The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music
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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.
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- Combines different methods of scholarly enquiry: stylistic, aesthetic, historical and theoretical, suggesting directions in which eighteenth-century music studies will evolve in the future
- Broad in coverage of eighteenth-century works and trends, and international in scope
- Provides new insights for scholars and music lovers, opening up numerous avenues for further research and study
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'This must have been a very difficult book to edit, and Simon Keefe (together with David Wyn Jones, who planned the volume) deserves unqualified congratulations for having engaged the work of so many gifted contributors and for having lurked in the detail (as it were) to such good effect … one cannot doubt the immense significance of this volume in its authoritative engagement with a repertory that speaks at every turn to the central importance of music as a vital expression of eighteenth-century thought.' Music and Letters
Product details
- Published: October 2009
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780521663199
- Length: 816 pages
- Dimensions: 235 × 160 × 42 mm
- Weight: 1.41kg
- Contains: 5 b/w illus. 4 tables 11 music examples
- Availability: Available
Table of Contents
- Editor's preface Simon P. Keefe
- Prelude:
- 1. The musical map of Europe c.1700 STEPHEN ROSE
- Part I. Music for the Church:
- 2. Catholic church music in Italy, and the Spanish and Portuguese Empires PAUL R. LAIRD
- 3. Catholic sacred music in Austria JEN-YEN CHEN
- 4. Catholic church music in France JEAN-PAUL C. MONTAGNIER
- 5. Lutheran church music STEPHEN ROSE
- 6. Protestant church music in England and America CHARLES E. BREWER
- Interlude
- 7. Listening, thinking and writing DAVID SCHROEDER
- Part II. Music for the Theatre:
- 8. Italian opera in the eighteenth century MARGARET R. BUTLER
- 9. Opera in Paris from Campra to Rameau LOIS ROSOW
- 10. An instinct for parody and a spirit for revolution: Parisian opera, 1752–1800 MICHAEL FEND
- 11. German opera from Richard Keiser to Peter Winter CLAUDIA MAURER ZENCK, translated by Anke Caton and Simon P. Keefe
- 12. The lure of aria, procession and spectacle: opera in eighteenth-century London MICHAEL BURDEN
- 13. Music theatre in Spain RAINER KLEINERTZ
- 14. Opera in Sweden GREGER ANDERSSON
- Interlude
- 15. Performance in the eighteenth century JOHN IRVING
- Part III. Music for the Salon and Concert Room:
- 16. Keyboard music from Couperin to early Beethoven ROHAN STEWART-MACDONALD
- 17. The Serenata in the eighteenth century STEFANIE TCHAROS
- 18. Private music in public spheres: chamber cantata and song BERTA JONCUS
- 19. Handel and English oratorio EVA ZÖLLNER
- 20. The Overture-Suite, Concerto Grosso and Harmoniemusik in the eighteenth century STEVEN ZOHN
- 21. Concerto of the individual SIMON MCVEIGH
- 22. Eighteenth-century symphonies: an unfinished dialogue RICHARD WILL
- 23. The string quartet CLIFF EISEN
- Postlude:
- 24. Across the divide: currents of musical thought in Europe, c.1790–1810 SIMON P. KEEFE
- Appendix 1: Personalia DAVID BLACK
- Appendix 2: Chronology DAVID BLACK
- Appendix 3: Institutions in major European cities DAVID BLACK.
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