The linking theme of the essays collected here is the intersection of musical work with social and cultural practice. Inspired by Professor Strohm's ideas, as is fitting in a volume in his honour, leading scholars in the field explore diverse conceptualizations of the 'work' within the contexts of a specific repertory, over four main sections. Music in Theory and Practice studies the link between treatises and musical practice, and analyses how historical writings can reveal period views on the 'work' in music before 1800. Art and Social Process: Music in Court and Urban Societies looks at the social and cultural practices informing composition from the late Renaissance until the mid-eighteenth century, and interrogates current notions of canon formation and the exchange between local and foreign traditions. Creating an Opera Industry focuses on how genre and artistic autonomy were defined in operas from diverse eras and countries, explaining the role of literature and politics in this process. Finally, The Crisis of Modernity treats nineteenth-century music, offering new models for 'work' and 'context' to challenge reigning theories of the meaning of these terms.
Author(s): Melania Bucciarelli
Publisher: Boydell Press
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 464
CONTENTS
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LIST OF FIGURES
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LIST OF MUSIC EXAMPLES
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LIST OF TABLES
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PREFACE
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CONTRIBUTORS
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ABBREVIATIONS
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Laudatio......Page 20
Introduction......Page 23
I Music in Theory and Practice......Page 28
1 Anonymous Arabic Treatises on Music: Lost Legacies, Hidden Answers......Page 30
2 Compositional Practices in Trecento Music: Model Books and Musical Traditions......Page 43
3 Trompetta and Concordans Parts in the Early Fifteenth Century......Page 57
4 Recording for Posterity: Some Reflections on the Memorialising of Early Renaissance Music......Page 93
5 How to Sin in Music: Doctor Navarrus on Sixteenth-Century Singers......Page 105
II Art and Social Process: Music in Court and Urban Societies
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6 Traditions and Practices in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Sacred Polyphony: The Use of Solo Voices with Instrumental Accompaniment......Page 124
7 ‘The City Full of Grief ’: Music for the Exequies of King Philip ii......Page 138
8 Giovanni Alberto Ristori and his Serenate at the Polish Court of Augustus iii, 1735–1746......Page 158
9 ‘Cantate, que me veux-tu?’ or: Do Handel’s Cantatas Matter?......Page 178
10 Two Köchel Numbers, One Work......Page 204
III Creating an Opera Industry
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11 Identity and Poetic Style: The Case of Rosmene by Giuseppe Domenico de Totis......Page 218
12 How Operatic is Vivaldi’s Juditha triumphans?......Page 233
13 Venice and the East: Operatic Readings of Tasso’s Armida in Early Eighteenth-Century Venice......Page 251
14 Literary Motifs in Metastasio’s and Jommelli’s Ciro riconosciuto......Page 269
15 Producing Stars in Dramma per musica......Page 294
16 The Pre-revolutionary Origins of‘ Terrorisme musical’......Page 313
17 Pieces into Works: Cherubini’s Substitute Arias for the Théâtre Feydeau......Page 331
18 At the Tavern with Manzoni and Verdi: I promessi sposi and the Dramaturgy of La forza del destino......Page 355
IV The Crisis of Modernity
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19 The Acoustic Proximity of Temporal Distance: Auratic Sonority in Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen......Page 374
20 Creating a Concept of ‘Nazi Musicology’......Page 393
21 Et in Arcadia adhuc : Observations on the Continuing Evolution of the ‘Pastoral Idea’......Page 410
EPILOGUE
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Reinhard Strohm: List of Publications......Page 434
INDEX
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Tabula Gratulatoria......Page 463
