Rethinking salon music. Case-studies in analysis

0559691 - ÚDU 2024 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Bunzel, Anja - Wollenberg, S.
Rethinking salon music. Case-studies in analysis.
Nineteenth-Century Music Review. Roč. 20, Special issue 2 (2023), s. 359-364. ISSN 1479-4098. E-ISSN 2044-8414
Institutional support: RVO:68378033
Keywords : salon music * analysis * nineteenth-century song * piano works * tambourine * France * Austria * Robert Schumann
OECD category: Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)
Impact factor: 0.3, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479409821000495

This is a scholarly introduction to a special-themed issue on salon music. Nineteenth-century salon culture has received important attention in recent years with regard to examining the nature and function of the salon as an institution together with notions of the salonesque. Typically music played a key role in these gatherings, however, the extent of its cultivation, and the compositional and technical degree of complexity involved, varied according to the individual circumstances. The three articles collected in this special-themed issue provide an important reminder that not all repertoire that formed an inherent part of nineteenth-century musical culture is well-known and performed today. They help us to remember that music easily accessible now was not only new and challenging to audiences in its time but also bore a special relationship to its social context. The salon offered a safer space for the process of absorption than exposure to more public performance might create.
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