Zohn, Steven - Music for a Mixed Taste

This first full-length study of Telemann's concertos, sonatas, and suites focuses on his imaginative mixing of styles and genres. Special attention is also devoted to the extramusical meanings and humor of his programmatic overture-suites, his unprecedented self-publishing enterprise, and the social resonances of his Polish-style works.

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CONTENTS

Abbreviations
List of Musical Examples
List of Tables
List of Figures
Prologue: Styles and Sources
Telemann and the German Mixed Taste
Genius in the Closet
Part I: The Overture-Suites
1
Acquiring a Mixed Taste: Telemann as grand partisan de la musique Francaise
Telemann as Lullist
Tradition versus Innovation
The Concert en ouverture and Concerto en suite
The Overture-Suite in Retrospect
2
Telemann's Mimetic Art: The Characteristic Overture-Suites
Characteristic Titles/Staging the Overture-Suite
The Civic Water Music/Images of Court and Country
Telemann's Wit: Burlesque, Parody, and Satire
Part II: The Concertos
3
Niemals recht von Herzen gegangen?: Telemann's Concertos
The Eisenach Concertos
Concertos for the Eloquent Oboe
Concertos alla francese
Telemann and the German Ripieno Concerto
The Late Frankfurt and Hamburg Concertos
Telemann's Orchestras
4
Bach's Debt Repaid with Interest: A Case Study of Transformative Imitation
Bach's Borrowing, Telemann's Model
Bach, Telemann, and the Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics of Musical Borrowing
Part III: The Sonatas
5
Something for Everyone's Taste: Telemann's Sonatas to 1725
Solos and Trios in the Italian Style
Trios alla francese
The True Touchtone of a Genuine Contrapuntist: Quartets for Strings and Winds
When is a Quartet Not a Quartet?
Sonatas in Five to Seven Parts
Two Parisian Piracies
The Frankfurt Sonata Publications
6
Telemann and the Sonate auf Concertenart
Defining the Sonate auf Concertenart
Titles as Signifiers of Genre
Reimagining the Sonata (Concerto)
The Vivaldi Cult at Dresden and the Origins of the Sonate auf Concertenart
Telemann's Sonaten auf Concertenart
The Sonate en concert and French Vivaldisme
The Aesthetics of Mixed Genres
Part IV: The Hamburg Publications
7
Telemann in the Marketplace: The Composer as Self-Publisher
Setting up Shop
Telemann's Subscribers
Production Methods
Closing Shop
8
Telemann fur Kenner und Liebhaber: The Music of the Hamburg Publications
Sonates sans basse
Essercizii musici
Reading the Faithful Music Master
Menuets and Marches
Quadri
Methodical Sonatas and Nouvelles sonatines
The Fantastic Style
Musique de table and Six ouvertures a 4 ou 6
Divertimenti
XII Solos a violin ou traverseere
Six concerts et six suites
An Omaggio a Corelli?
Parisian Sonatas
Galanterien
9 Telemann's Polish Style and the True Barbaric Beauty of the Musical Other
Gedancken fur ein gantzes Leben: Telemann in Poland
A Country in the Moon: Poland, Pastoral, and the Past
Representing Poland Musically
Afterward
Glossary
Bibliography
Index of Telemann's Compositions
General Index