The making of European music in the long eighteenth century /
"Musical representations of Europe, in myth and allegory, are well known. However, the concept of a pan-continental music in the thought of Europeans emerged only during the long eighteenth century. From the 1670s Jesuit missionaries in China began to refer to "European music," and fo...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | New cultural history of music.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Musics of Continents and Hemispheres. Part I. "Europe" in Music, Music in "Europe". Musical Constructions of Europe in Myth and Allegory ; Europe as Place : Music and the Imagined Extent of a Continent
- Part II. "European Music". Europeans, "Franks," and "Their" Musics ; The Emergence of the "European Music" Concept
- Part III. "Modern European Music" and "Western Music". "Modern" Europe and "Ancient" Others in Musical Thought ; Accidental Occident : The Setting of "the West" in Music History.