Consuming music : individuals, institutions, communities, 1730-1830 / edited by Emily H. Green and Catherine Mayes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Green, Emily, editor.

Mayes, Catherine, 1979- editor.

Series:

Eastman studies in music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music publishing--History--18th century.

Music publishing.

Music publishing--History--19th century.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 255 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2017.

Summary:

The successful sale and distribution of music has always depended on a physical and social infrastructure. Though the existence of that infrastructure may be clear, its organization and participants are among the least preserved and thus least understood elements of historical musical culture. Who bought music and how did those consumers know what music was available? Where was it sold and by whom? How did the consumption of music affect its composition? How were consumers' musical tastes shaped and by whom? Focusing on the long eighteenth century, this collection of nine essays investigates such questions from a variety of perspectives, each informed by parallels between the consumption of music and that of dance, visual art, literature, and philosophy in France, the Austro-German lands, and the United States. Chapters relate the activities of composers, performers, patrons, publishers, theorists, impresarios, and critics, exploring consumers' tastes, publishers' promotional strategies, celebrity culture, and the wider communities that were fundamental to these and many more aspects of musical culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Music's first consumers : publishers in the late eighteenth century / Emily H. Green

Inside a Viennese Kunsthandlung : Artaria in 1784 / Rupert Ridgewell

Morality and the "fair-sexing" of Telemann's faithful music master / Steven Zohn

Eighteenth-century mediations of music theory : meter, tempo, and affect in print / Roger Mathew Grant

Musical style as commercial strategy in Romantic chamber music / Marie Sumner Lott

In Vienna "only waltzes get printed" : the decline and transformation of the Contredanse Hongroise in the early nineteenth century / Catherine Mayes

The power to please : gender and celebrity self-commodification in the early American republic / Glenda Goodman

Exchanging ideas in a changing world : Adolph Bernhard Marz and the Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung in 1824 / Patrick Wood Uribe

Parisian opera between commons and commodity, ca. 1830 / Peter Mondelli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781580465779

1580465773

OCLC:

957264890