Studies in eighteenth-century music : a tribute to Karl Geiringer on his seventieth birthday / edited by H. C. Robbins Landon in collaboration with Roger E. Chapman
1970, First Edition. London : George Allen & Unwin. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #454336
ISBN: 004780016X
Physical description; 425 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Bibliography of the works of Karl Geitinger: p. [407]-419. Contents; Some eighteenth-century Polish symphonies / Gerald Abraham -- English pre-Romantic poetry in settings by German composers / Otto E. Albrecht -- "Rhythmic harmony" as taught by Johann Philipp Kirnberger / Putnam Aldrich -- Clementi's "Musical characteristics" opus 19 / Eva Badura-Skoda -- Joseph Haydn's Ave Regina in A / Irmgard Becker-Glauch -- On vulgar music and poetry found in unexplored minor sources of eighteenth-century lute tablatures / Wolfgang Boetticher -- The early Zürich Neujahrsblätter / Andres Briner -- An evaluation of Johann Mattheson's opera, Cleopatra (Hamburg 1704) / George J. Buelow -- The chorale in the Baroque era and J.S. Bach's contribution to it / Walter E. Buszin -- Joseph Haydn and the freemasons / Jacques Chailley -- Some observations on liturgy, text, and structure in Haydn's late Masses / Martin Chusid -- Tonal exploitation in the later quartets of Haydn / Louise E. Cuyler -- Vocal embellishment in a Handel aria / Winton Dean -- Amore traditore : a problem cantata / Robert Donington -- Johann Adam Hiller's "Critical prospectus for a music library" / Vincent Duckles -- Similarities in the works of Haydn / Georg Feder -- Eighteenth century litaniae lauretanae from the repertory of the Viennese province of the Franciscan Order / Hellmut Federhofer and Renate Federhofer -- The problem of heritage in the musical life of the present / K.G. Fellerer -- Arietta variata / Kurt von Fischer -- Georg Benda, the pioneer of the melodrama / Edith Vogl Garrett -- The keyboard sonatas of Félix Máximo López : an appreciation / John Gillespie -- J.S. Bach and the tradition of keyboard transcriptions / Theodor Göllner -- Progressive and conservative tendencies in the violoncello concertos of Leonardo Leo / Douglass Green -- BWV 131, Bach's first cantata / Gerhard Herz -- A rare contemporary edition of Haydn's "Hymn for the emperor" / Anthony van Hoboken -- Weber on opera : a challenge to eighteenth-century tradition / Dolores Menstell Hsu -- Haydn listings in the rediscovered Leuckart supplements : Breslau 1788-92 / Jan LaRue -- The closing numbers of Die Schöpfung / Siegmund Levarie -- Haydn as student and critic of Fux / Alfred Mann -- Modulation in C.P.E. Bach's Versuch / William J. Mitchell -- Ars combinatoria : chance and choice in eighteenth-century music / Leonard G. Ratner -- Father and son : some attributions to J.S. Bach by C.P.E. Bach / Gloria Rose -- A bold enharmonic modulatory model in Joseph Haydn's string quartets / László Somfai -- Mozart's Gagliarda / Bence Szabolcsi -- Bernard Lamy, rhetorician of the passions / William G. Waite -- A homage of Piccinni to Gluck / Emanuel Winternitz -- The fairy-tale of the Neapolitan opera / Hellmuth Christian Wolff. Subjects; Geiringer, Karl 1899-. Geiringer, Karl. Geiringer, Karl 1899-1989. Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel 1714-1788.
Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750. Benda, Georg 1722-1795. Clementi, Muzio 1752-1832. Fux, Johann Joseph 1660-1741. Gluck, Christoph Willibald Ritter von 1714-1787. Handel, George Frideric 1685-1759. Haydn, Joseph 1732-1809. Hiller, Johann Adam 1728-1804. Kirnberger, Johann Philipp 1721-1783. Lamy, Bernard 1640-1715. Leo, Leonardo 1694-1744. Mattheson, Johann 1681-1764. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791. Piccinni, Vito Niccolò 1728-1899. Weber, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von 1786-1826. 1700-1799. Music Addresses, essays, lectures. Music History and criticism 18th century. Music 18th century Music 18th century Addresses, essays, lectures. Music 18th century History and criticism.
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