German Music Criticism In The Late Eighteenth Century

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German Music Criticism in the Late Eighteenth Century

Author : Mary Sue Morrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052158227X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Book Synopsis German Music Criticism in the Late Eighteenth Century by : Mary Sue Morrow

Download or read book German Music Criticism in the Late Eighteenth Century written by Mary Sue Morrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music aesthetics in late eighteenth-century Germany has always been problematic because there was no aesthetic theory to evaluate the enormous amount of high-quality instrumental music produced by composers like Haydn and Mozart. This book derives a practical aesthetic for German instrumental music during the late eighteenth century from a previously neglected source, reviews of printed instrumental works. At a time when the theory of mimesis dominated aesthetic thought, leaving sonatas and symphonies at the very bottom of the aesthetic hierarchy, a group of reviewers were quietly setting about the task of evaluating instrumental music on its own terms. The reviews document an intersection with trends in literature and philosophy, and reveal interest in criteria like genius, the expressive power of music, and the necessity of unity, several decades earlier than has previously been supposed.

Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples

Author : Anthony R. DelDonna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108804942
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples by : Anthony R. DelDonna

Download or read book Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples written by Anthony R. DelDonna and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of early modern Naples and its renowned artistic traditions remain a fruitful area for scholars in eighteenth-century studies. Contemporary social, political, and artistic conditions had stimulated a significant growth of music, musicians and culture in the Kingdom of Naples from the beginning of the seventeenth century. Although eighteenth-century Neapolitan opera is well documented in scholarship, historians have paid much less attention to the simultaneous cultivation of instrumental genres. Yet the culture of instrumental music grew steadily and by its end became an exclusive area of focus for the royal court, a remarkable departure from past norms of patronage. By bridging this gap, Anthony R. DelDonna brings together diverse fields, including historical musicology, music theory, Neapolitan and European history. His book investigates the wide-ranging role of instrumental genres within late eighteenth-century Neapolitan culture and introduces readers to new material, including recently discovered instrumental works of Paisiello, Cimarosa and Pleyel.

Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment

Author : Matthew Riley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351556894
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment written by Matthew Riley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The silent attentiveness expected of concert audiences is one of the most distinctive characteristics of modern Western musical culture. This is the first book to examine the concept of attention in the history of musical thought and its foundations in the writings of German musical commentators of the late eighteenth century. Those critics explained numerous technical features of the music of their time as devices for arousing, sustaining or otherwise influencing the attention of a listener, citing in illustration works by Gluck, C. P. E. Bach, Georg Benda and others. Two types of attention were identified: the uninterrupted experience of a single emotional state conveyed by a piece of music as a whole, and the fleeting sense of 'wonder' or 'astonishment' induced by a local event in a piece. The relative validity of these two modes was a topic of heated debate in the German Enlightenment, encompassing issues of musical communication, compositional integrity and listener competence. Matthew Riley examines the significant writers on the topic (Descartes, Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, Rousseau, Meier, Sulzer and Forkel) and provides analytical case studies to illustrate how these perceived modes of attention shaped interpretations of music of the period.

Poetry and Song in Late Eighteenth Century Germany

Author : Margaret Mahony Stoljar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780709933588
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (335 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry and Song in Late Eighteenth Century Germany by : Margaret Mahony Stoljar

Download or read book Poetry and Song in Late Eighteenth Century Germany written by Margaret Mahony Stoljar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1985 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sovereign Feminine

Author : Matthew Head
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520954769
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Sovereign Feminine written by Matthew Head and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics who argued for music as a fine art, a component of modern, polite, and commercial culture, rather than a symbol of institutional power. In the eyes of such critics, femininity—a newly emerging and primarily bourgeois ideal—linked women and music under the valorized signs of refinement, sensibility, virtue, patriotism, luxury, and, above all, beauty. This moment in musical history was eclipsed in the first decades of the nineteenth century, and ultimately erased from the music-historical record, by now familiar developments: the formation of musical canons, a musical history based on technical progress, the idea of masterworks, authorial autonomy, the musical sublime, and aggressively essentializing ideas about the relationship between sex, gender and art. In Sovereign Feminine, Matthew Head restores this earlier musical history and explores the role that women played in the development of classical music.

String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples

Author : Guido Olivieri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100927368X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples by : Guido Olivieri

Download or read book String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples written by Guido Olivieri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling new study of instrumental music in early modern Naples and of the string virtuosi who disseminated it through Europe.

Theater and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Author : Michael J. Sosulski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351880152
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Theater and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany by : Michael J. Sosulski

Download or read book Theater and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany written by Michael J. Sosulski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1767, more than a century before Germany was incorporated as a modern nation-state, the city of Hamburg chartered the first Deutsches Nationaltheater. What can it have meant for a German playhouse to have been a national theater, and what did that imply about the way these theaters operated? Michael Sosulski contends that the idea of German nationhood not only existed prior to the Napoleonic Wars but was decisive in shaping cultural production in the last third of the eighteenth century, operating not on the level of popular consciousness but instead within representational practices and institutions. Grounding his study in a Foucauldian understanding of emergent technologies of the self, Sosulski connects the increasing performance of body discipline by professional actors, soldiers, and schoolchildren to the growing interest in German national identity. The idea of a German cultural nation gradually emerged as a conceptual force through the work of an influential series of literary intellectuals and advocates of a national theater, including G. E. Lessing and Friedrich Schiller. Sosulski combines fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known dramas, with analysis of eighteenth-century theories of nationhood and evolving acting theories, to show that the very lack of a strong national consciousness in the late eighteenth century actually spurred the emergence of the German Nationaltheater, which were conceived in the spirit of the Enlightenment as educational institutions. Since for Germans, nationality was a performed identity, theater emerged as an ideal space in which to imagine that nation.

