Hungarian Dances and Musical Life in Eighteenth-Century Vienna

Catherine Mayes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
9780197805763 (ISBN)

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Eighteenth-century accounts of Vienna portray the city as one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse in Europe, yet most scholarship about Viennese music at that time focuses on Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, painting a disproportionately Austro-German picture of the Habsburg capital's musical life. Hungarian Dances and Musical Life in Eighteenth-Century Vienna is a social history of a unique facet of the city's diversity, illuminating how it shaped everyday experiences, individual and collective identities, and boundaries of belonging from approximately 1750 to 1810.

Each chapter presents a case study of Hungarian dances and their music in a particular setting, with close attention to the mediating and intersecting effects of gender and class on personal and communal experiences. Engagement with music and dance—especially by reading, playing keyboard instruments, and taking part in social dancing—made cross-cultural encounters possible for relatively privileged Viennese women, even when their participation in public life and their ability to travel were limited. These cross-cultural encounters were critical to women's imaginative exploration of new affinities and identities without risk to their position or reputation.

Moving deftly from the Habsburg court and its theaters to public sites of sociability and domestic contexts, Catherine Mayes offers new perspectives on the wide range and significance of experiences of music and dance in the capital city of a multinational monarchy.

Catherine Mayes is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She specializes in the music and culture of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe, with a strong focus on Viennese engagement with Eastern Europe and its music at that time. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and coeditor, with Emily H. Green, of Consuming Music: Individuals, Institutions, Communities, 1730-1830.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Note on Sources
Introduction: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Music and Dance
1. Staging Hungary at the Habsburg Court
2. Experiencing Vernacular Music
3. Playing Hungarian Dances at the Keyboard
4. Dancing the Ungarischer
Epilogue
Appendix: Descriptions of Hungarian Dances Issued in Connection with Dances for Keyboard
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2025
Zusatzinfo	11 b&w halftones + 9 music examples + 2 tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	166 x 238 mm
Gewicht	463 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9780197805763 / 9780197805763
Zustand	Neuware