Music and the City: Musical Cultures and Urban Societies in the Southern Netherlands and Beyond, c.1650-1800

by Stefanie Beghein (Editor), Bruno Blondé (Editor), Eugeen Schreurs (Editor)

Overview

Little is known about the ways in which early modern musical cultures were integrated within their broader urban environments. Building on recent trends within urban musicology, the authors of this volume aim to transcend descriptive overviews of institutions and actors involved with music within a given city. Instead, they consider the urban environment as the constitutive context for the making of music as a significant aspect of urban society and identity.Through selected case studies and by focusing on three "musical circuits"—opera and theater music, sacred music, and secular songs—this book contributes to a more effective understanding of music in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century urban societies in the southern Netherlands and beyond. Musicological and historical research perspectives are fruitfully integrated, as well as insights from theater scholarship and literary criticism. With attention to the musical life behind the traditional institutions, the circulation of repertoires, and musical cultures in peripheral urban environments or in cities "in decay," Music and the City reveals the societal dimension of music in urban life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789058679550
Publisher:	Leuven University Press
Publication date:	01/15/2014
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Bruno Blondé is Research Professor at the Centre for Urban History (University of Antwerp).

Table of Contents

Music and the city. Musical cultures and urban societies in the Southern Netherlands and beyond, c. 1650-1800 Stefanie Beghein Bruno Blondé 7

I The Urban Stage - Staging the City

"Les operas etaient en vogue". Opera in a city in crisis: Antwerp between 1682 and 1794 Timothy De Paepe 19

Opera in a different language. Opera translations in the Dutch Republic in the eighteenth century Rudolf Rasch 39

Music-making ghosts: eighteenth-century Rome as operatic memory machine Bruno Forment 59

II The Church and the Streets

Music and funeral practices in Antwerp, c. 1650-1750 Stefanie Beghein 81

Church music and minstrel music in the Southern Netherlands, with a special focus on Antwerp Eugeen Schreurs 103

The church, the street, the tower, and the home as sites of religious music-making in urban Baroque Germany Tanya Kevorkian 127

III Private Music

Serious songs, musical practices and sociability in Paris at the end of the seventeenth century Anne-Madeleine Goulet 143

Apollo's gifts. Dutch songbooks for the urban youth of the eighteenth century Louis P. Grijp 161