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The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music

Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521663199

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The eighteenth century arguably boasts a more remarkable group of significant musical figures, and a more engaging combination of genres, styles and aesthetic orientations than any century before or since, yet huge swathes of its musical activity remain under-appreciated. This History provides a comprehensive survey of eighteenth-century music, examining little-known repertories, works and musical trends alongside more familiar ones. Rather than relying on temporal, periodic and composer-related phenomena to structure the volume, it is organized by genre; chapters are grouped according to the traditional distinctions of music for the church, music for the theatre and music for the concert room that conditioned so much thinking, activity and output in the eighteenth century. A valuable summation of current research in this area, the volume also encourages the readers to think of eighteenth-century music less in terms of overtly teleological developments than of interacting and mutually stimulating musical cultures and practices.

Music in Eighteenth-century Georgia

Author : Ronald L. Byrnside
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 0820318531

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Music in Eighteenth-century Georgia by Ronald L. Byrnside Pdf

Rich in quality and diversity, the history of music in Georgia is a long one by American standards, spanning the better part of three centuries. This volume explores the musical landscape of Georgia's colonial period, from traditional ballads and operatic productions to John Wesley's first hymn book and New England fuging tunes that took root in south Georgia in the latter half of the century. Attention is also given to the musical and cultural contributions of the German-speaking Salzburgers who came to Georgia beginning in 1735, and to the manifold influences of African Americans in the late eighteenth century. By piecing together information drawn from court records, personal diaries and journals, newspaper notices, estate inventories, wills, and other historical documents, Ron Byrnside constructs a fascinating history of both the secular and sacred music of the colonial period with much of the material new to scholarship.

Music and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Author : Enrico Fubini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0226267326

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Music and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Enrico Fubini Pdf

This book collects key writings about eighteenth century music . It brings together for the first time in one place, a wide selection of essential documents not only about music theory and practice, but about the historical, philosophical, aesthetic, ideological, and literary debates which held sway during a century when musical thought and criticism gained a privileged position in the culture of Europe. Enrico Fubini offers a sampling of English, French, German, and Italian writings on topics ranging from Enlightenment rationalism and the theories of harmony to German musical culture and the polemics on J. S. Bach. Organized by topic and historical period these selections go beyond writings dealing exclusively with specific musical works to larger issues of theory and the reception of musical ideas in the culture at large. The selections are from books, journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and letters; the contributors include Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Grimm, Alfieri, Rameau, Quantz, Gluck, Tartini, Leopold and W. A. Mozart, and C. P .E. Bach. Many are translated here for the first time. With general and chapter introductions, restored footnotes, and other valuable annotations, and a biographical appendix, this anthology will interest music scholars, students, and teachers.

Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Author : DavidWyn Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557405

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Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain by DavidWyn Jones Pdf

This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field looks at various aspects of musical life in eighteenth-century Britain. The significant roles played by institutions such as the Freemasons and foreign embassy chapels in promoting music making and introducing foreign styles to English music are examined, as well as the influence exerted by individuals, both foreign and British. The book covers the spectrum of British music, both sacred and secular, and both cosmopolitan and provincial. In doing so it helps to redress the picture of eighteenth-century British music which has previously portrayed Handel and London as its primary constituents.

The Politics of Songs in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1723–1795

Author : Kate Horgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317318019

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The Politics of Songs in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1723–1795 by Kate Horgan Pdf

Horgan analyses the importance of songs in British eighteenth-century culture with specific reference to their political meaning. Using an interdisciplinary methodology, combining the perspectives of literary studies and cultural history, the utilitarian power of songs emerges across four major case studies.

Eighteenth-century Russian Music

Author : Marina Ritzarev
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754634663

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Eighteenth-century Russian Music by Marina Ritzarev Pdf

Starting from an examination of the rich legacy of Russian music up to 1700, Marina Ritzarev explores the development of music over the course of the eighteenth century. The book focuses on what is characteristic and crucial to Russian music during this period, rather than seeking to provide a comprehensive survey. The musical culture of the time is discussed against the background of social, political and cultural life and the importance of previously marginalized sectors is highlighted. New light is also cast on the well-researched topic of Russian opera

Music in Eighteenth-Century Austria

Author : David Wyn Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521028592

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Music in Eighteenth-Century Austria by David Wyn Jones Pdf

An examination of the little-understood period of music history in which Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven worked.

