Clementi and the woman at the piano - Erin Helyard

Clementi and the woman at the piano

Virtuosity and the market for music in eighteenth-century London

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Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2022
Voltaire Foundation (Verlag)
978-1-80085-625-7 (ISBN)
79,95 inkl. MwSt
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This book takes as its historical point of departure the radical appearance in 1779 of technically difficult keyboard music in a set of six sonatas (Op. 2) by Muzio Clementi. The difficult passages contained in this opus are unique amongst keyboard music published for a market that was understood at the time to consist almost entirely of female amateur keyboardists. Previously actively discouraged from practicing or improving their skills due to the restrictive ideologies in place, Clementi’s music increasingly affords female pianists a new kind of musical expression. Clementi and the woman at the piano: Virtuosity and the market for music in eighteenth-century London maps the social, musical, and gendered implications of technically difficult music and helps to underline important changes in Enlightenment culture and keyboard practice. Clementi’s activities initiated the now familiar and modern concepts of repetitive musical practice, the work-concept, virtuosity itself, and the division between amateur and professional. Additionally, Clementi promotes a radical new mode of expression for female pianists that is at first highly controversial but slowly gains acceptance due to a widespread promotion of his music, instruments, and methods. Clementi’s career is in many respects a perfect case study for the tensions between Enlightenment thinking and new Romantic ideologies.**

Erin Helyard has been acclaimed as an inspiring conductor, a virtuosic and expressive performer of the harpsichord and fortepiano, and as a lucid scholar who is passionate about promoting discourse between musicology and performance. He is Artistic Director of the award-winning Pinchgut Opera in Sydney, Australia.

List of Musical Examples                                                                                 

List of Tables                                                                                       

List of Figures                                                                                                 

Preface                                                                                                

Chapter 1: Clementi and the Enlightenment

Chapter 2: Mozart’s Insult and the Irritations of Virtuosity

Chapter 3: Keyboard Performance and Gender in Late Eighteenth-Century London

Chapter 4: Clementi’s “Black Joke”

Chapter 5: Male Theoria and Female Praxis

Chapter 6: Clementi in the Marketplace and the Conservatoire   

Conclusion: Clementi’s Coin

Appendix: Ideological differences regarding keyboard practicing/music education in 36 conduct books and treatises, 1741-1838      

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ; 2022:06
Zusatzinfo 34 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort Liverpool
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Instrumentenkunde
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-80085-625-3 / 1800856253
ISBN-13 978-1-80085-625-7 / 9781800856257
Zustand Neuware
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