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{"title":"The Comedians of the King: Opéra Comique and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution Julia Doe Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021 pp. vii + 314, ISBN 978 0 226 74339 4","authors":"Olivia Bloechl","doi":"10.1017/S1478570622000252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478570622000252","url":null,"abstract":"The opéra-comique encompassed a striking variety of lyrical forms and subject matter across its long history, but two characteristics have been seen as defining features: its use of spoken dialogue and its popularity. Both characteristics, in a schematic account of old-regime musical theatre, contrast readily with the opéra-comique ’ s more prestigious, fully sung counterpart, the tragédie en musique. The popularity of opéra-comique lay partly in its origins outside the ‘ legitimate ’ compan-ies and theatres patronized by the Crown and partly in its ability to appeal to audiences that spanned the French social hierarchy. Indeed, this popular quality has, with good reason, been so closely associated with opéra-comique that a recent book by David Charlton integrates its history within a broader study of ‘ popular opera ’ in eighteenth-century France ( Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)). In contrast, Julia Doe ’ s new study, The Comedians of the King: Opéra Comique and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution , focuses on opéra-comique ’ s fortunes in the decades just before the Revolution, and it yields a rather different view of the genre ’ s development and its popularity. The book ’ s Introduction and six chapters, including a substantial Epilogue, offer a study of the institutional and genre history of opéra-comique in France during the pivotal decades of the 1760s to the 1790s. As the book ’ s title suggests, two ‘ revolutions ’ , one aesthetic and the other political, haunt the discussion that unfolds across its chapters. Its central question, as I read it, is how we should view the relationship of opéra-comique to the dramatic cultural and political transformations of the later eighteenth century, with which the genre has been so intimately linked in French opera historiography.","PeriodicalId":11521,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth Century Music","volume":"53 4 1","pages":"84 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88438113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mozart and Salzburg: Mozart Society of America and Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Joint Conference Salzburg, 26–29 May 2022","authors":"John A. Rice","doi":"10.1017/S1478570622000288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478570622000288","url":null,"abstract":"musicologists","PeriodicalId":11521,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth Century Music","volume":"24 1","pages":"120 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78995872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Handel as Miscellany","authors":"Alison DeSimone","doi":"10.1017/S1478570622000227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478570622000227","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract During the early eighteenth century, music composed by George Frideric Handel began to circulate in miscellaneous publications of songs and arias. His music appeared in various forms. Some publications, such as four notable pocket collections published in the mid-1720s, preserve the music largely unchanged, although within a new sonic context. Other publications completely transform arias and even overtures into vocal works with new texts, creating layers of musical associations and meanings. Unauthorized appearances of Handel's music in songbook miscellanies and single-sided prints show alternative ways in which consumers may have heard and experienced the composer outside of the opera house or a concert setting. Examining these alternative sources for Handel's music allows for an enriched assessment of which works of the composer were critically and commercially appreciated during the early eighteenth century. Analysing appearances of Handel's music in songbook anthologies also offers insight into how musical miscellanies became ubiquitous forms of the production and reception of his works in the early eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":11521,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth Century Music","volume":"3 1","pages":"61 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85103642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Theatre as a Nursery of Language’: Learning French through Vaudeville Tunes in Eighteenth-Century England","authors":"Erica P. Levenson","doi":"10.1017/S1478570622000343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478570622000343","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines how French vaudeville tunes circulated in England through both theatrical performances and French-language textbooks (or ‘grammars’). My central concern is to consider how audiences in London – who had little exposure to the rich satirical and cultural connotations that these tunes had acquired over years of performance in Paris – might have been able to grasp their significance within staged works performed by visiting Parisian troupes between the years 1718 and 1735. I suggest that in tracing the transmission of tunes from France to England, scholars should consider a wider range of print sources, since vaudevilles had a social life extending beyond the plays in which they were performed. To this end, I focus on analysing vaudevilles found in French ‘grammars’. The pedagogical nature of these sources explicitly puts on display how French culture was translated for an English readership. By comparing the tunes found in grammars with plays that used the same tunes, I reveal both how Londoners could have become acquainted with the Parisian understanding of French tunes and how the grammar books could have shifted the meanings of these tunes for English readers and audiences. Ultimately, the circulation of French tunes abroad through grammars directs our attention to the material and cultural practices undergirding the mobility of eighteenth-century musical culture.","PeriodicalId":11521,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth Century Music","volume":"1 1","pages":"13 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88380952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cosmic Harmonies: A Symposium Celebrating the Life, Science, Music, and Legacy of William Herschel (1738–1822) University of York, 19 June 2022","authors":"Rachel Cowgill, S. Waltz","doi":"10.1017/s1478570622000318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1478570622000318","url":null,"abstract":"The year 2022 saw the two hundredth anniversary of the death of William Herschel, a profoundly significant figure in the field of astronomy, but one who made his early living as a musician – as an oboist, violinist, harpsichordist, organist, composer and impresario. After leaving a military band in his native Hanover for an unsuccessful two-year stint in London (1757–1759), Herschel moved to the north of England (1760), where he composed his symphonies and many other works as an itinerant musician in and around Richmond, Newcastle, Sunderland, Durham, Pontefract, Doncaster, Leeds and Halifax. In 1766 he accepted an invitation to take up the post of organist at the new Octagon Chapel in Bath, where from the following year he became a mainstay of the musical scene until 1782. In Bath William was joined by other musical family members including his sister Caroline, who assisted him first in musical and then