The century of Bach and Mozart
Subtitle: perspectives on historiography, composition, theory, and performance
By: edited by Sean Gallagher, Thomas Forrest Kelly.
Contributors: Gallagher, Sean, 1965-; Kelly, Thomas Forrest.; Wolff, Christoph.
Series: Isham Library papers -- 7; Harvard publications in music -- 22
Publisher: Harvard University Department of Music; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780964031739
Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian, -- 1685-1750 -- Criticism and interpretation; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, -- 1756-1791 -- Criticism and interpretation; Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Other titles: Perspectives on historiography, composition, theory, and performance
Notes: "In honor of Christoph Wolff"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Eighteenth-century music in its intellectual contexts. The German eighteenth century : marking time / David Blackbourn; title: Fundamenta partiturae : thorough bass and foundations of eighteenth-century composition pedagogy / Thomas Christensen; title: Mishmash or synthesis? : on the psychagogic form of The creation / Hermann Danuse ; (translated by Nicolas Betson); title: Six of one : the opus concept in the eighteenth century / Elaine Sisman; title: Part II. Composing and hearing music in the eighteenth century. Bach's passions and the textures of time / John Butt; title: Bach and hypocrisy : appearance and truth in Cantatas 136 and 179 / Eric Chafe; title: Tartini and his texts / Sergio Durate; title: Part III. Sources.and transmission. The evolution of "Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär" BWV 80/5 / Daniel R. Melamed; title: Bach and Mozart : from the perspective of different documentary evidence / Hans-Joachim Schulze; title: On Johann Sebastian Bach's creative process : observations from his drafts and sketches / Peter Wollny; title: One more time : Mozart and his cadenzas / Neal Zaslaw; title: Part IV. Issues in historiography. On ancient languages : the historical idiom in the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Ulrich Konrad ; (translated by Thomas Irvine); title: Eighteenth-century music as a socio-political metaphor? / Reinhard Strohm; title: The century of Handel and Haydn / James Webster; title: Mozart's fantasy, Haydn's caprice : what's in a name? / Gretchen Wheelock; title: Part V. Interpreting eighteenth-century music. The clavier speaks / Christopher Hogwood; title: Ten years of Bach cantatas / Ton Koopman; title: Mozart's working methods in the piano concertos / Robert Levin.