. The articles deal with historical instruments, pitch, tuning, temperament, the nexus between technique and style, vibrato, the performance implications of musical scores, and some of the vexed questions relating to rhythmic alteration. It closes with a section on the musicological challenges to the ideology of the early music movement mounted (principally) in the 1990s. Leading writers on historical performance practice are represented. Recognizing that significant developments in historically-inspired performance have been led by instrument makers and performers, the volume also contains representative essays by key practitioners.

Author : Celia Applegate,Pamela Potter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0226021300

Get Book

Music and German National Identity by Celia Applegate,Pamela Potter Pdf

Concert halls all over the world feature mostly the works of German and Austrian composers as their standard repertoire: composers like the three "Bs" of classical music, Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, all of whom are German. Over the past three centuries, many supporters of German music have even nurtured the notion that the German-speaking world possesses a peculiar strength in the cultivation of music. This book brings together seventeen contributors from the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, history, and German literature to explore these questions: how music came to be associated with German identity, when and how Germans came to be regarded as the "people of music," and how music came to be designated "the most German of arts." Unlike previous volumes on this topic, many of which focused primarily on Wagner and Nazism, the essays here are wide-ranging and comprehensive, examining philosophy, literature, politics, and social currents as well as the creation and performance of folk music, art music, church music, jazz, rock, and pop. The result is a striking volume, adeptly addressing the complexity and variety of ways in which music insinuated itself into the German national imagination and how it has continued to play a central role in the shaping of a German identity. Contributors to this volume: Celia Applegate Doris L. Bergen Philip Bohlman Joy Haslam Calico Bruce Campbell John Daverio Thomas S. Grey Jost Hermand Michael H. Kater Gesa Kordes Edward Larkey Bruno Nettl Uta G. Poiger Pamela Potter Albrecht Riethmüller Bernd Sponheuer Hans Rudolf Vaget

Author : Neal Zaslaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015084110538

Get Book

Coll' Astuzia, Col Giudizio by Neal Zaslaw Pdf

Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X004956456

Get Book

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Claudel to Dante by Stanley Sadie Pdf

Author : George Crabb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : English language
ISBN : IOWA:31858004839209

Get Book

English Synonyms Explained by George Crabb Pdf

Author : George Crabb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : English language
ISBN : SRLF:AA0003515269

Get Book

English Synonyms Explained in Alphabetical Order by George Crabb Pdf

Author : John William Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z259725503

Get Book

Complete Encyclopaedia of Music, Elementary, Technical, Historical, Biographical, Vocal and Instrumental by John William Moore Pdf

Author : John Weeks Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Music
ISBN : UCLA:L0069963817

Get Book

Complete Encyclopædia of Music, Elementary, Technical, Historical, Biographical, Vocal, and Instrumental by John Weeks Moore Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Music
ISBN : UIUC:30112014391277

Get Book

Musical News by Anonim Pdf