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

by William Weber

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198166079
• ISBN13: 9780198166078
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"