in astronomical duties, ultimately becoming a distinguished astronomer in her own right. Herschel’s astronomical interests and construction of very high-quality telescopes, beginning in 1773, brought him international and lasting fame when in 1781 he discovered the planet now called Uranus. He came to the attention of George III, who summoned him to Windsor and effectively ended the musical portion of his career, at the age of forty-three. For the rest of his life Herschel made numerous ground-breaking contributions: designing large telescopes; mapping the Milky Way system of stars and the Sun’s motion in it; cataloguing and classifying thousands of star clusters, nebulae, variable stars and double stars; proving the effectiveness of gravity outside the solar system; discovering several moons around Saturn and Uranus; discovering infrared radiation (from the Sun); postulating an evolving universe with stars and nebulae that are born, age and die; estimating the age of the universe; and arguing that all stars and planets are populated with intelligent beings. For Herschel and other eighteenth-century thinkers, contemporary academia’s separation of music and astronomy across the divide of the arts and the sciences would have been hard to understand, given that both endeavours proceeded for them on mathematical principles. In this spirit, ‘Cosmic Harmonies: A Symposium Celebrating the Life, Science, Music, and Legacy of William Herschel (1738–1822)’ at the University of York – organized by musicologists Rachel Cowgill (University of York) and Sarah Waltz (University of the Pacific) and astronomer Woodruff T. Sullivan III (University of Washington) – brought together an interdisciplinary confluence of musicology, performance, composition, astronomy, data science and philosophy. The aim was to explore new aspects of Herschel’s work as composer, instrumentalist and astronomer in the intellectual, creative and cultural contexts of his time, including the Herschels’ legacy in connections between science and art today. Three sessions of papers, two panel ","PeriodicalId":11521,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth Century Music","volume":"1 1","pages":"122 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74545632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Haydn from the ‘Frontier’","authors":"M. A. Marín","doi":"10.1017/S1478570622000355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478570622000355","url":null,"abstract":"from","PeriodicalId":11521,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth Century Music","volume":"1 1","pages":"5 - 11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73068987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Archivo de Guatemala: Music from the Guatemala City Cathedral Archive El Mundo / Richard Savino (director) Naxos 8.574295, 2021; one disc, 74 minutes","authors":"Alejandro Vera","doi":"10.1017/S1478570622000392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478570622000392","url":null,"abstract":"The musical corpus of the old cathedral in Antigua Guatemala, which was heavily damaged by an earthquake in 1773, was moved to the country’s new capital city in 1779 and is preserved there in the Archivo Histórico Arquidiocesano Francisco de Paula García Peláez (frequently referred to as the Archivo Histórico Arquidiocesano de Guatemala). It is one of the most important in Latin America. According to Omar Morales Abril (‘Teatralización de villancicos paralitúrgicos del siglo XVII’ (PhD dissertation, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2021)), this corpus is divided into three large sections: plainchant choir books, polyphonic books and ‘music papers’ or parts. The last of these alone comprises about three thousand records of mainly manuscript pieces, two thousand of which are villancicos, that is, music with poetic texts in the vernacular. Along with local repertory, the collection includes music from various places in the Hispanic world, such as Mexico City, Puebla, Lima, Madrid, Toledo and Seville. In addition, it contains hundreds of works from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, unlike other Spanish-American cathedral archives, which mostly preserve music from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is therefore one of Latin America’s largest and oldest musical collections. For this reason, a new recording dedicated to the music of the Guatemalan Cathedral during the colonial period can only be welcomed, especially an album such as this, performed by the experienced musicians of El Mundo under the able directorship of Richard Savino. Among the many options that this extensive corpus offers to performers, Savino has chosen to focus on the ‘music papers’ and, more particularly, on the villancico. The characteristics of this genre, which combines features of sacred and secular music (the latter mainly from theatre and dance), fit well with Savino’s idea of Latin American music of the time. As he expresses it in the booklet, this repertory would have been influenced by ‘folk music’, and its performers would have used percussion instruments, giving rise to a unique sound that would then persist to the present day. I leave for the end some reflections on this matter. Among the selected composers, the chief protagonist is the Guatemalan Rafael Antonio Castellanos (died 1791), chapel master of the cathedral in the second half of the eighteenth century, to whom six of the seventeen recorded pieces belong (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 16). The other local composer on the album is his predecessor, Manuel José de Quirós (died 1765), who is represented by two works (tracks 12 and 15). Savino also includes villancicos by composers who never visited the New World but whose work has been preserved in the Archivo Histórico Arquidiocesano de Guatemala: Sebastián Durón (1660–1716) (tracks 7 and 10) and José de Torres (c1670–1738) (track 11). This decision seems reasonable because it reflects the musical life of the time, characterized by the coexisten","PeriodicalId":11521,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth Century Music","volume":"49 1","pages":"99 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78304659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ECM volume 20 issue 1 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s1478570623000027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1478570623000027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11521,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth Century Music","volume":"11 1","pages":"b1 - b2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82070019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Die leidende und am Creutz sterbende Liebe Jesu Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690–1749), ed. Warwick Cole Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2020 pp. xxxii + 220, ISBN 978 1 987 20613 5","authors":"Hansjörg Drauschke","doi":"10.1017/S147857062200032X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S147857062200032X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11521,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth Century Music","volume":"26 1","pages":"94 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87830708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Notes on Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s1478570622000409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1478570622000409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11521,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth Century Music","volume":"1 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75744129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}