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Music for a Mixed Taste Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works

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ISBN-10: 0195169778

ISBN-13: 9780195169775

Edition: 2007

Authors: Steven Zohn

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Georg Philipp Telemann gave us one of the richest legacies of instrumental music from the eighteenth century. Though considered a definitive contribution to the genre during his lifetime, his concertos, sonatas, and suites were then virtually ignored for nearly two centuries following his death. Yet these works are now among the most popular in the baroque repertory. In Music for a Mixed Taste, Steven Zohn considers Telemann's music from stylistic, generic, and cultural perspectives. He investigates the composer's cosmopolitan "mixed taste"-a blending of the French, Italian, English, and Polish national styles-and his imaginative expansion of this concept to embrace mixtures of the old…    
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Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/27/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 720
Size: 9.41" wide x 6.18" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English

Abbreviations
List of Musical Examples
List of Tables
List of Figures
Prologue: Styles and Sources
Telemann and the German Mixed Taste
Genius in the Closet
The Overture-Suites
Acquiring a Mixed Taste: Telemann as "grand partisan de la musique Francaise"
Telemann as Lullist
Tradition versus Innovation
The Concert en ouverture and Concerto en suite
The Overture-Suite in Retrospect
Telemann's Mimetic Art: The Characteristic Overture-Suites
Characteristic Titles/Staging the Overture-Suite
The Civic Water Music/Images of Court and Country
Telemann's Wit: Burlesque, Parody, and Satire
The Concertos
"Niemals recht von Herzen gegangen"?: Telemann's Concertos
The Eisenach Concertos
Concertos for the Eloquent Oboe
Concertos alla francese
Telemann and the German Ripieno Concerto
The Late Frankfurt and Hamburg Concertos
Telemann's Orchestras
Bach's Debt Repaid with Interest: A Case Study of Transformative Imitation
Bach's Borrowing, Telemann's Model
Bach, Telemann, and the Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics of Musical Borrowing
The Sonatas
"Something for Everyone's Taste": Telemann's Sonatas to 1725
Solos and Trios in the Italian Style
Trios alla francese
The "True Touchtone of a Genuine Contrapuntist": Quartets for Strings and Winds
When is a Quartet Not a Quartet?
Sonatas in Five to Seven Parts
Two Parisian Piracies
The Frankfurt Sonata Publications
Telemann and the Sonate auf Concertenart
Defining the Sonate auf Concertenart
Titles as Signifiers of Genre
Reimagining the Sonata (Concerto)
The Vivaldi Cult at Dresden and the Origins of the Sonate auf Concertenart
Telemann's Sonaten auf Concertenart
The "Sonate en concert" and French Vivaldisme
The Aesthetics of Mixed Genres
The Hamburg Publications
Telemann in the Marketplace: The Composer as Self-Publisher
Setting up Shop
Telemann's Subscribers
Production Methods
Closing Shop
Telemann fur Kenner und Liebhaber: The Music of the Hamburg Publications
Sonates sans basse
Essercizii musici
Reading the Faithful Music Master
Menuets and Marches
Quadri
Methodical Sonatas and Nouvelles sonatines
The Fantastic Style
Musique de table and Six ouvertures a 4 ou 6
Divertimenti
XII Solos a violin ou traverseere
Six concerts et six suites
An Omaggio a Corelli?
Parisian Sonatas
Galanterien
Telemann's Polish Style and the "True Barbaric Beauty" of the Musical Other
"Gedancken fur ein gantzes Leben": Telemann in Poland
"A Country in the Moon": Poland, Pastoral, and the Past
Representing Poland Musically
Afterward
Glossary
Bibliography
Index of Telemann's Compositions
General Index