The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music

Composers, Consumers, Communities

Marie Sumner Lott (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2018
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08384-6 (ISBN)

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Music played an important role in the social life of nineteenth-century Europe, and music in the home provided a convenient way to entertain and communicate among friends and colleagues. String chamber music, in particular, fostered social interactions that helped build communities within communities. Marie Sumner Lott examines the music available to musical consumers in the nineteenth century, and what that music tells us about their tastes, priorities, and activities. Her social history of chamber music performance places the works of canonic composers such as Schubert, Brahms, and Dvoøák in relation to lesser-known but influential peers. The book explores the dynamic relationships among the active agents involved in the creation of Romantic music and shows how each influenced the others' choices in a rich, collaborative environment. In addition to documenting the ways companies acquired and marketed sheet music, Sumner Lott reveals how the publication and performance of chamber music differed from that of ephemeral piano and song genres or more monumental orchestral and operatic works. Several distinct niche markets existed within the audience for chamber music, and composers created new musical works for their use and enjoyment.

Insightful and groundbreaking, The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music revises prevailing views of middle-class influence on nineteenth-century musical style and presents new methods for interpreting the meanings of musical works for musicians both past and present.

Marie Sumner Lott is an associate professor of music history and literature at Georgia State University and a winner of a 2013 ASCAP-Deems Taylor award.

CoverTitleCopyrightContentsList of Figures and TablesList of Musical ExamplesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. String Chamber Music and Its Audiences in the Nineteenth Century1. Publishing Chamber Music: Archival Evidence for Chamber Music Production and Consumption2. “Domesticating” the Foreign in Arrangements of Operas, Folk Songs, and Other Works for Chamber Ensembles3. Music for Men of Leisure: An Examination of the Domestic String Style4. Redefining the “Progressive” Style in Responses to Beethoven’s Late Quartets5. Creating “Progressive” Communities through Programmatic Chamber Music6. Audience and Style in Brahms’s String Chamber Music7. The Diversity of Dvořák’s String Quartet AudiencesAppendix 1 J. Strunz, string quartet transcription of no. 18, “Prière” (Prayer), from Meyerbeer’s Robert le DiableAppendix 2 C. W. Henning, string quartet transcription of no. 8, “Leise, leise, fromme Weise” (Gently, gently, pious words), from Weber’s Der FreischützAppendix 3 M. Kässmayer, string quartet arrangement of “Mein Herz ist im Hochland” (My heart is in the Highlands) from Deutsche Lieder, op. 14, no. 4NotesBibliographyIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	5 black & white photographs, 2 charts, 77 music examples, 21 tables
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-252-08384-9 / 0252083849
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08384-6 / 9780252083846
Zustand	Neuware