TY - BOOK ID - 3282547 TI - The great transformation of musical taste : concert programming from Haydn to Brahms AU - Weber, William AU - Cambridge University Press PY - 2008 SN - 9780521882606 0521882605 9780521124232 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Concerts KW - Music KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Political aspects KW - Art music KW - Art music, Western KW - Classical music KW - Musical compositions KW - Musical works KW - Serious music KW - Western art music KW - Western music (Western countries) KW - Recitals (Music) KW - Amusements KW - Performance KW - History of civilization KW - Europe KW - 18th century KW - 19th century KW - 78.26 KW - 78.27 KW - 78.29.1 KW - 78.87.1 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3282547 AB - Grounded in knowledge of thousands of programs, this book examines how musical life in London, Leipzig, Vienna, Boston, and other cities underwent a fundamental transformation in relationship with movements in European politics. William Weber traces how musical taste evolved in European concert programs from 1750 to 1870, as separate worlds arose around classical music and popular songs. In 1780 a typical program accommodated a variety of tastes through a patterned 'miscellany' of genres, held together by diplomatic musicians. This framework began weakening around 1800 as new kinds of music appeared, from string quartets to quadrilles to ballads, which could not easily coexist on the same programs. Utopian ideas and extravagant experiments influenced programming as ideological battles were fought over who should govern musical taste. More than a hundred illustrations or transcriptions of programs enable readers to follow Weber's analysis in detail. ER -