Great Transformation of Musical Taste Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms

Name: Great Transformation of Musical Taste Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms
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ISBN: 9780521882606

ISBN-10: 0521882605

ISBN-13: 9780521882606

Edition: 2008

Authors: William Weber

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Grounded in knowledge of thousands of programs, this book examines how musical life in London, Leipzig, Vienna, Boston, and other cities underwent a fundamental transformation in relationship with movements in European politics. William Weber traces how musical taste evolved in European concert programs from 1750 to 1870, as separate worlds arose around classical music and popular songs. In 1780 a typical program accommodated a variety of tastes through a patterned miscellany of genres, held together by diplomatic musicians. This framework began weakening around 1800 as new kinds of music appeared, from string quartets to quadrilles to ballads, which could not easily coexist on the same…

Book details

List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/28/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 356
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

William Weber is Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach.



Illustrations of concert programs


Transcriptions of concert programs


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Miscellany and Collegiality, 1750-1800



Concepts and contexts



Variations on miscellany



Crisis and Experiment, 1800-1848



Musical idealism and the crisis of the old order



The rise of the chamber music concert



Convention and experiment in benefit and virtuoso concerts



Toward classical repertory in orchestral concerts



Promenade concerts: rise of the "pops"



Founding a New Order, 1848-1875



Classical music achieves hegemony



Vocal music for the general public


Epilogue: the state of the musical community in 1914


Selected bibliography


Index