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Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Author : DavidWyn Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557408
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain written by DavidWyn Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-century Britain

Author : Maria Semi
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409428688
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-century Britain written by Maria Semi and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-century culture. A particularly rich field of investigation, developed between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was the British philosophy of the mind and of human understanding which looked at music and found in its realm a way of understanding human experience. Maria Semi sheds light on how these reflections moved towards a Science of Music: the discipline that was later to be known as 'musicology'.

Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Author : Susan Wollenberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351571206
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain written by Susan Wollenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been a considerable revival of interest in music in eighteenth-century Britain. This interest has now expanded beyond the consideration of composers and their music to include the performing institutions of the period and their relationship to the wider social scene. The collection of essays presented here offers a portrayal of concert life in Britain that contributes greatly to the wider understanding of social and cultural life in the eighteenth century. Music was not merely a pastime but was irrevocably linked with its social, political and literary contexts. The perspectives of performers, organisers, patrons, audiences, publishers, copyists and consumers are considered here in relation to the concert experience. All of the essays taken together construct an understanding of musical communities and the origins of the modern concert system. This is achieved by focusing on the development of music societies; the promotion of musical events; the mobility and advancement of musicians; systems of patronage; the social status of musicians; the repertoire performed and published; the role of women pianists and the 'topography' of concerts. In this way, the book will not only appeal to music specialists, but also to social and cultural historians.

Music and the Benefit Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Author : Matthew Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108492932
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Music and the Benefit Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain written by Matthew Gardner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how the musical benefit allowed musicians, composers, and audiences to engage in new professional, financial, and artistic contexts.

Music in Eighteenth-Century England

Author : Charles Cudworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521235259
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Music in Eighteenth-Century England written by Charles Cudworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book are devoted to the social and intellectual background of eighteenth-century music.

The Power of Pastiche

Author : Alison DeSimone
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942954786
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Pastiche written by Alison DeSimone and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century England, “variety” became a prized aesthetic in musical culture. Not only was variety—of counterpoint, harmony, melody, and orchestration—expected for good composition, but it also manifested in cultural mediums such as songbook anthologies, which compiled miscellaneous songs and styles in single volumes; pasticcio operas, which were cobbled together from excerpts from other operas; and public concerts, which offered a hodgepodge assortment of different types and styles of performance. I call this trend of producing music through the collection, assemblage, and juxtaposition of various smaller pieces as musical miscellany; like a jigsaw puzzle (also invented in the eighteenth century), the urge to construct a whole out of smaller, different parts reflected a growing desire to appeal to a quickly diversifying England. This book explores the phenomenon of musical miscellany in early eighteenth-century England both in performance culture and as an aesthetic. Chapters offer analyses of concert programming, early music criticism, the compilation of pasticcio operas and songbook miscellanies, and even the ways in which composers and performers shaped their freelancing careers. Musical miscellany, in its many forms, juxtaposed foreign and homegrown musical practices and styles in order to stimulate discourse surrounding English musical culture during a time of cosmopolitan transformation as the eighteenth century unfolded.

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

Author : Kate Horgan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317318013
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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

Download or read book The Politics of Songs in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1723–1795 written by Kate Horgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Author : Maria Semi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317092201
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain written by Maria Semi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-century culture. From the field of natural philosophy, involving the science of sounds and acoustics, to the realm of imagination, involving resounding music and art, the branches of modern culture that were involved in the intellectual tradition of the science of music proved to be variously appealing to men of letters. Among these, a particularly rich field of investigation was the British philosophy of the mind and of human understanding, developed between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which looked at music and found in its realm a way of understanding human experience. Focussing on the world of sensation - trying to describe how the human mind could develop ideas and emotions by its means - philosophers and physicians often took their cases from art's products, be it music (sounds), painting (colours) or poetry (words as signs of sound conveying a meaning), thus looking at art from a particular point of view: that of the perceiving mind. The relationship between music and the philosophies of mind is presented here as a significant part of the construction of a Science of Man: a huge and impressive 'project' involving both the study of man's nature, to which - in David Hume's words - 'all sciences have a relation', and the creation of an ideal of what Man should be. Maria Semi sheds light on how these reflections moved towards a Science of Music: a complex and articulated vision of the discipline that was later to be known as 'musicology'; or Musikwissenschaft.

