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Hill, John W. Vaillancourt, Michael Grant 2011-05-07T12:11:04Z 2011-05-07T12:11:04Z 10000-01-01 1991 This dissertation deals with the instrumental ensemble music either composed or employed at the imperial court in Vienna during the reign of the Emperor Leopold I. The main focus of the study concerns the particular uses of instrumental music within the various social and political functions at the court. Four principal performance venues are discussed: outdoor music, banquet music, music for use in conjunction with the liturgy, and chamber music. In each, special attention was given to both the mode of presentation and musical stylistic features in order to transmit symbols embodying values of special importance particular to each performance situation. This study makes use of court documents and other primary sources that show a strong concern for minute detail in the presentation of music at the court. Plans and sketches for festivities show that exact instrumentation, placement of performing forces, and carefully controlled interaction between music and the activity of which it was a part were all the concern of court planners. The dissertation presents extensive musical analysis of the Austrian repertoire. This analysis is concerned with three main topics. First, harmonic and pitch structures are explored in the light of contemporary writings on modal theory. Second, musical form is discussed as an outgrowth of the sixteenth and seventeenth-century interest in classical rhetoric. Finally, the notion of Kaiserstil, long recognized as the dominant direction in Austrian architecture of the period, forms the focus of the third topic. Musical stylistic features are compared with those of architecture in an attempt to define a musical Kaiserstil. The study concludes by presenting over twenty Austrian ensemble sonatas in modern score for the first time. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:11:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9136755.pdf: 17938738 bytes, checksum: 59ec26642320b6d6b0521e75f4380898 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1991 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:37:46Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:15:36-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9136755 (UMI)AAI9136755 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/19548 eng Copyright 1991 Vaillancourt, Michael Grant History, European Music Instrumental ensemble music at the court of Leopold I (1658-1705) text Music Musicology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.