Music and the city : musical cultures and urban societies in the southern Netherlands and beyond, c. 1650-1800 / edited by Stefanie Beghein, Bruno Blondé, & Eugeen Schreurs.

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Music and the city. Musical cultures and urban societies in the southern Netherlands and beyond, c. 1650-1800 / Stefanie Beghein & Bruno Blondé -- The urban stage--staging the city : "Les operas etaient en vogue." Opera in a city in crisis : Antwerp between 1682 and 1794 / Timothy de Paepe. Opera in a different language : opera translations in the Dutch Republic in the eighteenth century / Rudolf Rasch. Music-making ghosts : eighteenth-century Rome as operatic memory machine / Bruno Forment -- The church and the streets. Music and funeral practices in Antwerp, c. 1650-1750 / Stefanie Beghein. Church music and minstrel music in the southern Netherlands, with a special focus on Antwerp / Eugeen Schreurs. The church, the street, the tower, and the home as sites of religious music-making in urban Baroque Germany / Tanya Kevorkian -- Private music. Serious songs, musical practices and sociability in Paris at the end of the seventeenth century / Anne-Madeleine Goulet. Apollo's gifts : Dutch songbooks for the urban youth of the eighteenth century / Louis P. Grijp.

This book sheds light on the societal dimension of music in urban life in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although early modern urban musical life has been the object of investigation with several researchers, little is known about the ways in which musical cultures were integrated within their broader urban environments. Building upon recent trends within urban musicology, the authors of this volume aim to transcend descriptive overviews of institutions and actors involved with music within a given city. Instead, they consider the urban environment as the constitutive context for music making, and music as a significant aspect of urban society and identity. Through selected case studies and by focusing on three 'musical circuits'-opera and theatre music, sacred music, and secular songs-this book contributes to a more effective understanding of music in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century urban societies in the southern Netherlands and beyond.

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