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Oxford University Press, USA
Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works
Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works
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Georg Philipp Telemann gave us one of the richest legacies of instrumental music from the eighteenth century. Though considered a definitive contribution to the genre during his lifetime, his concertos, sonatas, and suites were then virtually ignored for nearly two centuries following his
death. Yet these works are now among the most popular in the baroque repertory. In Music for a Mixed Taste, Steven Zohn considers Telemann's music from stylistic, generic, and cultural perspectives. He investigates the composer's cosmopolitan mixed taste--a blending of the French, Italian,
English, and Polish national styles-and his imaginative expansion of this concept to embrace mixtures of the old (late baroque) and new (galant) styles. Telemann had an equally remarkable penchant for generic amalgamation, exemplified by his pioneering role in developing hybrid types such as the
sonata in concerto style (Sonate auf Concertenart) and overture-suite with solo instrument (Concert en ouverture). Zohn examines the extramusical meanings of Telemann's characteristic overture-suites, which bear descriptive texts associating them with literature, medicine, politics, religion,
and the natural world, and which acted as vehicles for the composer's keen sense of musical humor. Zohn then explores Telemann's unprecedented self-publishing enterprise at Hamburg, and sheds light on the previously unrecognized borrowing by J.S. Bach from a Telemann concerto. Music for a Mixed
Taste further reveals how Telemann's style polonaise generates musical and social meanings through the timeless oppositions of Orient-Occident, urban-rural, and serious-comic.
Author: Steven Zohn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/01/2015
Pages: 726
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780190247850
death. Yet these works are now among the most popular in the baroque repertory. In Music for a Mixed Taste, Steven Zohn considers Telemann's music from stylistic, generic, and cultural perspectives. He investigates the composer's cosmopolitan mixed taste--a blending of the French, Italian,
English, and Polish national styles-and his imaginative expansion of this concept to embrace mixtures of the old (late baroque) and new (galant) styles. Telemann had an equally remarkable penchant for generic amalgamation, exemplified by his pioneering role in developing hybrid types such as the
sonata in concerto style (Sonate auf Concertenart) and overture-suite with solo instrument (Concert en ouverture). Zohn examines the extramusical meanings of Telemann's characteristic overture-suites, which bear descriptive texts associating them with literature, medicine, politics, religion,
and the natural world, and which acted as vehicles for the composer's keen sense of musical humor. Zohn then explores Telemann's unprecedented self-publishing enterprise at Hamburg, and sheds light on the previously unrecognized borrowing by J.S. Bach from a Telemann concerto. Music for a Mixed
Taste further reveals how Telemann's style polonaise generates musical and social meanings through the timeless oppositions of Orient-Occident, urban-rural, and serious-comic.
Author: Steven Zohn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/01/2015
Pages: 726
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780190247850
About the Author
Steven Zohn is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Music Studies at Temple University. The recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the American Musicological Society, and the German Academic Exchange Service, he has published
widely on the music of the German late baroque. He is also a noted performer on historical flutes.
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