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Music for a Mixed Taste - Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works (Paperback)
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Music for a Mixed Taste - Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works (Paperback)
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Georg Philipp Telemann gave us one of the richest legacies of
instrumental music from the eighteenth century. Though considered a
definitive contribution to the genre during his lifetime, his
concertos, sonatas, and suites were then virtually ignored for
nearly two centuries following his death. Yet these works are now
among the most popular in the baroque repertory. In Music for a
Mixed Taste, Steven Zohn considers Telemann's music from stylistic,
generic, and cultural perspectives. He investigates the composer's
cosmopolitan "mixed taste"-a blending of the French, Italian,
English, and Polish national styles-and his imaginative expansion
of this concept to embrace mixtures of the old (late baroque) and
new (galant) styles. Telemann had an equally remarkable penchant
for generic amalgamation, exemplified by his pioneering role in
developing hybrid types such as the sonata in concerto style
("Sonate auf Concertenart") and overture-suite with solo instrument
("Concert en ouverture"). Zohn examines the extramusical meanings
of Telemann's "characteristic" overture-suites, which bear
descriptive texts associating them with literature, medicine,
politics, religion, and the natural world, and which acted as
vehicles for the composer's keen sense of musical humor. Zohn then
explores Telemann's unprecedented self-publishing enterprise at
Hamburg, and sheds light on the previously unrecognized borrowing
by J.S. Bach from a Telemann concerto. Music for a Mixed Taste
further reveals how Telemann's style polonaise generates musical
and social meanings through the timeless oppositions of
Orient-Occident, urban-rural, and serious-comic.
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