{"product_id":"dedicating-music-1785-1850-9781580469494","title":"Dedicating Music, 1785-1850","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Emily H. Green\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Rochester Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Rochester Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Criticism - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy dedicate music? What did dedications mean to their readers and writers, especially after 1785, when more works were offered to fellow composers as well as to patrons? Borrowing from book history and sociological theory, \u003cem\u003eDedicating Music, 1785-1850 \u003c\/em\u003eis a large-scale study of patterns of dedications. Emily H. Green argues that the kinds of offerings printed in the late eighteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries reflect a changing financial and aesthetic landscape in which patronage was waning and independent artistry surging. Dedications labeled written music as a gift while presenting composers with an opportunity for self-promotion. They also contributed to a new kind of branding of music by communicating composers' friendships and artistic allegiances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDedicating Music\u003c\/em\u003e considers dedications issued in print between 1785 and 1850 in sets of overlapping corpuses: offerings to peers (as in Mozart's string quartets dedicated to Haydn); to patrons (as in Ignaz Pleyel's string quartets for Count Erd�dy); to friends (as in Ferdinand Ries's offerings for Beethoven); and dedications issued by publishers (as in Beethoven's song \"In questa tomba oscura,\" included in publisher Tranquillo Mollo's collection offered to Prince Lobkowitz). The result is a synchronic study that highlights the importance of printed packaging, rather than notes on the page, to the complex relationship between composers, publishers, and consumers of music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEMILY H. GREEN is Assistant Professor of Music at George Mason University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46457789612183,"sku":"9781580469494","price":13567.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781580469494.webp?v=1769183129","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dedicating-music-1785-1850-9781580469494","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}