Edition |
Pbk. ed. |
Description |
xi, 427 p. : ill., facsims., music ; 23 cm. |
Series |
Isham Library papers ; 7 |
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Harvard publications in music ; 22 |
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Harvard publications in music ; 22.
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Isham Library papers ; 7.
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Note |
"In honor of Christoph Wolff"--Cover. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Part I. Eighteenth-century music in its intellectual contexts. The German eighteenth century : marking time / David Blackbourn -- Fundamenta partiturae : thorough bass and foundations of eighteenth-century composition pedagogy / Thomas Christensen -- Mishmash or synthesis? : on the psychagogic form of The creation / Hermann Danuse ; (translated by Nicolas Betson) -- Six of one : the opus concept in the eighteenth century / Elaine Sisman -- Part II. Composing and hearing music in the eighteenth century. Bach's passions and the textures of time / John Butt -- Bach and hypocrisy : appearance and truth in Cantatas 136 and 179 / Eric Chafe -- Tartini and his texts / Sergio Durate -- Part III. Sources and transmission. The evolution of "Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel war" BWV 80/5 / Daniel R. Melamed -- Bach and Mozart : from the perspective of different documentary evidence / Hans-Joachim Schulze -- On Johann Sebastian Bach's creative process : observations from his drafts and sketches / Peter Wollny -- One more time : Mozart and his cadenzas / Neal Zaslaw -- Part IV. Issues in historiography. On ancient languages : the historical idiom in the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Ulrich Konrad ; (translated by Thomas Irvine) -- Eighteenth-century music as a socio-political metaphor? / Reinhard Strohm -- The century of Handel and Haydn / James Webster -- Mozart's fantasy, Haydn's caprice : what's in a name? / Gretchen Wheelock -- Part V. Interpreting eighteenth-century music. The clavier speaks / Christopher Hogwood -- Ten years of Bach cantatas / Ton Koopman -- Mozart's working methods in the piano concertos / Robert Levin. |
Subject |
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Added Author |
Gallagher, Sean, 1965-
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Kelly, Thomas Forrest.
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Wolff, Christoph.
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ISBN |
0964031752 (pbk.) |
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9780964031753 (pbk.) |
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