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Consort Suites and Dance Music by Town Musicians in German-Speaking Europe, 1648–1700

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Consort Suites and Dance Music by Town Musicians in German-Speaking Europe, 1648–1700 book

Consort Suites and Dance Music by Town Musicians in German-Speaking Europe, 1648–1700

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Consort Suites and Dance Music by Town Musicians in German-Speaking Europe, 1648–1700 book

ByMichael Robertson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 28 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315573519
Pages 264 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315573519
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Robertson, M. (2016). Consort Suites and Dance Music by Town Musicians in German-Speaking Europe, 1648–1700. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315573519

This companion volume to The Courtly Consort Suite in German-Speaking Europe surveys an area of music neglected by modern scholars: the consort suites and dance music by musicians working in the seventeenth-century German towns. Conditions of work in the German towns are examined in detail, as are the problems posed by the many untrained travelling players who were often little more than beggars. The central part of the book explores the organisation, content and assembly of town suites into carefully ordered printed collections, which refutes the concept of the so-called 'classical' suite. The differences between court and town suites are dealt with alongside the often-ignored variation suite from the later decades of the seventeenth century and the separate suite-writing traditions of Leipzig and Hamburg. While the seventeenth-century keyboard suite has received a good deal of attention from modern scholars, its often symbiotic relationship with the consort suite has been ignored. This book aims to redress the balance and to deal with one very important but often ignored aspect of seventeenth-century notation: the use of blackened notes, which are rarely notated in a meaningful way in modern editions, with important implications for performance.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|18 pages

Towns and town musicians

Governance, status and performance

chapter 2|24 pages

Dances, collections and national styles

chapter 1|22 pages

The aftermath of war: 1648–59

chapter 1|25 pages

Concepts of careful organisation: 1660–75

chapter 5|18 pages

A time of decline: 1676–1700

chapter 6|41 pages

Leipzig

chapter 7|23 pages

Hamburg

chapter 8|23 pages

Keyboard suites by town composers

chapter 9|16 pages

Note blackening and mensural notation

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