Klaviermethoden en concertdiscipline. Een muzieksociologische vingeroefening

Samenvatting

While social behavior at musical concerts has become less formal over the past twenty years, both the audience & the solo performer still exhibit certain forms of self-discipline. The eighteenth-century origins of such behavior in continental Europe are examined. Texts by Francois Couperin & Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, written during their service at the courts of France & Prussia, discuss not only technical & stylistic questions relating to keyboard performance, but also methods of performing before a live audience, based primarily on Roman rhetorical theory. The musical styles of Couperin & Bach were directly related to the refined ways of life at these courts. Their teaching methods both reflected patterns of social behavior & contributed to maintaining these patterns, generating an atmosphere of musical refinement noted by Charles Burney (Musical Tours in Europe, Vols I & II, London: Oxford U Press, 1959) as contrasting the more informal atmosphere at other concerts. Modified HA.