Music and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe: A Source Book

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University of Chicago Press, 15. 8. 1994 - 421 strán (strany)
This book collects key writings about eighteenth century music . It brings together for the first time in one place, a wide selection of essential documents not only about music theory and practice, but about the historical, philosophical, aesthetic, ideological, and literary debates which held sway during a century when musical thought and criticism gained a privileged position in the culture of Europe.

Enrico Fubini offers a sampling of English, French, German, and Italian writings on topics ranging from Enlightenment rationalism and the theories of harmony to German musical culture and the polemics on J. S. Bach. Organized by topic and historical period these selections go beyond writings dealing exclusively with specific musical works to larger issues of theory and the reception of musical ideas in the culture at large. The selections are from books, journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and letters; the contributors include Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Grimm, Alfieri, Rameau, Quantz, Gluck, Tartini, Leopold and W. A. Mozart, and C. P .E. Bach. Many are translated here for the first time.

With general and chapter introductions, restored footnotes, and other valuable annotations, and a biographical appendix, this anthology will interest music scholars, students, and teachers.

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THE FIRST POLEMICS ON OPERA IN ITALY
35
Gian Vincenzo Gravina from On Tragedy 1715
36
Ludovico Antonio Muratori from On Perfect Italian Poetry 1706
39
Pier Jacopo Martello from On Ancient and Modern Tragedy 1714
48
Benedetto Marcello from Theatre a la Mode 1720
60
THE ITALIANS AND THE FRENCH THE GREAT QUERELLE
66
Francois Raguenet from A Comparison between the French and Italian Music and Operas
68
JeanLaurent Lecerf de la Vieville from Comparison of French and Italian Music
73
Tramelogedia 1796
259
Pietro Metastasio Letter to Saverio Mattei at Naples 1770
264
GERMAN MUSICAL CULTURE AND THE CONTROVERSY REGARDING BACH
270
Johann Adolf Scheibe Passage on J S Bach from a Letter of 1737
272
Johann Abraham from Impartial Remarks on a Dubious Passage in the Sixth Issue of Der critische Musikus 1738
273
Johann Mattheson from The Complete Music Director 1739
277
Johann Joachim Quantz from A Treatise on How to Play the Flute 1752
285
Leopold Mozart from A Treatise on the Fundamentals of the Violin 1756
287

NoelAntoine Pluche from The Spectacle of Nature 1746
79
Voltaire from The Temple of Taste
84
Jean Le Rond dAlembert from Essay on the Origins of Language 1781
85
JeanJacques Rousseau from Essay on the Origins of Language 1781
91
Denis Diderot from Additions to the Letter on the Deaf and Dumb 1751
103
Denis Diderot from Rameaus Nephew 1760
104
Friedrich Melchior Grimm from The Little Prophet of Boehmischbroda
112
Friedrich Melchior Grimm from the article Poeme lyrique in the Encyclopedie 1765
120
EUROPEAN RATIONALISM AND THEORIES OF HARMONY
129
Johann Joseph Fux from Steps to Parnassus 1725
131
JeanPhilippe Rameau from Treatise on Harmony 1722
135
JeanPhilippe Rameau from Observation on Out Musical Instinct and on Its Principle 1767
141
Giuseppe Tartini from On the Principles of Musical Harmony Contained in the Diatonic Genus 1767
145
Denis Diderot from General Principles of the Science of Sound 1748
150
THE BIRTH OF HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE REPORTS OF FOREIGN TRAVELERS IN ITALY
154
Jacques Bonnet from History of Music and of Its Effects from Its Origins to the Present 1715
156
John Brown from A Dissertation on the Rise Union and Power the Progressions Separations and Corruptions of Poetry and Music 1763
161
Giovanni Battista Martini from History of Music 1757
173
Charles Burney from A General History of Music 1776
181
John Hawkins from A General History of the Science and Practice of Music 1776
193
Charles de Brosses from Letter to M de Maleteste 173940
199
Samuel Sharp from Letters from Italy 1767
209
Giuseppe Baretti from An Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy 1768
214
Johann Nikolaus Forkel from General History of Music 1788
216
THE REACTION OF ITALIAN HUMANISTS AND LITERATI TO MUSIC
231
Francesco Algarotti from Essay on Opera 1755
233
Antonio Planelli from Opera 1772
240
Francesco Milizia from Complete Formal and Material Treatise on the Theater 1794
252
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg from Guide to Playing Keyboard Instruments 175561
290
Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach from Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments 175361
292
Johann Mattheson from The Latest Study of the Opera 1744
295
TOWARD THE REVALUATION OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
299
Johann Mattheson from The Complete Music Director 1739
301
Johann Joachim Quantz from A Treatise on How to Play the Flute 1752
305
Denis Diderot and Anton Bemetzrieder from Keyboard Lessons and Principles of Harmony 1771
308
Charles Acison from An Essay on Musical Expression 1753
310
SENSISM AND EMPIRICAL CURRENTS
320
Joseph Addison from The Spectator 1711
321
JeanBaptiste Dubos from Critical Reflections on Poetry Painting and Music 1740
324
Pietro Verri from Music 1765
333
Pietro Verri from Discourse on the Nature of Pleasure and Sorrow 1774
338
THE ANCIENTS AND THE MODERNS
340
Antonio Ecimeno y Pujades from On the Origin and the Rules of Music with the History of Their Development Decline and Renewal 1774
341
Esteban de Arteaga from Revolutions of the Italian Musical Theater from Its Origin to the Present 1785
346
Vincenzo Manfredini from Defense of Modern Music and Its Celebrated Performers 1788
351
THE QUERELLE BETWEEN THE GLUCKISTS AND THE PICCINNISTS
358
Ranieri de Calzabigi from Essay on the Dramatic Poetry of the Abbe P Metastasio 1755
359
Ranieri de Calzabigi and Christoph Willibald Gluck Preface to Alceste 1769
364
JeanFrancois Marmontel from Essay on the Progress of Music in France 1777
366
JeanFrancois de la Harpe from Lyceum or Course in Ancient and Modern Literature 1803
373
MichelPaul Guy de Chabanon from Observations on Music and Principally on the Metaphysics of Art 1779
378
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Three Letters to His Father 1781
384
Biographical Dictionary
391
Bibliography
413
Index
415
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