Concert Life in Eighteenth-century Britain

Author : Susan Wollenberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780754638681
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Concert Life in Eighteenth-century Britain written by Susan Wollenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been a considerable revival of interest in music in eighteenth-century Britain. This interest has now expanded beyond the consideration of composers and their music to include the performing institutions of the period and their relationship to the wider social scene. The collection of essays presented here offers a portrayal of concert life in Britain that contributes greatly to the wider understanding of social and cultural life in the eighteenth century. Music was not merely a pastime but was irrevocably linked with its social, political and literary contexts. The perspectives of performers, organisers, patrons, audiences, publishers, copyists and consumers are considered here in relation to the concert experience. All of the essays taken together construct an understanding of musical communities and the origins of the modern concert system. This is achieved by focusing on the development of music societies; the promotion of musical events; the mobility and advancement of musicians; systems of patronage; the social status of musicians; the repertoire performed and published; the role of women pianists and the 'topography' of concerts. In this way, the book will not only appeal to music specialists, but also to social and cultural historians.

A Handbook for Studies in 18th-century English Music

Author : Michael Burden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook for Studies in 18th-century English Music written by Michael Burden and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music

Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521663199
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music written by Simon P. Keefe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Music Profession in Britain Since the Eighteenth Century

Author : Cyril Ehrlich
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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British Music, Musicians and Institutions, C. 1630-1800

Author : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783276479
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book British Music, Musicians and Institutions, C. 1630-1800 written by Julian Rushton and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon the developing picture of the importance of British music, musicians and institutions during the eighteenth century, this book investigates the themes of composition, performance (amateur and professional) and music-printing, within the wider context of social, religious and secular institutions. British music in the era from the death of Henry Purcell to the so-called 'Musical Renaissance' of the late nineteenth century was once considered barren. This view has been overturned in recent years through a better-informed historical perspective, able to recognise that all kinds of British musical institutions continued to flourish, and not only in London. The publication, performance and recording of music by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British composers, supplemented by critical source-studies and scholarly editions, shows forms of music that developed in parallel with those of Britain's near neighbours. Indigenous musicians mingled with migrant musicians from elsewhere, yet there remained strands of British musical culture that had no continental equivalent. Music, vocal and instrumental, sacred and secular, flourished continuously throughout the Stuart and Hanoverian monarchies. Composers such as Eccles, Boyce, Greene, Croft, Arne and Hayes were not wholly overshadowed by European imports such as Handel and J. C. Bach. The present volume builds on this developing picture of the importance of British music, musicians and institutions during the period. Leading musicologists investigate themes such as composition, performance (amateur and professional), and music-printing, within the wider context of social, religious and secular institutions.

Music in the British Provinces, 1690-1914

Author : Peter Holman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557327
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Music in the British Provinces, 1690-1914 written by Peter Holman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period covered by this volume, roughly from Purcell to Elgar, has traditionally been seen as a dark age in British musical history. Much has been done recently to revise this view, though research still tends to focus on London as the commercial and cultural hub of the British Isles. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that by the mid-eighteenth century musical activity outside London was highly distinctive in terms of its reach, the way it was organized, and its size, richness, and quality. There was an extraordinary amount of musical activity of all sorts, in provincial theatres and halls, in the amateur orchestras and choirs that developed in most towns of any size, in taverns, and convivial clubs, in parish churches and dissenting chapels, and, of course, in the home. This is the first book to concentrate specifically on musical life in the provinces, bringing together new archival research and offering a fresh perspective on British music of the period. The essays brought together here testify to the vital role played by music in provincial culture, not only in socializing and networking, but in regional economies and rivalries, demographics and class dynamics, religion and identity, education and recreation, and community and the formation of tradition. Most important, perhaps, as our focus shifts from London to the regions, new light is shed on neglected figures and forgotten repertoires, all of them worthy of reconsideration.

The Music Profession in Britain Since the Eighteenth Century

Author : Cyril Ehrlich
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Music Profession in Britain Since the Eighteenth Century written by Cyril Ehrlich and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first history of an occupational group that aspired to, but failed to achieve, the status of a liberal profession. The book explains the vigorous expansion of the music profession in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as the widespread demand for lessons and the revolution in commercialized entertainment created new employment opportunities, and follows the profession through to its subsequent decline, as changing leisure patterns, "talkies", and relentless improvements in recording technologies displaced both teachers and performers. This wideranging study also discusses the origins of musicians' unions and professional associations, and the proliferation of conservatories and diplomas that persist right up to the present day.

Music in Spain During the Eighteenth Century

Author : Malcolm Boyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521481397
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Music in Spain During the Eighteenth Century written by Malcolm Boyd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-26 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera

Author : Anthony R. DelDonna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521873584
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera written by Anthony R. DelDonna and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect accompaniment to courses on eighteenth-century opera for both students and teachers, this Companion is a definitive reference resource.