Music and the City

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

Stefanie Beghein, Bruno Blonde, Eugeen Schreurs (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

2013
Leuven University Press (Verlag)
978-90-5867-955-0 (ISBN)

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This book contributes to a more effective understanding of music in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century urban societies in the southern Netherlands and beyond.

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.

Stefanie Beghein is Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban History (University of Antwerp). Bruno Blonde is Research Professor at the Centre for Urban History (University of Antwerp). Eugeen Schreurs is Lecturer and President of the Academic Board at the Royal Conservatory Antwerp (Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool, University College Antwerp).

Table of contents

Music and the city. Musical cultures and urban societies in the Southern Netherlands and beyond, c. 1650-1800
Stefanie Beghein & Bruno Blondé

I. The urban stage -; staging the city
“Les operas etaient en vogue”. Opera in a city in crisis: Antwerp between 1682 and 1794
Timothy De Paepe

Opera in a different language. Opera translations in the Dutch Republic in the eighteenth century
Rudolf Rasch

Music-making ghosts: eighteenth-century Rome as operatic memory machine
Bruno Forment

II. The church and the streets
Music and funeral practices in Antwerp, c. 1650-1750
Stefanie Beghein

Church music and minstrel music in the Southern Netherlands, with a special focus on Antwerp
Eugeen Schreurs

The church, the street, the tower, and the home as sites of religious music-making in urban Baroque Germany
Tanya Kevorkian

III. Private music
Serious songs, musical practices and sociability in Paris at the end of the seventeenth century
Anne-Madeleine Goulet

Apollo's gifts. Dutch songbooks for the urban youth of the eighteenth century
Louis P. Grijp

Zusatzinfo	5 Printed music items; 5 Graphs; 9 Tables, unspecified; 23 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Leuven
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 239 mm
Gewicht	312 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-5867-955-1 / 9058679551
ISBN-13	978-90-5867-955-0 / 9789058679550
Zustand	Neuware