"This volume presents selected papers from the first conference of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, held between 30 April and 2 May 2004, on the Georgetown University campus"--Pref. Half title: Selected papers from the First Biennial Conference of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Washington, DC, 30 April to 2 May 2004. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Sacred music. A mid-18th-century devotional book from the Viennese convent of St. Jacob / Janet K. Page ; Church music, "classical" style, and the dialectic of old and new in late-18th-century musical culture / Jen-Yen Chen -- Italians abroad. Le quattro regioni : Vivaldi and the paradox of historical recognition / Bella Brover-Lubovsky -- Music in London. Evidence for Corellian style adagio improvisation in London concerts : the publications of Walsh and Hare (1707-1725) / Charles Gower Price -- Hamburg, Dresden, and Stockholm. Gottlob Harrer's sinfonias and society : cultural influence on style traits of an early sinfonia repertory in Dresden / R. Todd Rober -- Opera. Exoticisim in 18th-century Turinese opera : Motezuma in context / Margaret Butler ; Mozart, La clemenza di Tito, and aristocratic reaction in Bohemia / Daniel E. Freeman.
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