Research Catalog

Title

Music in eighteenth-century life : cities, courts, churches / edited by Mara E. Parker.

Publication

Ann Arbor [Mich.] : Steglein Pub., [2006]

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Additional Authors

• Parker, Mara, 1957-
• Society for Eighteenth-Century Music.

Description

x, 149 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Music > 18th century > History and criticism > Congresses
• Music > Social aspects > Europe > Congresses
• Muziek
• Muziekleven
• Steden
• Hofcultuur
• Kerkmuziek

Note

• "This volume presents selected papers from the first conference of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, held between 30 April and 2 May 2004, on the Georgetown University campus"--Pref.
• Half title: Selected papers from the First Biennial Conference of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Washington, DC, 30 April to 2 May 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Sacred music. A mid-18th-century devotional book from the Viennese convent of St. Jacob / Janet K. Page ; Church music, "classical" style, and the dialectic of old and new in late-18th-century musical culture / Jen-Yen Chen -- Italians abroad. Le quattro regioni : Vivaldi and the paradox of historical recognition / Bella Brover-Lubovsky -- Music in London. Evidence for Corellian style adagio improvisation in London concerts : the publications of Walsh and Hare (1707-1725) / Charles Gower Price -- Hamburg, Dresden, and Stockholm. Gottlob Harrer's sinfonias and society : cultural influence on style traits of an early sinfonia repertory in Dresden / R. Todd Rober -- Opera. Exoticisim in 18th-century Turinese opera : Motezuma in context / Margaret Butler ; Mozart, La clemenza di Tito, and aristocratic reaction in Bohemia / Daniel E. Freeman.

ISBN

• 0971985456 (alk. paper)
• 9780971985452 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006010135
• 99819538118

OCLC

• 65301997
• ocm65301997\
• SCSB-9088837

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries