ENGLISH

Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music

By Danuta Mirka , Kofi Agawu

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521888298, 9780521888295
LCC
ML195 .C66 2008
Open Library ID
OL16383797M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6490104 bytes)
Edition
illustrated edition
Pages
357\357
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

Written by ten leading scholars, 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 form, metre, bass lines and dance topoi. Students and scholars of music history, theory and analysis will find in this volume a set of challenging, state-of-the-art essays that will stimulate debate about musical meaning and engender further study.

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