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Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style 1720-1780. By Daniel Heartz. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. [xxiv, 1078. ISBN 0-393-05080-7. $100.] Music examples, color plates, illustrations, bibliography, index.
With his Music in European Capitals, Daniel Heartz has completed the second volume of a trilogy on the music of the eighteenth century. (The first, Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740-1780, appeared from W. W. Norton in 1995.) As he observes in his preface, this book "invited a rethinking" of musicology's traditional conception of the eighteenth century, particularly the "fixation on Bach and Handel" (p. xxi) that has prevented a full and fair ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style 1720-1780.(Historical...