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The Italian cantata in Vienna : entertainment in the age of absolutism / by Bennett, Lawrence, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…The political and cultural milieu ; The composers ; Repertoire and sources ; Style overview ; Aspects of form ; Melody, harmony, and rhythm ; The relationship of text and music.…”
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Communication in eighteenth-century music

Table of Contents: “…. -- Part I : Communication and verisimilitude in the eighteenth century / Paul Cobley -- Listening to listeners / Mark Evan Bonds -- Mannichfaltige Abweichungen von der gewohnlichen Sonaten-form : Beethoven's 'piano-solo' op. 31 no. 1 and the challenge of communication / Claudia Maurer Zenck -- Part II : Musical grammar -- Metre, phrase structure and manipulations of musical beginnings / Danuta Mirka -- National metrical types in music of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / William Rothstein -- Schoenberg's 'second melody', or, 'Meyer-ed' in the bass / William E. Caplin -- Part III : Rhetorical form and topical decorum -- A metaphoric model of sonata form : two expositions by Mozart / Michael Spitzer -- Beethoven's op. 18 no. 3, first movement : two readings, with a comment on analysis / Kofi Agawu -- Mozart's K331, first movement : once more, with feeling / Wye J. …”
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