Eighteenth-Century Russian Music

Author : Marina Ritzarev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351568593

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Eighteenth-Century Russian Music by Marina Ritzarev Pdf

Little is known outside of Russia about the nation's musical heritage prior to the nineteenth century. Western scholarship has tended to view the history of Russian music as not beginning until the end of the eighteenth century. Marina Ritzarev's work shows this interpretation to be misguided. Starting from an examination of the rich legacy of Russian music up to 1700, she explores the development of music over the course of the eighteenth century, a period of especially intense Westernization and secularization. The book focuses on what is characteristic and crucial to Russian music during this period, rather than seeking to provide a comprehensive survey. The musical culture of the time is discussed against the rich background of social, political and cultural life, tying together many of the phenomena that used to be viewed separately. The book highlights the importance of previously marginalized sectors - serf culture, choral sacred culture, the contribution of foreign musicians, the significant influence of Freemasonry, the role of Ukrainian and West-European cultures and so on - as well as casting new light on the well-researched topic of Russian opera. Much new archival material is introduced, and revised biographies of the two leading eighteenth-century Russian composers, Maxim Berezovsky and Dmitry Bortniansky, are provided, as well as those of the serf composer Stepan Degtyarev and the Italian Giuseppe Sarti. The book places eighteenth-century Russian music on the European map, and will be of particular importance for the study of European musical cultures remote from such centres as Italy, Germany-Austria and France. Eighteenth-century Russian music is organically linked with its past and future and its contributory role in forming the Russian national identity and developing the Russian idiom is clarified.

Music-Making in North-East England during the Eighteenth Century

Author : Roz Southey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351556781

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Music-Making in North-East England during the Eighteenth Century by Roz Southey Pdf

The north-east of England in the eighteenth century was a region where many different kinds of musical activity thrived and where a wide range of documentation survives. Such activities included concert-giving, teaching, tuning and composition, as well as music in the theatre and in church. Dr Roz Southey examines the impulses behind such activities and the meanings that local people found inherent in them. It is evident that music could be perceived or utilized for extremely diverse purposes; as entertainment, as a learned art, as an aid to piety, as a profession, a social facilitator and a support to patriotism and nationalism. Musical societies were established throughout the century, and Southey illustrates the social make-up of the members, as well as the role of Gentlemen Amateurs in the organizing of concerts, and the connections with London and other centres. The book draws upon a rich selection of source material, including local newspapers, council and ecclesiastical records, private papers and diaries and accounts of local tradesman, as well as surviving examples of music composed in the area by Charles Avison, Thomas Ebdon and John Garth of Durham, amongst many others. Charles Avison's importance is focused upon particularly, and his Essay on Musical Expression is considered alongside other contemporary writings of lesser fame. Southey provides a fascinating insight into the type and social class of audiences and their influence on the repertoire performed. The book moves from a consideration of music being used as a 'fashion item', evidenced by the patronage of 'big name' soloists from London and abroad, to fiddlers, ballad singers, music at weddings, funerals, public celebrations, and music for marking the events of the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars. It can be seen, therefore, that the north east was an area of important musical activity, and that the music was always interwoven into the political, economic, religious and commercial fabric of eighteenth-century life.

Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Author : DavidWyn Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557412

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Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain by DavidWyn Jones Pdf

This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field looks at various aspects of musical life in eighteenth-century Britain. The significant roles played by institutions such as the Freemasons and foreign embassy chapels in promoting music making and introducing foreign styles to English music are examined, as well as the influence exerted by individuals, both foreign and British. The book covers the spectrum of British music, both sacred and secular, and both cosmopolitan and provincial. In doing so it helps to redress the picture of eighteenth-century British music which has previously portrayed Handel and London as its primary constituents.

Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England

Author : Leslie Ritchie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351536622

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Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England by Leslie Ritchie Pdf

Combining new musicology trends, formal musical analysis, and literary feminist recovery work, Leslie Ritchie examines rare poetic, didactic, fictional, and musical texts written by women in late eighteenth-century Britain. She finds instances of and resistance to contemporary perceptions of music as a form of social control in works by Maria Barthmon, Harriett Abrams, Mary Worgan, Susanna Rowson, Hannah Cowley, and Amelia Opie, among others. Relating women's musical compositions and writings about music to theories of music's function in the formation of female subjectivities during the latter half of the eighteenth century, Ritchie draws on the work of cultural theorists and cultural historians, as well as feminist scholars who have explored the connection between femininity and performance. Whether crafting works consonant with societal ideals of charitable, natural, and national order, or re-imagining their participation in these musical aids to social harmony, women contributed significantly to the formation of British cultural identity. Ritchie's interdisciplinary book will interest scholars working in a range of fields, including gender studies, musicology, eighteenth-century British literature, and cultural studies.

Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy

Author : Jeremy Day-O'Connell
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 1580462480

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Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy by Jeremy Day-O'Connell Pdf

A generously illustrated examination of pentatonic ("black-key scale") techniques in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western art-music. Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy offers the first comprehensive account of a widely recognized aspect of music history: the increasing use of pentatonic ("black-key scale") techniques in nineteenth-century Western art-music. Pentatonicism in nineteenth-century music encompasses hundreds of instances, many of which predate by decades the more famous examples of Debussy and Dvorák. This book weaves together historical commentary with music theory and analysis in order to explain the sources and significance of an important, but hitherto only casually understood, phenomenon. The book introduces several distinct categories of pentatonicpractice -- pastoral, primitive, exotic, religious, and coloristic -- and examines pentatonicism in relationship to changes in the melodic and harmonic sensibility of the time. The text concludes with an additional appendix of over 400 examples, an unprecedented resource demonstrating the individual artistry with which virtually every major nineteenth-century composer (from Schubert, Chopin, and Berlioz to Liszt, Wagner, and Mahler) handled theseemingly "simple" materials of pentatonicism. Jeremy Day-O'Connell is assistant professor of music at Knox College.

Music of the Raj

Author : Ian Woodfield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780191541735

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Music of the Raj by Ian Woodfield Pdf

Music of the Raj is a study of musical life in late eighteenth-century Anglo-Indian society, based on the unpublished correspondence of an extended network of families. The writers of these letters - amateurs with a passionate commitment to the art of music - provide a perceptive commentary on many of the major issues of the day: the stylistic change from Baroque to Galant, the replacement of the harpsichord with the pianoforte, the establishment of the musical canon, and the growing economic and cultural influence of women musicians. Among the topics discussed are the transport, tuning and maintenance of instruments, the relationship between amateur pupil and professional teacher, the conduct of the domestic musical soirée, the role of glee singing in courtship, and the musical education of children. An account is also given of the growth of an expatriate musical culture among the European inhabitants of early colonial Calcutta, and the musical tastes of major Anglo-Indian figures such as Robert Clive, Warren Hastings, and Sir William Jones are assessed. English attitudes to Indian music is an important theme, especially as manifested in the fashion for the Hindostannie airs, transcriptions of Indian melodies in European musical language. The study concludes with an examination of the musical lives of wealthy nabobs back in England, where they immersed themselves in Indian musical culture, taking the Grand Tour, supporting opera at the Kings Theatre, and employing fashionable Italian teachers for their children.

Music in Spain During the Eighteenth Century

Author : Malcolm Boyd,Juan José Carreras López
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521481392

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Music in Spain During the Eighteenth Century by Malcolm Boyd,Juan José Carreras López Pdf

Traditional musicology has tended to see the Spanish eighteenth century as a period of decline, but this 1998 volume shows it to be rich in interest and achievement. Covering stage genres, orchestral and instrumental music and vocal music (both sacred and secular), it brings together the results of research on such topics as opera, musical instruments, the secular cantata and the villancico and challenges received ideas about how Italian and Austrian music of the period influenced (or was opposed by) Spanish composers and theorists. Two final chapters outline the presence of Spanish musical sources in the New World.

Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music

Author : Robert Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135887766

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Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music by Robert Marshall Pdf

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.