03509oam 2200469I 450 991095701400332120240506014743.01-315-09227-11-351-56161-810.4324/9781315092270 (CKB)4100000000773215(MiAaPQ)EBC4906841(OCoLC)1001911021(EXLCZ)99410000000077321520180706e20162014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierJohann Mattheson's Piaeces de clavecin and Das neu-ereoffnete Orchestre Mattheson's universal style in theory and practice /Margaret Seares1st ed.London :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (135 pages)Royal Musical Association Monographs ;25First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing.1-4724-3846-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.chapter 1 The Formative Years Leading up to Das neu-eroffnete Orchestre and the Pieces de clavecin -- chapter 2 Mattheson’s Das neu-eroffnete Orchestre of 1713 -- chapter 3 Les Pieces de clavecin/Harmonisches Denckmahl -- chapter 4 Mattheson’s German Heritage -- chapter 5 Music a la Mode: Mattheson’s Response to the Music of his Italian and French Contemporaries -- chapter 6 Mattheson and ‘Universalism’ -- chapter 7 Mattheson’s Dance Movements: An Amalgam of Styles."A prolific music theorist and critic as well as an established composer, Johannes Mattheson remains surprisingly understudied. In this important study, Margaret Seares places Mattheson's Piaeces de clavecin (1714) in the context of his work as a public intellectual who encouraged German musicians and their musical public to eschew what he saw as the hidebound traditions of the past, and instead embrace a universalism of style and expression derived from contemporary currents in music of the leading European nation's. Beginning with the early non-musical writings by Mattheson, Seares places them in the context of the cosmopolitan city-state of Hamburg, before moving to a detailed study of his first major musical treatise Das neu-ereoffnete Orchestre of 1713, in which he espoused his views about the musics of the past and present and, in particular, the characteristics of the musics of Germany, Italy, France and England. This latter section of the treatise, Part III, is edited and translated into English in the book's appendix - the first such translation available. Seares then moves on to an evaluation of the Piaeces de clavecin as a work in which Mattheson reflects in musical terms the themes of modernism (in the sense of a la mode) and universalism that are such a strong part of his writings of the period, and a work that represents an important precursor for the keyboard suites of Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Frideric Handel."--Provided by publisher.Royal Musical Association monographs ;25.MusicGermany18th centuryHistory and criticismMusicHistory and criticism.780.92Seares Margaret1834352Mattheson Johann1681-1764.1645198FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910957014003321Johann Mattheson's Piaeces de clavecin and Das neu-ereoffnete Orchestre4409806UNINA