Music & culture in eighteenth-century Europe : a source book / Enrico Fubini ; translated from the original sources by Wolfgang Freis, Lisa Gasbarrone, Michael Louis Leone ; translation edited by Bonnie J. Blackburn.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-414) and index.
Contents
1. The first polemics on opera in Italy -- 2. The Italians and the French: the great "Querelle" -- 3. European rationalism and theories of harmony -- 4. The birth of historiography and the reports of foreign travelers in Italy -- 5. The reaction of Italian humanists and literati to music -- 6. German musical culture and the controversy regarding Bach -- 7. Toward the revaluation of instrumental music -- 8. Sensism and empirical currents -- 9. The ancients and the moderns -- 10. The "Querelle" between the Gluckists and the Piccinnists.
