The invention of "folk music" and "art music" : emerging categories from Ossian to Wagner / Matthew Gelbart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gelbart, Matthew, author.

Series:

New perspectives in music history and criticism ; 16.

New perspectives in music history and criticism ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--History and criticism.

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

Music--Europe--19th century--History and criticism.

Music--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Invention of 'Folk Music' & 'Art Music'

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed with creativity and musical origins, and classify music along these lines. Matthew Gelbart argues that folk music and art music became meaningful concepts only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and only in relation to each other. He examines how cultural nationalism served as the earliest impetus in classifying music by origins, and how the notions of folk music and art music followed - in conjunction with changing conceptions of nature, and changing ideas about human creativity. Through tracing the history of these musical categories, the book confronts our assumptions about different kinds of music.

Contents:

Introduction; 1. Function to origin: national identity and national genius emerge, c. 1700-1780; 2. From pastoral to picturesque: nature, art, and genre in the later eighteenth century; 3. Genius versus Art in the creative process: 'national' and 'cultivated' music as categories, 1760-1800; 4. The invention of folk modality, 1775-1840; 5. 'Folk' and 'tradition': authenticity as musical idiom from the late eighteenth century onward; 6. Organic 'art music' and individual original genius: aestheticizing the folk collective; 7. Local nation and universal folk: the legacy of geography in musical categories; 8. Folk and art music in the modern western world.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611153403

9780511353406

0511353405

9781107178236

1107178231

9781281153401

1281153400

9780511353987

0511353987

9781139131933

1139131931

9780511355103

0511355106

9780511481918

0511481918

9780511354564

0511354568

9780511355622

0511355629

OCLC:

437193489

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07639 hdl