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Author Owens, Samantha

Title Music at German Courts, 1715-1760 : Changing Artistic Priorities
Published Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (506 pages)
Contents Frontcover; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; FOREWORD; PREFACE; EDITORIAL NOTES; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; 1 'Das gantze Corpus derer musicirenden Personen' : An Introduction to German Hofkapellen; Kingdoms and Electorates; 2 The Court of Saxony-Dresden; 3 The Saxon Court of the Kingdom of Poland; 4 The Court of Brandenburg-Prussia; 5 The Palatine Court in Mannheim; Duchies; 6 The Court of Württemberg-Stuttgart; 7 The Court of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg; 8 The Courts of Saxony-Weißenfels, Saxony-Merseburg, and Saxony-Zeitz; Principalities and Prince-Bishoprics
9 The Court of Anhalt-Zerbst10 The Court of Sondershausen; 11 The Court of Würzburg; Landgraviates and Margraviates; 12 The Court of Hesse-Darmstadt; 13 The Court of Baden-Durlach in Karlsruhe; 14 The Court of Brandenburg-Culmbach-Bayreuth; 15 'Die vornehmste Hof-Tugend' : German Musicians' Reflections on Eighteenth-Century Court Life; INDEX; Backcover
Summary What emerges from the wealth of primary source material examined in this volume is an in-depth picture of music-making within the daily life of individual courts, featuring a cast of music directors, instrumentalists, and vocalists, together with numerous support staff drawn from across Europe. Music at German Courts serves to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of eighteenth-century German court music establishments without losing sight of what these Kapellen had in common
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Music -- Germany -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Musicians -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Musicians -- Germany -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
Chapels (Music) -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
MUSIC -- General.
Chapels (Music)
Music
Musicians -- Economic conditions
Musicians -- Social conditions
Hofmusik
Hofmusiker
Germany
Deutschland
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Reul, Barbara M.
Stockigt, Janice B.
ISBN 9781846159312
1846159318
1280377615
9781280377617