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Dedicating Music, 1785-1850

By Green, Emily H.

Dedicating Music, 1785-1850

By Green, Emily H.

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Why dedicate music? What did dedications mean to their readers and writers, especially after 1785, when more works were offered to fellow composers as well as to patrons? Borrowing from book history and sociological theory, Dedicating Music, 1785–1850 is a large-scale study of patterns of dedications. Emily H. Green argues that the kinds of offerings printed in the late eighteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries reflect a changing financial and aesthetic landscape in which patronage was waning and independent artistry surging. Dedications labeled written music as a gift while presenting composers with an opportunity for self-promotion. They also contributed to a new kind of branding of music by communicating composers’ friendships and artistic allegiances.Dedicating Music considers dedications issued in print between 1785 and 1850 in sets of overlapping corpuses: offerings to peers (as in Mozart’s string quartets dedicated to Haydn); to patrons (as in Ignaz Pleyel’s string quartets for Count Erdödy); to friends (as in Ferdinand Ries’s offerings for Beethoven); and dedications issued by publishers (as in Beethoven’s song "In questa tomba oscura," included in publisher Tranquillo Mollo’s collection offered to Prince Lobkowitz). The result is a synchronic study that highlights the importance of printed packaging, rather than notes on the page, to the complex relationship between composers, publishers, and consumers of music.EMILY H. GREEN is Assistant Professor of Music at George Mason University.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
260
Release Date:
2019-05-20
Publication Date:
2019-05-01
Publisher:
University of Rochester Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1580469493
ISBN13:
9781580469494
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
532 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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