Music in the Eighteenth Century (Western Music in Context: A Norton History)

by Rice, John A.; Frisch, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780393929188
• ISBN10: 0393929183
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-16
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

John Rice's Music in the Eighteenth Century 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, Rice 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. Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises six volumes of moderate length, each written in an engaging style by a recognized expert. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest sense-as sounds notated, performed, and heard-focusing not only on composers and works, but also on broader social and intellectual currents.

Table of Contents

Anthology Repertoire	p. x
Series Editor's Preface	p. xiii
Author's Preface	p. xv
The Encyclopedic Century	p. 1
The Grand Tour	p. 4
The "Fish-Tail"	p. 5
Demographics and Religion	p. 6
A Musicological Grand Tour	p. 10
For Further Reading	p. 14
Learned and Galant	p. 16
Old and New Musical Styles	p. 19
Binary and Da Capo Form: Musical Common Ground	p. 22
Coexistence and Interaction of Styles	p. 23
Teaching and Learning	p. 27
For Further Reading	p. 29
Naples	p. 30
Musical Education	p. 32
The Musico and Vocal Improvisation	p. 35
Theaters	p. 37
The Austrians in Naples, Vinci, and the Emergence of the Galant Style	p. 38
Pergolesi and the Comic Intermezzo	p. 41
For Further Reading	p. 43
Carnival Opera in Rome and Venice	p. 44
Metastasio and Opera Seria	p. 43
Theatrical Transvestism and the Roman Carnival: Latilla's Lafinta cameriera	p. 49
Venetian Ospedali	p. 54
"I Boast of My Strength": The Life and Music of Caterina Gabrielli	p. 55
For Further Reading	p. 58
Instrumental Music in Italy and Spain	p. 59
The Operatic Sinfonia, the Symphony, and the Orchestra	p. 60
The Piano	p. 62
Domenico Scarlatti	p. 66
Boccherini and the Music Publishing Business	p. 69
For Further Reading	p. 72
Paris of the Aacien Régime	p. 73
Tragédie Lyrique at the Opéra	p. 75
Opera Comique	p. 76
Instrumental Music in Parisian Salons	p. 82
Public Concerts and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges	p. 84
For Further Reading	p. 87
Georgian London	p. 88
Metropolis on the Thames	p. 88
Ballad Opera	p. 90
Italian Opera	p. 93
Public Concerts	p. 99
"Ancient" and Modern Instrumental Music	p. 101
For Further Reading	p. 105
Vienna under Empress Maria Theresa	p. 106
The Court Theater and the Theater at the Kärntnertor	p. 108
Crisis, Reform, and a New Court Theater	p. 108
Maria Theresa as Musician and Patron	p. 110
Gluck and Viennese Opéra Comique	p. 113
Operatic Reform and Orfeo ed Euridice	p. 114
Church Music: Vanhal's Missa Pastoralis	p. 116
Women at the Keyboard	p. 118
For Further Reading	p. 121
Leipzig and Berlin	p. 122
Leipzig in	p. 1750122
Hiller as Organizer of Concerts and Composer of Singspiele	p. 124
A Musician-King's Violent Coming of Age	p. 126
Frederick's Opera Company and Graun's Montezuma	p. 130
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach	p. 134
For Further Reading	p. 138
Courts of Central Europe: Mannheim, Bayreuth, and Eisenstadt/Eszterháza	p. 139
Carl Theodor and Stamitz at Mannheim	p. 140
Margravine Wimelmina and Anna Bon at Bayreuth	p. 143
Joseph Haydn in Vienna and Eisenstadt	p. 146
Haydn at Eszterháza and the Farewell Symphony	p. 149
For Further Reading	p. 152
Galant Music in the New World	p. 153
The Gold Cities of Minas Gerais	p. 156
An Italian Musician in Mexico City	p. 162
The Slave Colony of Jamaica and Samuel Felsted's Jonah	p. 163
Music for the Moravian Lovefeast	p. 166
For Further Reading	p. 169
St. Petersburg under Catherine the Great	p. 171
Catherine the Great as Operatic Patron	p. 174
Music and the Nobility: Nicholas and Prascovia	p. 178
Giuseppe Sarti, Dmitry Bortniansky, and Russian Church Music	p. 180
The Russian Horn Band	p. 182
John Field's Forward-Looking Piano Music	p. 183
For Further Reading	p. 185
Foreigners in Paris: Gluck, Mozart Salieri, Cherubini	p. 186
Gluck at the Opéra	p. 186
Mozart in Paris's Salons and Concert Rooms	p. 190
Antonio Salieri and Les Danaïdes	p. 193
Luigi Cherubini and the French Revolution	p. 194
For Further Reading	p. 199
Mozart's Vienna	p. 200
Joseph as Enlightened Monarch	p. 201
New Patterns of Patronage	p. 205
Public Concerts	p. 206
Music in the Home	p. 210
Opera Buffa	p. 216
For Further Reading	p. 220
Prague	p. 222
In the Shadow of White Mountain	p. 222
Italian Opera	p. 225
Mozart in Prague	p. 226
Don Giovanni	p. 228
A Coronation Opera for the "German Titus"	p. 233
For Further Reading	p. 236
London in the 1790s	p. 237
Rival Concert Series	p. 237
Haydn's First Visit to England	p. 239
Haydn's Second Visit	p. 246
For Further Reading	p. 253
Vienna in the Napoleonic Era	p. 254
Beethoven in Vienna: The 1790s	p. 256
Gottfried van Swieten and Haydn's The Seasons	p. 259
The Triumph of Cherubini's Les Deux Journées	p. 260
Church Music as Counter-Revolutionary Symbol	p. 261
Beethoven's Heroic Style	p. 264
The Pastoral Symphony as Celebration of the Enlightenment	p. 270
For Further Reading	p. 274
Glossary	p. A1
Endnotes	p. A9
Credits	p. A17
Index	p. A19
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