The social status of the professional musician from the Middle Ages to the 19th century
By: Walter Salmen, general editor ; annotated and translated from the German by Herbert Kaufman and Barbara Reisner.
Contributors: Salmen, Walter, 1926-; Kaufman, Herbert.; Reisner, Barbara.
Series: Sociology of music ;; no. 1
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Music -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Translation of: Der Sozialstatus des Berufsmusikers vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert.
Table of contents: title: The social status of the musician in the Middle Ages / Walter Salmen; title: The social status of the town musician / Heinrich W. Schwab; title: The social status of organists in Lutheran Germany from the 16th through the 19th century / Arnfried Edler; title: On the social status of the Spielmann (folk musician) in 17th and 18th century Germany, particularly in the Northwest / Dieter Krickeberg; title: The hautboist : an outline of evolving careers and functions / Werner Braun; title: The economic conditions of the 18th century musician / Richard Petzoldt; title: The musician as music dealer in the second half of the 18th century / Klaus Hortschansky; title: The origin and social status of the court orchestral musician in the 18th and early 19th century in Germany / Christoph-Hellmut Mahling; title: Social obligations of the emancipated musician in the 19th century / Walter Salmen.