The century of Bach and Mozart : perspectives on historiography, composition, theory, and performance /

Other Authors: Gallagher, Sean,, Kelly, Thomas Forrest, Wolff, Christoph
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Department of Music, 2008.
Series:Isham Library papers ; Harvard publications in music ; 7
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Table of 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 wär" 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.