UID:
almahu_9948022227902882
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 798 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139056038 (ebook)
Series Statement:
The Cambridge history of music
Content:
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. The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music provides a comprehensive survey, 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 organised 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 readers to think of eighteenth-century music less in terms of overtly teleological developments than of interacting and mutually stimulating musical cultures and practices.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
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Prelude.
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The musical map of Europe c. 1700 /
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Music for the church.
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Catholic church music in Italy, and the Spanish and Portuguese Empires /
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Catholic sacred music in Austria /
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Catholic church music in France /
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Lutheran church music /
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Protestant church music in England and America /
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Listening, thinking and writing /
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Music for the theatre.
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Italian opera in the eighteenth century /
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Opera in Paris from Campra to Rameau /
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An instinct for parody and a spirit for revolution : Parisian opera, 1752-1800 /
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German opera from Reinhard Keiser to Peter Winter /
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The lure of aria, procession and spectacle : opera in eighteenth-century London /
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Music theatre in Spain /
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Opera in Sweden /
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Performance in the eighteenth century /
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Music for the salon and concert room.
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Keyboard music from Couperin to early Beethoven /
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The serenata in the eighteenth century /
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Private music in public spheres : chamber cantata and song /
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Handel and English oratorio /
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The overture-suite, concerto grosso, ripieno concerto, and Harmoniemusik in the eighteenth century /
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Concerto of the individual /
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Eighteenth-century symphonies : an unfinished dialogue /
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The string quartet /
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Across the divide : currents of musical thought in Europe, c. 1790-1810 /
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Chronology ;
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Institutions in major European cities ;
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Personalia / David Black.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521663199
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521663199
