Viennese Ballroom in the Age of Beethoven

Reveals how the culture and repertoire of the early Viennese ballroom permeated and intersected with other areas of musical life.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The public ball in Viennese musical life, 1770-1830; 2. Early waltz dances of the Viennese ballroom: transmission and transformation in eighteenth-century music and dance; 3. The minuet: performing aristocracy in the Viennese ballroom; 4. The contredanse: participation and spectatorship in the public ballroom; 5. Dance arrangements from the Viennese stage; 6. Battle waltzes: programmatic music in the ballroom; 7. The Congress dances': the Viennese public ball and court-sponsored festivities at the Congress of Vienna; Epilogue; Appendix: Selected original musical sources consulted; Bibliography.

About the author

Erica Buurman is Assistant Professor of Music at San José State University and Director of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies. Her research focuses on music of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, especially Beethoven, and social dance.

Summary

This book examines the culture, repertoire and performing practices of the early Viennese ballroom, and its relevance to the histories of both music and social dance in nineteenth-century Europe. The book brings together perspectives from musicology and dance history and is aimed at scholars in both disciplines.

Product details

• Authors: Erica Buurman, Erica (San Jose State University Buurman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781108495851
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49585-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Dance, Music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Romanticism, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music