The musical discourse of servitude : authority, autonomy, and the work-concept in Fux, Bach, and Handel /
"The Musical Discourse of Servitude examines the music of Johann Joseph Fux (c.1660-1741) in relation to that of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. Its principal argument is that Fux's long indenture as a composer of church music in Vienna gains in meaning (and cultural sign...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "The Musical Discourse of Servitude examines the music of Johann Joseph Fux (c.1660-1741) in relation to that of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. Its principal argument is that Fux's long indenture as a composer of church music in Vienna gains in meaning (and cultural significance) when situated along an axis that runs between the liturgical servitude of writing music for the imperial court service and the autonomy of musical imagination which transpires in the late works of Bach and Handel. To this end, The Musical Discourse of Servitude constructs a typology of the late baroque musical imagination which draws Fux, Bach and Handel into the orbit of North Italian compositional practice"-- |
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| Item Description: | "Oxford University Press has created an open-access website to accompany The Musical Discourse of Servitude. This contains three arias by Johann Joseph Fux and three by Johann Sebastian Bach which are discussed in the second chapter of this book and designated therin as Appendix 2.1-6"--Page xvii |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190903893 0190903899 9780190903909 0190903902 9780190903886 0190903880 |