Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician

Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician
Author: Frederick Niecks
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2023-09-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 338703704X

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period

Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period
Author: John R. Decker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000435490

Early modern audiences, readerships, and viewerships were not homogenous. Differences in status, education, language, wealth, and experience (to name only a few variables) could influence how a group of people, or a particular person, received and made sense of sermons, public proclamations, dramatic and musical performances, images, objects, and spaces. The ways in which each of these were framed and executed could have a serious impact on their relevance and effectiveness. The chapters in this volume explore the ways in which authors, poets, artists, preachers, theologians, playwrights, and performers took account of and encoded pluriform potential audiences, readers, and viewers in their works, and how these varied parties encountered and responded to these works. The contributors here investigate these complex interactions through a variety of critical and methodological lenses.

Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment

Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment
Author: Rebecca Cypess
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2022-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226817911

Musical salons as liminal spaces: salonnières as agents of musical culture -- Sensuality, sociability, and sympathy: musical salon practices as enactments of Enlightenment --Ephemerae and authorship in the salon of Madame Brillon -- Composition, collaboration, and the cultivation of skill in the salon of Marianna Martines -- The cultural work of collecting and performing in the salon of Sara Levy -- Musical improvisation and poetic painting in the salon of Angelica Kauffman -- Reading musically in the salon of Elizabeth Graeme -- Conclusion.