The English invented the idea of musical "classics". Eighteenth-century England was the first country where old musical works were performed regularly and reverentially, and where a collective notion of such works--"ancient music"--first appeared. This is the first book to explore the formation of musical classics in regard to repertory and social context. It examines the performance of old music in eighteenth-century England, from the interest in music of the Elizabethan period through the performance of works by Henry Purcell, Arcangelo Corelli, and other English and Italian composers, to the development of festivals that featured choral-orchestral works of Purcell and Handel. The book examines closely the political and social reasons for these developments. In addition, it shows how they laid the groundwork for the classical music tradition of the nineteenth century.

The Rise of Musical Classics in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study in Canon, Ritual, and Ideology

Arts & Photography

Weber, William

Music

Oxford University Press

The English invented the idea of musical "classics". Eighteenth-century England was the first country where old musical works were performed regularly and reverentially, and where a collective notion of such works--"ancient music"--first appeared. This is the first book to explore the formation of musical classics in regard to repertory and social context. It examines the performance of old music in eighteenth-century England, from the interest in music of the Elizabethan period through the performance of works by Henry Purcell, Arcangelo Corelli, and other English and Italian composers, to the development of festivals that featured choral-orchestral works of Purcell and Handel. The book examines closely the political and social reasons for these developments. In addition, it shows how they laid the groundwork for the classical music tradition of the nineteenth century.

These sets of exercises review economic concepts presented in the text. They can be given as homework assignments or used by students to practice for exams. Answers are available in the instructor's manual.

Homework Sets for Macroeconomics for Today

Business & Money

MYERS, Amy

Economics

South-Western College Pub.

These sets of exercises review economic concepts presented in the text. They can be given as homework assignments or used by students to practice for exams. Answers are available in the instructor's manual.

Homework Sets for Microeconomics for Today

The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms

Grounded in knowledge of thousands of programs, this book examines how musical life in London, Leipzig, Vienna, Boston, and other cities underwent a fundamental transformation in relationship with movements in European politics. William Weber traces how musical taste evolved in European concert programs from 1750 to 1870, as separate worlds arose around classical music and popular songs. In 1780 a typical program accommodated a variety of tastes through a patterned 'miscellany' of genres, held together by diplomatic musicians. This framework began weakening around 1800 as new kinds of music appeared, from string quartets to quadrilles to ballads, which could not easily coexist on the same programs. Utopian ideas and extravagant experiments influenced programming as ideological battles were fought over who should govern musical taste. More than a hundred illustrations or transcriptions of programs enable readers to follow Weber's analysis in detail.

Cambridge University Press

Grounded in knowledge of thousands of programs, this book examines how musical life in London, Leipzig, Vienna, Boston, and other cities underwent a fundamental transformation in relationship with movements in European politics. William Weber traces how musical taste evolved in European concert programs from 1750 to 1870, as separate worlds arose around classical music and popular songs. In 1780 a typical program accommodated a variety of tastes through a patterned 'miscellany' of genres, held together by diplomatic musicians. This framework began weakening around 1800 as new kinds of music appeared, from string quartets to quadrilles to ballads, which could not easily coexist on the same programs. Utopian ideas and extravagant experiments influenced programming as ideological battles were fought over who should govern musical taste. More than a hundred illustrations or transcriptions of programs enable readers to follow Weber's analysis in detail.

First published in 1975, Music and the Middle Class made a trail-blazing contribution to the social history of music, bringing together sociological and historical methods that have subsequently become accepted as central to the discipline of musicology. Moreover, the major themes of the book are ones which scholars today continue to grapple with: the nature of the middle class(es) and their role in cultural definition; the concept of taste publics distinct from social status; and the establishment of the musical canon. This classic text is reissued here in Ashgate's Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain series, though of course the book ranges beyond its study of London to discuss in detail the contrasting concert life of Paris and Vienna. This edition features a substantial new preface which takes into account the significant work that has been done in this field since the book first appeared, and provides a unique opportunity to assess the impact the book has had on our thinking about the European middle class and its role in musical life.

Music and the Middle Class: The Social Structure of Concert Life in London, Paris and Vienna Between 1830 and 1848 (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain)

Routledge

Music and the middle class: The social structure of concert life in London, Paris and Vienna

Holmes & Meier Publishers

Music and the Middle Class: The Social Structure of Concert Life in London, Paris and Vienna between 1830 and 1848 (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain)

In 1812, less than forty years after breaking from Britain, the United States found itself in another war with its former colonial master. Now, during the two hundredth anniversary of the War of 1812 comes Neither Victor nor Vanquished, William Weber’s reappraisal of this critical but frequently misunderstood conflict. In the first half of the book, Weber reexamines the war’s military aspects, highlighting the asymmetric nature of the conflict as the world’s foremost naval power with a credible professional army stood against an idealist republic with commercial and agricultural aspirations but without an adequate navy and army. Weber also attempts to recalibrate popular conceptions of the U.S. forces’ generally poor performance during “Mr. Madison’s War,” and frames the War of 1812 in the context of both the Jeffersonian Revolution that preceded the war and the accelerated territorial expansion and consolidation of the United States that eventually led to the American Civil War. The book’s thought-provoking second half presents alternative outcomes for the War of 1812, reminding us that history is made, not predetermined. Various scenarios arise from differences in two key factors—the quality of generalship in both armies and the direction of the Napoleonic Wars, which Britain was simultaneously fighting. Weber imagines a worst case scenario for the young republic, an ending worse than a simple military defeat. Indeed, history might have provided a different answer to Francis Scott Key’s central question, “O, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave / O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?” A final what-if explores a nineteenth-century America that chooses to avoid the War of 1812 and, consequently, the rise of Andrew Jackson.

Neither Victor nor Vanquished: America in the War of 1812

History

Americas

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The Rise of Musical Classics in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study in Canon, Ritual, and Ideology

The Rise of Musical Classics in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study in Canon, Ritual, and Ideology

Homework Sets for Macroeconomics for Today

Homework Sets for Microeconomics for Today

The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms

The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms

Music and the Middle Class: The Social Structure of Concert Life in London, Paris and Vienna Between 1830 and 1848 (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain)

Music and the middle class: The social structure of concert life in London, Paris and Vienna

Music and the Middle Class: The Social Structure of Concert Life in London, Paris and Vienna between 1830 and 1848 (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain)

Neither Victor nor Vanquished: America in the War of 1812