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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gallagher, Sean, 1965-

Kelly, Thomas Forrest.

Wolff, Christoph.

Series:

Isham Library papers ; 7.

Harvard publications in music ; 22.

Harvard publications in music ; 22

Isham Library papers ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750--Criticism and interpretation.

Bach, Johann Sebastian.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791--Criticism and interpretation.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.

Music--18th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xi, 427 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

For Many Today Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stand as towering 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 by leading anthorities in the field offers a variety of new perspectives on the two composers, as well as some of their important contemporaries, Haydn in particular. Adderssing topics as diverse 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, these essays together constitute a major contribution to eighteenth-century studies.

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.

Notes:

"In honor of Christoph Wolff"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0964031736

9780964031739

OCLC:

181862726