The rise of musical classics in eighteenth-century England : a study in canon, ritual, and ideology
The English invented the idea of the musical classics. Eighteenth-century England was the first place where old musical works were performed regularly and reverentially, and where a collective notion of such works--'ancient music'--first appeared
Print Book, English, 1992
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford [England], New York, 1992
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 274 pages ; 25 cm
9780198162872, 9780198166078, 0198162871, 0198166079
25628752
1. Introduction
2. The Learned Tradition of Ancient Music
3. The Modern Classics: Corelli and Purcell
4. The Music Festival and the Oratorio Tradition
5. The Public of the Concert of Antient Music
6. The Repertory of the Concert of Antient Music
7. The Ideology of Ancient Music
8. The 1784 Handel Commemoration as Political Ritual
9. Conclusion
Appendix: Repertory of the Concert of Antient Music, 1776-1790