Musical Authorship from Schütz to Bach

ISBN-13: 9781108421072 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 258 str.

Stephen Rose (Royal Holloway University

Opis

What did the term 'author' denote for Lutheran musicians in the generations between Heinrich Schutz and Johann Sebastian Bach? As part of the Musical Performance and Reception series, this book examines attitudes to authorship as revealed in the production, performance and reception of music in seventeenth-century German lands. Analysing a wide array of archival, musical, philosophical and theological texts, this study illuminates notions of creativity in the period and the ways in which individuality was projected and detected in printed and manuscript music. Its investigation of musical ownership and regulation shows how composers appealed to princely authority to protect their publications, and how town councils sought to control the compositional efforts of their church musicians. Interpreting authorship as a dialogue between authority and individuality, this book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore changing attitudes to the self in the era between Schutz and Bach.

Recenzje

'Throughout the book, the reader feels in very safe hands. Its contents are highly informative, refreshingly jargon-free, and beautifully produced. Rose's own assured authorial voice,his expert handling of original texts and their translation, his solid methodological principles and lucid writing style render his book nothing less than a model for the kind of historical work it presents. Its wealth of historical materials can serve as a stimulus, moreover, for future scholarly endeavours pursuing the numerous promising avenues of enquiry opened up here.' Bettina Varwig, Revue de musicologie

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. God, talent, craft: concepts of musical creativity; 2. Between imitatio and plagiarism; 3. Signs of individuality; 4. Rites of musical ownership; 5. The regulation of novelty; 6. Authorship and performance; Conclusion.