The Power of Pastiche ? Musical Miscellany and the Cultural Identity in Early Eighteenth?Century England

Alison Desimone

ISBN 10: 1638041784 / ISBN 13: 9781638041788

Edité par John Wiley & Sons, John Wiley & Sons, 2025

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• Titre: The Power of Pastiche ? Musical Miscellany and the Cultural Identity in Early Eighteenth?Century England
• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons, John Wiley & Sons
• Date de parution: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1638041784
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781638041788
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 18 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 18 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 479 grammes

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In eighteenth-century England, “variety” became a prized aesthetic in musical culture. Not only was variety—of counterpoint, harmony, melody, and orchestration—expected for good composition, but it also manifested in cultural mediums such as songbook anthologies, which compiled miscellaneous songs and styles in single volumes; pasticcio operas, which were cobbled together from excerpts from other operas; and public concerts, which offered a hodgepodge assortment of different types and styles of performance. I call this trend of producing music through the collection, assemblage, and juxtaposition of various smaller pieces as musical miscellany; like a jigsaw puzzle (also invented in the eighteenth century), the urge to construct a whole out of smaller, different parts reflected a growing desire to appeal to a quickly diversifying England. This book explores the phenomenon of musical miscellany in early eighteenth-century England both in performance culture and as an aesthetic. Chapters offer analyses of concert programming, early music criticism, the compilation of pasticcio operas and songbook miscellanies, and even the ways in which composers and performers shaped their freelancing careers. Musical miscellany, in its many forms, juxtaposed foreign and homegrown musical practices and styles in order to stimulate discourse surrounding English musical culture during a time of cosmopolitan transformation as the eighteenth century unfolded.

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Alison DeSimone is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. With Matthew Gardner (University of Tübingen), she co-edited Music and the Benefit Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2019). She has published articles in the A-R Online Anthology, Händel-Jahrbuch, and Early Modern Women. Her article "'Equally Charming, Equally Too Great' Female Rivalry, Politics, and Opera in Early Eighteenth-Century London," won the 2018 Ruth Solie Prize for an Outstanding Article on British Music from the North American British Music Studies Association. She is also currently an Associate Editor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.