Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination: Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music (Musical Performance and Reception)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Abbreviations......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
ORIGINALITY: CONSENSUS OR CONTROVERSY?......Page 25
‘ON THE BENEFIT AND DETRIMENT OF HISTORY’......Page 28
Monumental history......Page 31
Antiquarian history......Page 34
Critical history......Page 37
HEGEL, HISTORICISM AND THE ‘DECAY AND DISINTEGRATION OF ART’......Page 44
HOFFMANN AND THE ROMANTIC IDEALIZATION OF PALESTRINA......Page 52
PALESTRINA AND THE ROMANTIC NEW MYTHOLOGY......Page 63
PALESTRINA AND ABSOLUTE VOCAL MUSIC......Page 68
PALESTRINA AND THE MODERN COMPOSER......Page 73
OLD ITALIAN MUSIC, BILDUNG AND THE GERMAN SINGVEREINE......Page 78
QUASI-LITURGICAL MUSIC: SPOHR AND NICOLAI......Page 85
MENDELSSOHN AND THE BERLIN PALESTRINA REVIVAL......Page 94
Mendelssohn and the Berlin Domchor......Page 100
WINTERFELD AND THE HISTORICAL PALESTRINA......Page 109
BROADER TRENDS IN PERFORMANCE AND COMPOSITION......Page 114
PALESTRINA AND THE PRIMACY OF VOCAL MUSIC......Page 125
Bellermann’s Contrapunkt......Page 137
Grell’s Missa solemnis......Page 144
TRADITION AND REFORM......Page 149
Proske and Musica divina......Page 157
WITT AND THE ALLGEMEINE DEUTSCHE CÄCILIEN-VEREIN......Page 160
‘What must modern church composers avoid?’......Page 165
The ‘Wittian style’ and the Raphaels-Messe......Page 169
BROADER TRENDS IN COMPOSITION: PALESTRINIANISM......Page 177
COMPLETING PALESTRINA: HABERL, HALLER AND THE GESAMTAUSGABE......Page 184
LITURGICAL FUNCTION AND AESTHETIC VALUE......Page 189
LISZT, BRUCKNER AND THE PALESTRINA REVIVAL......Page 197
Liszt, Bruckner and the ACV......Page 200
The later liturgical compositions of Liszt and Bruckner......Page 206
Liszt’s Missa choralis and Bruckner’s Mass in E minor......Page 223
PALESTRINA IN SECULAR AND NON-LITURGICAL MUSIC......Page 230
WAGNER’S ‘STABAT MATER’ AND THE POETICS OF ARRANGEMENT......Page 238
LISZT, WAGNER AND ALLUSION......Page 243
6 Interpreting the secondary discourse of nineteenth-century music......Page 257
1 HISTORICISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART, AESTHETICS AND CULTURE......Page 277
2 ROMANTICISM AND THE PROBLEM OF CHURCH MUSIC......Page 282
3 THE PROTESTANT PALESTRINA REVIVAL......Page 287
4 THE CATHOLIC PALESTRINA REVIVAL......Page 295
5 PALESTRINA IN THE CONCERT HALL......Page 306
6 INTERPRETING THE SECONDARY DISCOURSE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC......Page 309
PRIMARY SOURCES......Page 312
SECONDARY SOURCES......Page 317
Index......Page 327