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Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn

Autor Simon McVeigh
en Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 2006
During the second half of the eighteenth century, the pace of London's concert life quickened dramatically, reflecting both the prosperity and the commercial vitality of the capital. The most significant development was the establishment of the public concert within the social and cultural life of fashionable society. The subscription concerts that premiered symphonies by J. C. Bach and Haydn were conspicuous symbols of luxury, even though they were promoted on broadly commercial lines. Drawing on hitherto untapped archival sources and a comprehensive study of daily newspapers, this book analyses audiences at venues as diverse as the Hanover Square Rooms, Vauxhall Gardens and City taverns. The musical taste of the London public is investigated in the light of contemporary theories of aesthetics, and there is detailed discussion of the financial and practical aspects of concert management and performance, in a period that encouraged enterprise and innovation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521028905
ISBN-10: 0521028906
Pagini: 324
Ilustrații: 13 b/w illus. 1 map
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Map of London in the second half of the eighteenth century; 1. Prologue; Part I. The Social Role of the Concert: 2. 'An exclusive principle': subscription and ancient concerts; 3. Other types of concert; 4. The concert in London life; Part II. Attracting an Audience: 5. The musical product: novelty and familiarity; 6. The musical product: programming; 7. Taste and national idioms; 8. Musical style: 'music intended to reach the heart'; 9. Musical style: the learned, the sublime and the dramatic; Part III. Concert Management and the Musician: 10. The finances of concert promotion; 11. Life as a professional musician; 12. The practicalities of concert promotion; 13. Epilogue; Appendices; Notes; Musical sources; Select bibliography; Index.

Recenzii

"...lends the subject important new perspectives." Notes
"...McVeigh's excellent book vastly increases our knowledge and understanding." Choice
"Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn has been ingeniously constructed to read both as history and parable....Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn not only charts a period of exceptional growth, but it organizes an astonishing number of untapped sources to do so." Times Literary Supplement
"...an exhaustive guide to concert performances in the latter half of the eighteenth century. This is an encyclopedic work assembled by a meticulous scholar....a guide of the first order." James H. Johnson, Journal of Modern History
"The range of things taken up heighten awareness of what goes into the making of any musical culture." Key Reporter

Descriere

This book is a detailed investigation of a lively and innovative period in London's cultural life.