Free Download The Power of Pastiche: Musical Miscellany and Cultural Identity in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Clemson University Press: Studies in British Musical Cultures) by Alison DeSimone
English | April 6, 2021 | ISBN: 1942954778 | 336 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
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.