The Career of an Eighteenth-century Kapellmeister

Author : Sterling E. Murray
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 158046467X
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Career of an Eighteenth-century Kapellmeister written by Sterling E. Murray and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique look at the career of a little-known contemporary of Haydn and Mozart, presented against a fascinating background of court musical life in late eighteenth-century Germany.

Verdi and the Germans

Author : Gundula Kreuzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521519195
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Verdi and the Germans written by Gundula Kreuzer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the reception of Italian opera, epitomised by Verdi, influenced changing ideas of German musical and national identity.

Musical Thought in Britain and Germany During the Early Eighteenth Century

Author : Donald R. Boomgaarden
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Thought in Britain and Germany During the Early Eighteenth Century written by Donald R. Boomgaarden and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses important changes in attitudes toward music as seen in the writings of British and German philosophers, journalists, and musicians. Selecting four major aesthetic issues (the affections, imitation of nature, taste, and the imagination), Boomgaarden shows that the continuity of Eighteenth-Century musical thought defies any attempt to place the shift in musical style from Baroque to Classical at 1750--a shift which had actually begun long before. Significant and previously unknown interrelationships between writers in the two countries are also documented. The study is a significant contribution to women's, religious, and art history.

Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque

Author : John Butt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521433274
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque by : John Butt

Download or read book Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque written by John Butt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In considering the role of practical music in education this book explores the art of performance in Germany during the Baroque period. The author examines the large number of surviving treatises and instruction manuals used in the Lutheran schools during the period 1530-1800 and builds up a picture of the function and status of music in both school and church. This understanding of music as a functional art--musica practica--in turn gives us insight into contemporary performance of the sacred work of Praetorius, SchÜtz, Buxtehude or Bach.

The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Century

Author : Stephanie Vial
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580460347
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Century written by Stephanie Vial and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the collection of papers that came out of an interdisciplinary symposium held in the spring of 1991 in the Republic of San Marino. The conference "Effects of War on Society" was planned as the first in a series aimed ultimately at placing in perspective the sociocultural variables that make outbreaks of war probable, and delineating for researchers and policy makers alike some important steps that can be taken to control these variables. This is Volume 1 of a series entitled "Studies on the Nature of War", which the University of Rochester Press has been publishing from Volume 2 (War and Ethnicity: Global Connections and Local Violence (1997)). after much demand, we are now distributing this book on behalf of the conference organizers, The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stress, in San Marino.

The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume I

Author : Mary Sue Morrow
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025307214X
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume I written by Mary Sue Morrow and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 18th century, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges. In his five-volume series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late A. Peter Brown explores the symphony from its 18th-century beginnings to the end of the 20th century. In Volume 1, The Eighteenth-Century Symphony, 22 of Brown's former students and colleagues collaborate to complete the work that he began on this critical period of development in symphonic history. The work follows Brown's outline, is organized by country, and focuses on major composers. It includes a four-chapter overview and concludes with a reframing of the symphonic narrative. Contributors address issues of historiography, the status of research, and questions of attribution and stylistic traits, and provide background material on the musical context of composition and early performances. The volume features a CD of recordings from the Bloomington Early Music Festival Orchestra, highlighting the largely unavailable repertoire discussed in the book.

Wagner's Melodies

Author : David Trippett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107014301
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Wagner's Melodies written by David Trippett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wagner's Melodies places the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age.

Representing Duchess Anna Amalia's Bildung

Author : Christina K. Lindeman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351768069
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Representing Duchess Anna Amalia's Bildung written by Christina K. Lindeman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraits of Anna Amalia, Duchess of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach chart a shift in perceptions of her public identity and of the gender dynamics that shaped that identity. This manuscript is more than just a patronage study or a biography; it is concerned with how a powerful woman used art to shape her identity, how that identity changed over time, and how people around her shaped it, too. This study sheds real light on the power of portraiture in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.

Beethoven's Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber

Author : Nancy November
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108923879
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber written by Nancy November and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early nineteenth-century composers, publishers and writers evolved influential ideals of Beethoven's symphonies as untouchable masterpieces. Meanwhile, many and various arrangements of symphonies, principally for amateur performers, supported diverse and 'hands-on' cultivation of the same works. Now mostly forgotten, these arrangements served a vital function in nineteenth-century musical life, extending works' meanings and reach, especially to women in the home. This book places domestic music-making back into the history of the classical symphony. It investigates a largely untapped wealth of early nineteenth-century arrangements of symphonies by Beethoven - for piano, string quartet, mixed quintet and other ensembles. The study focuses on three key agents in the nineteenth-century culture of musical arrangement: arrangers, publishers and performers. It investigates significant functions of those musical arrangements in the era: sociability, reception and canon formation. The volume also explores how conceptions of Beethoven's symphonies, and their arrangement, changed across the era with changing conception of musical works.

The Critical Reception of Beethoven's Compositions by His German Contemporaries, Volume 2

Author : Wayne M. Senner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803212510
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Critical Reception of Beethoven's Compositions by His German Contemporaries, Volume 2 written by Wayne M. Senner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes in The Critical Reception of Beethoven's Compositions by His German Contemporaries bring to light contemporary perceptions of Beethoven's music, including matters such as audience, setting, facilities, orchestra, instruments, and performers as well as the relationship of Beethoven's music to theoretical and critical ideas of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These documents, most of which appear in English for the first time, have been compiled from German-language periodicals published between 1783 and 1830. They present a wide spectrum of insights into the perceptions that Beethoven's contemporaries had of his monumental music. This is the second in a projected four-volume series. It begins with Opus 55, the Eroica, and ends with Opus 72, Fidelio.