Musical authorship from Schutz to Bach / Stephen Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Stephen, 1975- author.

Series:

Musical performance and reception.

Musical performance and reception

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Composition (Music)--History--17th century.

Composition (Music).

Composition (Music)--History--18th century.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

What did the term 'author' denote for Lutheran musicians in the generations between Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach? As part of the Musical Performance and Reception series, this book examines attitudes to authorship as revealed in the production, performance and reception of music in seventeenth-century German lands. Analysing a wide array of archival, musical, philosophical and theological texts, this study illuminates notions of creativity in the period and the ways in which individuality was projected and detected in printed and manuscript music. Its investigation of musical ownership and regulation shows how composers appealed to princely authority to protect their publications, and how town councils sought to control the compositional efforts of their church musicians. Interpreting authorship as a dialogue between authority and individuality, this book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore changing attitudes to the self in the era between Schütz and Bach.

Contents:

God, talent, craft : concepts of musical creativity

Between imitatio and plagiarism

Signs of individuality

Rites of musical ownership

The regulation of novelty

Authorship and performance.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 May 2019).

ISBN:

1-108-36917-0

1-108-37295-3

1-108-36328-8