Volume 50, Number 20 · December 18, 2003
Music on the Grand Tour
By Lewis Lockwood
Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720–1780
by Daniel Heartz
Norton, 1,078 pp., $100.00
'The music formerly known as classical' is a slogan used by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project for music most people call 'contemporary.' Though BMOP's purpose is to shake up entrenched ideas about new music and about 'classical' and 'popular,' the phrase, recast in meaning, could also refer to music of the eighteenth century. It could certainly be used for Daniel Heartz's ambitious survey of music and musical trends from 1720 to 1780, a period that includes much of what we continue to refer to as 'classical' music. Although the terms have become increasingly controversial, 'classical' and the 'classical period' are generally used to describe the style that took form in the eighteenth century and culminates in the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
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