Research Catalog

Title

The century of Bach and Mozart : perspectives on historiography, composition, theory, and performance / edited by Sean Gallagher, Thomas Forrest Kelly.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Department of Music ; Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Gallagher, Sean, 1965-
• Kelly, Thomas Forrest
• Wolff, Christoph

Description

xi, 427 p. : ill., music; 25 cm.

Summary

Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stand as representatives of European music of the eighteenth century, composers whose works reflect intellectual, religious, and aesthetic trends of the period. Research on their compositions continues in many ways to shape our broader understanding of eighteenth century musical thought and its contexts. This collection of essays offers a variety of perspectives on the two composers, as well as some of their important contemporaries, Haydn in particular. The book addersses topics such as the historiography of eighteenth-century music, concepts of time and musical form, the idea of the musical work and its relation to publishing practices, compositional process, and performance practice.--From publisher's description.

Series Statement

• Harvard publications in music ; 22
• Isham Library papers ; 7

Uniform Title

• Harvard publications in music 22.
• Isham Library papers 7.

Subject

• Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 > Criticism and interpretation
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1700-1799
• Music > 18th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "In honor of Christoph Wolff."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Eighteenth-century music in its intellectual contexts. The German eighteenth century : marking time / David Blackbourn -- Fundamenta partiturae : thorough-bass and foundations of eighteenth-century composition pedagogy / Thomas Christensen -- Mishmash or synthesis? : on the psychagogic form of The creation / Hermann Danuse ; (translated by Nicolas Betson) -- Six of one : the opus concept in the eighteenth century / Elaine Sisman -- Part II. Composing and hearing music in the eighteenth century. Bach's passions and the textures of time / John Butt -- Bach and hypocrisy : appearance and truth in Cantatas 136 and 179 / Eric Chafe -- Tartini and his texts / Sergio Durate -- Part III. Sources.and transmission. The evolution of "Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär" BWV 80/5 / Daniel R. Melamed -- Bach and Mozart : from the perspective of different documentary evidence / Hans-Joachim Schulze -- On Johann Sebastian Bach's creative process : observations from his drafts and sketches / Peter Wollny -- One more time : Mozart and his cadenzas / Neal Zaslaw -- Part IV. Issues in historiography. On ancient languages : the historical idiom in the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Ulrich Konrad ; (translated by Thomas Irvine) -- Eighteenth-century music as a socio-political metaphor? / Reinhard Strohm -- The century of Handel and Haydn / James Webster -- Mozart's fantasy, Haydn's caprice : what's in a name? / Gretchen Wheelock -- Part V. Interpreting eighteenth-century music. The clavier speaks / Christopher Hogwood -- Ten years of Bach cantatas / Ton Koopman -- Mozart's working methods in the piano concertos / Robert Levin.

ISBN

• 0964031736
• 9780964031739

LCCN

^^2007047106

OCLC

• 181862726
• SCSB-10471345

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library