This collection of essays brings together the research on Johann Mattheson (1681-1764), an influential musician and chronicler of musical thought in eighteenth-century Germany. The essays explore the cultural climate of Hamburg during Mattheson's lifetime; Mattheson as a composer; Mattheson's relationship to his contemporaries; and Mattheson's influence on developing musical theories and aesthetics.
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This collection of essays brings together the current research on Johann Mattheson (1681-1764), an influential musician and chronicler of musical thought in eighteenth-century Germany. The essays explore the cultural climate of Hamburg during Mattheson's lifetime; Mattheson as a composer; Mattheson's relationship to his contemporaries; and Mattheson's influence on developing musical theories and aesthetics.
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It is a great honor as well as a pleasure to speak tonight on the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Johann Mattheson. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nicht mehr gebunden, exchanged resolution, multiple fugues, circolo mezzo, loci topici, aria text, oratorio text, galant homme, der seit, fugal writing, double counterpoint, geschrieben hat, ist anzunehmen, affective content, upper voice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Johann Mattheson, State Papers, Melodische Wissenschaft, Cyril Wich, Das Lied des Lammes, Collegium Hudemanno, Musicalischer Patriot, Vollkommenen Capellmeister, New York, Patriotischen Gesellschaft, Reinhard Keiser, Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Charles Blunt, Hamburger Oper, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Wich, Musicalisches Lexicon, Stadtbibliothek Hamburg, Critischer Musikus, John Passion, Deutschen Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Merchant Adventurers, Musikalische Bibliothek, Friedrich von Hagedorn, Handschrift Matthesons New!
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It is a great honor as well as a pleasure to speak tonight on the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Johann Mattheson. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nicht mehr gebunden, exchanged resolution, multiple fugues, circolo mezzo, loci topici, aria text, oratorio text, galant homme, der seit, fugal writing, double counterpoint, geschrieben hat, ist anzunehmen, affective content, upper voice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Johann Mattheson, State Papers, Melodische Wissenschaft, Cyril Wich, Das Lied des Lammes, Collegium Hudemanno, Musicalischer Patriot, Vollkommenen Capellmeister, New York, Patriotischen Gesellschaft, Reinhard Keiser, Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Charles Blunt, Hamburger Oper, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Wich, Musicalisches Lexicon, Stadtbibliothek Hamburg, Critischer Musikus, John Passion, Deutschen Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Merchant Adventurers, Musikalische Bibliothek, Friedrich von Hagedorn, Handschrift Matthesons New!
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- Handel: A Documentary Biography (Da Capo Press music reprint series) by Otto Erich Deutsch on page 173, and page 350
- The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents, Revised Edition by Hans T. David on page 305
- Opera in the Development of German Critical Thought by Gloria Flaherty on page 477
- The Thirty Years War (New York Review Books Classics) by C. V. Wedgwood on page 19
- George Frideric Handel (Dover Books on Music) by Paul Henry Lang on page 462
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- Die Melodielehre des ' Vollkommenen Capellmeisters' von Johann Mattheson. by Birger Petersen-Mikkelsen on 19 pages
- Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism) by David Yearsley on 5 pages
- 18th-Century Keyboard Music (Routledge Studies in Musical Genre) by Robert Marshall on page 67, page 120, and page 122
- The Stylus Phantasticus And Free Keyboard Music Of The North German Baroque by Paul Collins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach by David Schulenberg in Back Matter
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