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Author: David Wyn Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-02
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0521028590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the little-understood period of music history in which Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven worked.
Author: Janet K. Page
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-24
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1107039088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJanet K. Page explores the interaction of music and piety, court and church, as seen through the relationship between the Habsburg court and Vienna's convents. In the first full-length study of its kind, she reveals a golden age of convent music in Vienna and the convents' surprising engagement with contemporary politics.
Author: Simon P. Keefe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-09-10
Total Pages: 816
ISBN-13: 9780521663199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Raymond Teodo
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2020-12-22
Total Pages: 7
ISBN-13: 3346318095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssay from the year 2010 in the subject Musicology - Music history - 18th century, grade: 1, University of Queensland (St. Lucia Campus), course: MUSC2500 - Classical Music, language: English, abstract: This essay deals with Mozart’s Requiem (K626) and describes what aspects of the Requiem would have been deemed 'problematic' under the conventions that the church placed upon their music compositions, and explains how these 'problematic' elements actually complemented what effect church music was supposed to evoke for 18th Century Austrian parishioners. Mozart's Requiem has been the subject of debate in terms of its innovativeness and 'appropriateness' for 18th Century Church music, within the historical context in which it was composed. Some have argued that its failure to strictly adhere to the conventions that the Church placed upon Church music composition of the day, meant that Mozart was deliberately 'rebelling' against Church policy. However, a closer study of the historical context, in conjunction with particular events in the composer's life surrounding the development of this composition, indicate that Mozart was actually trying to support the Church's stance on providing music that is both moving, reverent and sacred, albeit taking some liberties that perhaps a lesser well-known and respected composer might not have been able to get away with.
Author: Rose Moser-Schweitzer
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Published: 1934
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marina Ritzarev
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780754634669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStarting 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
Author: DavidWyn Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1351557408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Katalin Komlós
Publisher: Oxford Monographs on Music
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEighteenth-century pianos shaped and influenced the music that was written for them. However, although organological studies probe the instrument in ever more detail, and musical criticism focuses increasingly on the musical repertoire, the relationship between the two has not been properly examined. This book concentrates on the keyboard writing of the last third of the eighteenth century, as inspired by the fundamentally different constructions of the German/Viennese and the English pianoforte. The highly articulated languages of Mozart and his Viennese contemporaries, and the more robust, pre-romantic style of Duzzek and his London colleagues reflect the very characteristics of these respective instruments. Beyond the scrutiny of the music, attention is given also to the players. The differentiation between professionals and amateurs is addressed, and contemporary sources help provide a description of late eighteenth-century performing styles; such a survey offers new insight into the living art of the pianoforte during a most important period in its history.
Author: Anthony DelDonna
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1108477615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book demonstrates the cultivation of instrumental genres by Neapolitan musicians and its significant stature at the royal court. Drawing on archival documents and musical sources, it paints a compelling history of local instrumental music culture and contributes to a wider ethnographic portrait of Naples in the late eighteenth-century.
Author: Michael Cherlin
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781571814036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume not only offers an overview of the theatrical history of the region, it is also a cross-disciplinary attempt to analyse the inner workings and dynamics of theater through a discussion of the interplay between society, the audience, and performing artists."--Jacket.
