| Series |
Western music in context: a Norton history
Western music in context. ^A1192164
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| Contents |
Anthology repertoire -- The encyclopedic century. The grand tour ; The fish-tail ; Demographics and religion ; A musciological grand tour -- Learned and galant. Old and new musical styles ; Binary and Da Capo form: musical common ground ; Coexistence and interaction of styles ; Teaching and learning -- Naples. Musical education ; The Musico and vocal improvisation ; Theaters ; The Austrians in Naples, Vinci, and the emergence of the galant style ; Pergolesi and the comic Intermezzo -- Carnival opera in Rome and Venice. Metastasio and opera seria ; Theatrical transvestism and the Roman carnival: Latilla's La finta cameriera ; Venetian Ospedali ; "I boast of my strength": the life and music of Caterina Gabrielli -- Instrumental music in Italy and Spain. The operatic sinfonia, the symphony, and the orchestra ; The piano ; Domenico Scarlatti ; Boccherini and the music publishing business -- Paris of the Ancien Régime. Tragédie lyrique at the opéra ; Opéra comique ; Instrumental music in Parisian salons ; Public concerts and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges -- Georgian London. Metropolis on the Thames ; Ballad opera ; Italian opera ; Public concerts ; "Ancient" and modern instrumental music -- Vienna under Empress Maria Theresa. The court theater and the theater at the Kärntnertor ; Crisis, reform, and a new court theater ; Maria Theresa as musician and patron ; Gluck and Viennese opéra comique ; Operatic reform and Orfeo ed Euridice ; Church music: Vanhal's Missa Pastoralis ; Women at the keyboard -- Leipzig and Berlin. Leipzig in 1750 ; Hiller as organizer of concerts and composer of Singspiele ; A musician-king's violent coming of age ; Frederick's opera company and Graun's Montezuma ; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- Courts of Central Europe: Mannheim, Bayreuth, and Eisenstadt/Eszterháza. Carl Theodor and Stamitz at Mannheim ; Margravine Wilhelmina and Anna Bon at Bayreuth ; Joseph Haydn in Vienna and Eisenstadt ; Haydn at Eszterháza and the Farewell Symphony -- Galant music in the New World. The gold cities of Minas Gerais ; An Italian musician in Mexico City ; The slave colony of Jamaica and Samuel Felsted's Jonah ; Music for the Moravian Lovefeast -- St. Petersburg under Catherine the Great. Catherine the Great as operatic patron ; Music and the nobility: Nicholas and Prascovia ; Giuseppe Sarti, Dmitry Bortniansky, and Russian church music ; The Russian horn band ; John Field's forward-looking piano music -- Foreigners in Paris: Gluck, Mozart, Salieri, Cherubini. Gluck at the opéra ; Mozart in Paris's salons and concert rooms ; Antonio Salieri and Les Danaïdes ; Luigi Cherubini and the French Revolution -- Mozart's Vienna. Joseph as enlightened monarch ; New patterns of patronage ; Public concerts ; Music in the home ; Opera buffa -- Prague. In the shadow of White Mountain ; Italian opera ; Mozart in Prague ; Don Giovanni ; A coronation opera for the "German Titus" -- London in the 1790s. Rival concert series ; Haydn's first visit to England ; Haydn's second visit -- Vienna in the Napoleonic Era. Beethoven in Vienna: the 1790s ; Gottfried van Swieten and Haydn's The Seasons ; The triumph of Cherubini's Les Deux Journées ; Church music as counter-revolutionary symbol ; Beethoven's heroic style ; The Pastoral Symphony as celebration of the enlightenment. |
| Abstract |
This book takes the reader on an engrossing Grand Tour of Europe's musical centers, from Naples, to London, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, and St. Petersburg with a side trip to the colonial New World. Against the backdrop of Europe's largely peaceful division into Catholic and Protestant realms, the author shows how "learned" and "galant" styles developed and commingled. While considering Mozart, Haydn, and early Beethoven in depth, he broadens his focus to assess the contributions of lesser-known but significant figures like Johann Adam Hiller, Francois-André Philidor, and Anna Bon. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-275) and index. |
| LCCN | 2012040077 |
| ISBN | 9780393929188 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0393929183 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard identifier# |
40021683388 |
