Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music

Name: Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music
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ISBN: 9780521888295

ISBN-10: 0521888298

ISBN-13: 9780521888295

Edition: 2008

Authors: Danuta Mirka, Kofi Agawu

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Written by ten leading scholars of music, this volume assembles studies of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century music under the broad rubric of communication. That such an impulse motivates musical composition and performance in this period of European musical history is often acknowledged but seldom examined in depth. The book explores a broad set of issues, ranging from the exigencies of the market for books and music in the eighteenth century through to the deployment of dance topoi in musical composition. A number of close readings of individual works by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven draw on a sophisticated body of historically-appropriate technical resources to illuminate theories of…

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/10/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 356
Size: 7.17" wide x 10.00" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English



Notes on Contributors


Introduction




Communication and The Market



Communication and verisimilitude in the eighteenth century




Listening to listeners




'Mannichfaltige Abweichungen von der gewï¿½hnlichen Sonaten-Form': Beethoven's 'Piano Solo' Op. 31 No. 1 and the challenge of communication




Musical Grammar



Metre, phrase structure and manipulations of musical beginnings




National metrical types in music of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries




Schoenberg's 'second melody', or, 'Meyer-ed' in the bass




Rhetorical form and Topical Decorum



A metaphoric model of sonata form: two expositions by Mozart




Beethoven's Op. 18 No. 3, first movement: two readings, with a comment on analysis




Mozart's k331, first movement: once more, with feeling




Dance topoi, sonic analogues and musical grammar: communicating with music in the eighteenth century



Afterword



Bibliography


Index of concepts


Index of names and works