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Catalogue of Printed Music Published Between 1487 and 1800 Now in the British Museum
Author | : British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Catalogue of Printed Music Published Between 1487 and 1800 Now in the British Museum: A-K.- v. 2. L-Z and First supplement
Author | : British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Charles Avison's Essay on Musical Expression
Author | : Pierre Dubois |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1351572350 |
Charles Avison's Essay on Musical Expression, first published in 1752, is a major contribution to the debate on musical aesthetics which developed in the course of the 18th century. Considered by Charles Burney as the first essay devoted to 'musical criticism' proper, it established the primary importance of 'expression' and reconsidered the relative importance of harmony and melody. Immediately after its publication it was followed by William Hayes's Remarks (1753), to which Avison himself retorted in his Reply. Taken together these three texts offer a fascinating insight into the debate that raged in the 18th century between the promoters of the so-called 'ancient music' (such as Hayes) and the more 'modern' musicians. Beyond matters of taste, what was at stake in Avison's theoretical contribution was the assertion that the individual's response to music ultimately mattered more than the dry rules established by professional musicians. Avison also wrote several prefaces to the published editions of his own musical compositions. This volume reprints these prefaces and advertisements together with his Essay to provide an interesting view of eighteenth-century conceptions of composition and performance, and a complete survey of Avison's theory of music.
The Scoring of Baroque Concertos
Author | : C. R. F. Maunder |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781843830719 |
The concertos of Vivaldi, Bach, Handel and their contemporaries are some of the most popular, and the most frequently performed, pieces of classical music; and the assumption has always been they were full orchestral works. This book takes issue with this orthodox opinion to argue quite the reverse: that contemporaries regarded the concerto as chamber music. The author surveys the evidence, from surviving printed and manuscript performance material, from concerts throughout Europe between 1685 and 1750 (the heyday of the concerto), demonstrating that concertos were nearly always played one-to-a-part at that time. He makes a particularly close study of the scoring of the bass line, discussing the question of what instruments were most appropriate and what was used when. The late Dr RICHARD MAUNDER was Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.
The Musical World of Charles Avison
Author | : Simon D.I. Fleming |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2024-12-02 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1040253091 |
This book explores the works and influence of the eighteenth-century British composer Charles Avison. Although he spent most of his life in the northern town of Newcastle upon Tyne, Avison went on to have a marked impact on the musical life of Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century. His concertos become part of the national concert repertory, while his critical treatise, An Essay on Musical Expression, shaped debates about musical aesthetics. This book provides the first sustained examination of Avison’s musical works and compositional techniques, and it traces how his music not only drew on influences from European composers but also reworked them and in turn, influenced others. Considering Avison’s musical compositions, the circumstances around their composition and dissemination, and their place in music history, the author confronts preconceptions about the quality of Avison’s music, reveals new dimensions of his work as a composer, and demonstrates the enduring popularity and impact of his music. The author also draws on Avison’s writings to consider how closely he adheres to his own musical aesthetics. Reassessing Avison’s contribution to British music history, this study makes the case for understanding him as an important figure in the development and spread of musical styles across eighteenth-century England.
Charles Avison in Context
Author | : Roz Southey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2017-10-31 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 131716833X |
Despite recent interest in music-making in the so-called ’provinces’, the idea still lingers that music-making outside London was small in scale, second-rate and behind the times. However, in Newcastle upon Tyne, the presence of a nationally known musician, Charles Avison (1709-1770), prompts a reassessment of how far this idea is still tenable. Avison’s life and work illuminates many wider trends. His relationships with his patrons, the commercial imperatives which shaped his activities, the historical and social milieu in which he lived and worked, were influenced by and reflected many contemporary movements: Latitudinarianism, Methodism, the improvement of church music, the aesthetics of the day including new ideas circulating in Europe, discussions of issues such as gentility, and the new commercialism of leisure. He can be considered as the notional centre of a web of connections, both musical and non-musical, extending through every part of Britain and into both Europe and America. This book looks at these connections, exploring the ways in which the musical culture in the north-east region interacted with, and influenced, musical culture elsewhere, and the non-musical influences with which it was involved, including contemporary religious, philosophical and commercial developments, establishing that regional centres such as Newcastle could be as well-informed, influential and vibrant as London.
Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author | : DavidWyn Jones |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1351557408 |
This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field looks at various aspects of musical life in eighteenth-century Britain. The significant roles played by institutions such as the Freemasons and foreign embassy chapels in promoting music making and introducing foreign styles to English music are examined, as well as the influence exerted by individuals, both foreign and British. The book covers the spectrum of British music, both sacred and secular, and both cosmopolitan and provincial. In doing so it helps to redress the picture of eighteenth-century British music which has previously portrayed Handel and London as its primary constituents.
Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum
Author | : British Museum. Department of Manuscripts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Manuscripts |
ISBN | : |