Originally published in 1970 this collection of essays by a renowned international musicologist is both imaginative in scope and authoritative in scholarship. The works of such famous composers as Joseph Haydn, Handel, J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach are discussed in detail, as are the achievements of other composers of that era.
Originally published in 1970 this collection of essays by a renowned international musicologist is both imaginative in scope and authoritative in scholarship. The works of such famous composers as Joseph Haydn, Handel, J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach are discussed in detail, as are the achievements of other composers of that era Lenoardo Leo, Johann Mattheson, Puccinni, Clementi and so on. The book includes essays by Gerald Abraham, Robert Donington, Putnam Aldrich and William G. Waite, among others. These essays are also of wide biographical, sociological and historical interest. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Music is a major contribution to aesthetics in music.
1.Some Eighteenth-Century Polish Symphonies Gerald Abraham
2. English
Pre-Romantic Poetry in Settings by German Composers Otto E. Albrecht
3.
Rhythmic Harmony As Taught by Joahann Philipp Kirnberger Putnam Aldrich
4.
Clementis Musical Characteristics Opus 19 Eva Badura-Skoda
5. Joseph
Haydens Ave Regina in A Irmgard Becker-Glauch
6. On Vulgar Music and Poetry
Found in Unexplored Minor Sources of Eighteenth-Century Lute Tablatures
Wolfgang Boetticher
7. The Early Zürich Neujahrsblätter Andres Briner
8. An
Evaluation of Johann Matthesons Opera, Cleopatra George J. Buelow
9. The
Chorale in the Baroque Era and J.S. Bachs Contribution to It Walter E.
Buszin 10.Joseph Haydn and the Freemasons Jacques Chailley
11. Some
Observations on Liturgy, Text and Structure in Haydns Late Masses Martin
Chusid
12. Tonal Expoloitation in the Later Quartets of Haydn Louise E.
Cuyler
13. Vocal Embellishment in a Handel Aria Winton Dean
14. Amore
Traditore: A Problem Cantata Robert Donington
15. Johann Adam Hillers
Critical Prospectus for a Music Library Vincent Duckles
16. Similarities in
the Works of Haydn Georg Feder
17. Eighteenth Century Litaniae Laretanae From
the Repertory of the Viennese Province of the Franciscan Order Hellmut
Federhofer and Renate Fedehofer
19. The Problem of Heritage in the Musical
Life of the Present K. G. Fellerer
20. Arietta Variata Kurt von Fischer
21.
Geog Benda, the Pioneer of the Melodrama Edith Vogl Garrett
22. The Keyboard
Sonatas of Félix Mįximo López John Gillespie
23. J. S. Bach and the Tradition
of Keyboard Transcriptions Theodor Göllinger
24. Progressive and Conservative
Tendencies in the Violoncello Concertos of Leonardo Leo Douglass Green
25.
BWV
131. Bachs First Cantata Gerhard Herz
26. A Rare Contemporary Edition of
Haydns Hymn for the Emperor Anthony Van Hoboken
27. Weber on Opera Dolores
Menstell Hsu
28. Haydn Listings in the Rediscovered Leuckart Suppleements Jan
Larue
29. The Closing Numbers of Die Schöpfung Siegmund Levarie
30. Haydn As
Student and Critic of Fux Alfred Mann
31. Modulaiton in C.P.E. Bachs Versuch
William J. Mitchell
32. Ars Combinatoria Leonard G. Ratner
33. Father and
Son: Some Attributions to J.S. Bach by C.P.E. Bach Gloria Rose
34. A Bold
Enharmonic Modulatory Model in Joseph Haydns String Quartet Lįszló Somfai
35. Mozarts Gagliarda Bence Szabolcsi
36. Bernard Lamy William G. White
37.
A Homage of Piccinni to Gluck Emanuel Winternitrz
38. The Fairy-Tale of the
Neapolitan Opera Hellmuth Christian Wolff
39. A Selected Bibliograhy of the
Works of Karl Geiringer Martin A. Silver
H.C. Robbins Landon (1926-2009) was an acclaimed American musicologist, journalist and broadcaster and an authority on Joseph Haydn.
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