Music & culture in eighteenth-century Europe : a source book / Enrico Fubini ; translated from the original sources by Wolfgang Freis, Lisa Gasbarrone, Michael Louis Leone ; translation edited by Bonnie J. Blackburn.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-414) and index.
Contents
1. First polemics on opera in Italy -- 2. Italians and the French: the great "Querelle" -- 3. European rationalism and theories of harmony -- 4. Birth of historiography and the reports of foreign travelers in Italy -- 5. Reaction of Italian humanists and literati to music -- 6. German musical culture and the controversy regarding Bach -- 7. Toward the revaluation of instrumental music -- 8. Sensism and empirical currents -- 9. Ancients and the moderns -- 10. "Querelle" between the Gluckists and the Piccinnists.