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Music in the Eighteenth Century
- Author: Frisch, Walter
- Author: Rice, John
Music in the Eighteenth Century
- Author: Frisch, Walter
- Author: Rice, John
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John Rice's Music in the Eighteenth Century takes the reader on an engrossing Grand Tour of Europe's musical centers, from Naples, to London, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, and St. Petersburg —with a side trip to the colonial New World. Against the backdrop of Europe's largely peaceful division into Catholic and Protestant realms, Rice shows how "learned" and "galant" styles developed and commingled. While considering Mozart, Haydn, and early Beethoven in depth, he broadens his focus to assess the contributions of lesser-known but significant figures like Johann Adam Hiller, Francois-André Philidor, and Anna Bon. Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises six volumes of moderate length, each written in an engaging style by a recognized expert. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest sense—as sounds notated, performed, and heard—focusing not only on composers and works, but also on broader social and intellectual currents.
Contents
- 1. The Encyclopedic Century
- 2. Learned and Galant
- 3. Naples
- 4. Carnival Opera in Rome and Venice
- 5. Instrumental Music in Italy and Spain
- 6. Paris of the Ancien Regime
- 7. Georgian London
- 8. Vienna under Empress Maria Theresa
- 9. Leipzig and Berlin
- 10. Courts of Central Europe: Mannheim, Bayreuth, and Eisenstadt/Eszterhaza
- 11. Galant Music in the New World
- 12. St. Petersburg under Catherine the Great
- 13. Foreigners in Paris: Gluck, Mozart, Salieri, Cherubini
- 14. Mozart?s Vienna
- 15. Prague
- 16. London in the 1790s
- 17. Vienna in the Napoleonic Era
