Music and the City

Musical Cultures and Urban Societies in the Southern Netherlands and Beyond, c.1650-1800

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

AvStefanie Beghein,Bruno Blonde,Eugeen Schreurs

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Little is known about the ways in which early modern musical cultures were integrated within their broader urban environments. Building on recent trends within urban musicology, the authors of this volume aim to transcend descriptive overviews of institutions and actors involved with music within a given city. Instead, they consider the urban environment as the constitutive context for the making of music as a significant aspect of urban society and identity. Through selected case studies and by focusing on three "musical circuits"-opera and theater music, sacred music, and secular songs-this book contributes to a more effective understanding of music in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century urban societies in the southern Netherlands and beyond. Musicological and historical research perspectives are fruitfully integrated, as well as insights from theater scholarship and literary criticism. With attention to the musical life behind the traditional institutions, the circulation of repertoires, and musical cultures in peripheral urban environments or in cities "in decay," Music and the City reveals the societal dimension of music in urban life.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-12-10
Mått160 x 239 x 12 mm
Vikt312 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor186
FörlagLeuven University Press
ISBN9789058679550

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Table of contentsMusic and the city. Musical cultures and urban societies in the Southern Netherlands and beyond, c. 1650-1800Stefanie Beghein & Bruno BlondéI. The urban stage -; staging the city“Les operas etaient en vogue”. Opera in a city in crisis: Antwerp between 1682 and 1794Timothy De PaepeOpera in a different language. Opera translations in the Dutch Republic in the eighteenth centuryRudolf RaschMusic-making ghosts: eighteenth-century Rome as operatic memory machineBruno FormentII. The church and the streetsMusic and funeral practices in Antwerp, c. 1650-1750 Stefanie BegheinChurch music and minstrel music in the Southern Netherlands, with a special focus on AntwerpEugeen SchreursThe church, the street, the tower, and the home as sites of religious music-making in urban Baroque GermanyTanya KevorkianIII. Private musicSerious songs, musical practices and sociability in Paris at the end of the seventeenth centuryAnne-Madeleine GouletApollo's gifts. Dutch songbooks for the urban youth of the eighteenth centuryLouis P. Grijp

The objectives of the conference 'Sounds of the City' were to approach music from a non-institutional perspective (but aren't theatres institutions?), and to demonstrate the permeability of repertories and better locate the place of music in urban social life. Although the geographic variety of the subjects addressed in the proceedings hinders their progress towards the second objective, they nevertheless bring to light interesting lines of enquiry that deserve further attention.Henri Vanhulst, (translated by Chris Murray), Music and Letters, Volume 96, Issue 1, Pp. 123-124.