Music and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe: A Source BookThis 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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Contents
Chapter | 35 |
Chapter | 66 |
in the Encyclopédie 1765 | 120 |
EUROPEAN RATIONALISM AND THEORIES OF HARMONY | 129 |
Chapter Four | 154 |
Chapter Five | 231 |
Antonio Planelli from Opera 1772 | 240 |
GERMAN MUSICAL CULTURE AND THE CONTROVERSY | 270 |
Chapter Eight | 320 |
Chapter Nine | 340 |
from Its Origin to the Present 1785 | 346 |
Chapter | 358 |
Preface to Alceste 1769 | 364 |
Principally on the Metaphysics of Art 1779 | 378 |
Biographical Dictionary | 391 |
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