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Changing cultural space: the public molding of Handel's Esther into an English Oratorio (1732)
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
Abstract English oratorio engendered lasting changes in music history, yet the social context of its genesis remains under-explored. No convincing explanation has been offered for the Oratorio's revivals as Esther in February-March 1731/2 and the events leading to Handel's ambitious production two months lat... mehr
English oratorio engendered lasting changes in music history, yet the social context of its genesis remains under-explored. No convincing explanation has been offered for the Oratorio's revivals as Esther in February-March 1731/2 and the events leading to Handel's ambitious production two months later are still obscure. Moreover, scholarly emphasis on the textual affinities between the two works threatens to reduce its birth into mere compositional updating. This essay promotes Esther's cultural autonomy by shifting attention from music text to context, and from composition to reception. It examines the oratorio's historical milieu and suggests that political and cultural tensions in 1731-32 informed Handel's molding of a piece of chamber music into a public-oriented genre. It also upgrades the press as a shaping force in the new market of musical products and finds that rhetorical and typographical choices in Esther advertisements encoded ideological tensions between progressive and antiquarian claims on the oratorio.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Musik; Großbritannien; historische Entwicklung; Kultur; Kulturwandel
Klassifikation
Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Oratorium
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2016
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Schriftenreihe
Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Markt und Entscheidung, Abteilung Ökonomik des Wandels, SP II 2016-310
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http://hdl.handle.net/10419/148597
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