Convent Music And Politics In Eighteenth Century Vienna

Author : Janet K. Page
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107039088
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Convent Music and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Vienna written by Janet K. Page and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janet K. Page explores the interaction of music and piety, court and church, as seen through the relationship between the Habsburg court and Vienna's convents. In the first full-length study of its kind, she reveals a golden age of convent music in Vienna and the convents' surprising engagement with contemporary politics.

Author : Janet K. Page
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139916599
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Convent Music and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Vienna written by Janet K. Page and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janet K. Page explores the interaction of music and piety, court and church, as seen through the relationship between the Habsburg court and Vienna's convents. For a period of some twenty-five years, encompassing the end of the reign of Emperor Leopold I and that of his elder son, Joseph I, the court's emphasis on piety and music meshed perfectly with the musical practices of Viennese convents. This mutually beneficial association disintegrated during the eighteenth century, and the changing relationship of court and convents reveals something of the complex connections among the Habsburg court, the Roman Catholic Church, and Viennese society. Identifying and discussing many musical works performed in convents, including oratorios, plays with music, feste teatrali, sepolcri, and other church music, Page reveals a golden age of convent music in Vienna and sheds light on the convents' surprising engagement with contemporary politics.

Author : David Wyn Jones
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271078
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music in Vienna 1700, 1800, 1900 written by David Wyn Jones and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. This book explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on three different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900.

Author : Nicholas Baragwanath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019751409X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Solfeggio Tradition written by Nicholas Baragwanath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers of the time write operas in a matter of days? The secret lies in the solfeggio tradition, a music education method that was fundamental to the training of European musicians between 1680 and 1830 a time during which professional musicians belonged to the working class. As disadvantaged children in orphanages learned the musical craft through solfeggio lessons, many were lifted from poverty, and the most successful were propelled to extraordinary heights of fame and fortune. In this first book on the solfeggio tradition, author Nicholas Baragwanath draws on over a thousand manuscript sources to reconstruct how professionals became skilled performers and composers who could invent and modify melodies at will. By introducing some of the simplest exercises in scales, leaps, and cadences that apprentices would have encountered, this book allows readers to retrace the steps of solfeggio training and learn to generate melody by 'speaking' it like an eighteenth-century musician. As it takes readers on a fascinating journey through the fundamentals of music education in the eighteenth century, this book uncovers a forgotten art of melody that revolutionizes our understanding of the history of music pedagogy.

Author : Bram Lambrecht
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004158715
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grief, Identity, and the Arts written by Bram Lambrecht and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grief, Identity and the Arts addresses the interplay between grief and identity in a broad range of artistic disciplines, historical periods, and geographical areas.

Author : Adeline Mueller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022662966X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood written by Adeline Mueller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Precocious in print -- Acting like children -- Kinderlieder and the work of play -- Cadences of the childlike -- Toying with Mozart.

Author : Matthew Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110880439X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers written by Matthew Head and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving beyond narratives of female suppression, and exploring the critical potential of a diverse, distinguished repertoire, this Companion transforms received understanding of women composers. Organised thematically, and ranging beyond elite, Western genres, it explores the work of diverse female composers from medieval to modern times, besides the familiar headline names. The book's prologue traces the development of scholarship on women composers over the past five decades and the category of 'woman composer' itself. The chapters that follow reveal scenes of flourishing creativity, technical innovation, and (often fleeting) recognition, challenging long-held notions around invisibility and neglect and dismissing clichés about women composers and their work. Leading scholars trace shifting ideas about composers and compositional processes, contributing to a wider understanding of how composers have functioned in history and making this volume essential reading for all students of musical history. In an epilogue, three contemporary composers reflect on their careers and identities.

Author : Amanda J. Haste
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000985946
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism written by Amanda J. Haste and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-first-century monastic communities represent unique social environments in which music plays an integral part. This book examines the role of music in Catholic, Anglican/Episcopalian and neo-monastic communities in Britain and North America, engaging closely with communities of practice to provide a penetrating insight into the role of music in self-care and as a vector for identity construction on both individual and community levels. The author explores the essential role of music in community dynamics, the rationale for using instruments, the implications of both chant-based and freestyle composition, gender-related differences in musical activity, the role of dance (‘music made visible’) in community life, the commodification of monastic music, the ‘Singing Nun’ phenomenon and the role of music in established and emerging neo-monastic communities. The result is a comprehensive and compelling study of the agency of music in the construction and expression of personal and community identity.

Author : Daniele Filippi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004349235
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Listening to Early Modern Catholicism written by Daniele Filippi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and multifaceted discussion of the sonic cultures developed within the diverse and dynamic matrix of Early Modern Catholicism (c.1450–1750), and of the role played by sound and music in defining Catholic experience.

Author : Georg Reutter the Younger
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1987208927
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mater dolorum written by Georg Reutter the Younger and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mater dolorum (1726) by Georg Reutter the Younger (1708–72) is a German-language oratorio for instruments, soloists, and chorus, intended for performance on Good Friday “at the Holy Sepulcher”—that is, before a before a model of the Holy Sepulcher exhibited in a church for Holy Week observances. One of this influential Viennese musician’s earliest known works, Mater dolorum was performed at the Augustinian convent of St. Agnes zur Himmelpforte in Vienna on Good Friday (19 April) 1726, when Reutter was only eighteen years old. It was repeated at least twice, in 1729 and in 1731 or 1732, and is known to have been performed elsewhere as well. Its libretto, written by playwright Heinrich Rademin (1674–1731), was during its time one of the best-known texts for oratorios to be performed “at the Holy Sepulcher” and is notable for its strong emotional characterizations. The present edition is based on a set of parts preserved at Kremsmünster Abbey in Upper Austria, which also include cuts and alterations marked in later by Georg von Pasterwiz (1730–1803), regens chori at the abbey, giving evidence of a shorter version of the oratorio performed during his tenure there.