The birth of the orchestra : history of an institution, 1650-1815 / John Spitzer and Neal Zaslaw.

Av: Medverkande: Språk: Engelska Utgivning: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004Beskrivning: 614 s. ill., musiknoterISBN:
  • 0198164343
Ämne: DDK-klassifikation:
  • 780.903 22 (machine generated)
SAB-klassifikation:
  • Ijb.4
  • Ijb.43
  • Ijb.45
  • Ijl
Innehåll:
Introduction ; Pre-orchestral ensembles ; Lully's orchestra ; Corelli's orchestra ; The orchestra in Italy ; The orchestra in France ; The orchestra in Germany ; The orchestra in England ; The classical orchestra ; Placement, seating, and acoustics ; Orchestral performance practices ; Life and times of an eighteenth-century orchestra musician ; The birth of orchestration; The meaning of the orchestra ; Appendices: Sample of orchestras, 1754-1759 ; Sample of orchestras, 1773-1778 ; Sample of orchestras, 1791-1796 ; Sample of orchestras, 1808-1818
Sammanfattning: Traces the emergence of the orchestra from 16th-century string bands to the "classical" orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and their contemporaries. The authors examine how the orchestra became a pan-European phenomenon and a central institution in European life
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Introduction ; Pre-orchestral ensembles ; Lully's orchestra ; Corelli's orchestra ; The orchestra in Italy ; The orchestra in France ; The orchestra in Germany ; The orchestra in England ; The classical orchestra ; Placement, seating, and acoustics ; Orchestral performance practices ; Life and times of an eighteenth-century orchestra musician ; The birth of orchestration; The meaning of the orchestra ; Appendices: Sample of orchestras, 1754-1759 ; Sample of orchestras, 1773-1778 ; Sample of orchestras, 1791-1796 ; Sample of orchestras, 1808-1818

Traces the emergence of the orchestra from 16th-century string bands to the "classical" orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and their contemporaries. The authors examine how the orchestra became a pan-European phenomenon and a central institution in European life

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