Decorum in 18th Century Music
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Decorum, Rhetoric, Comic., 18th Century MusicAbstract
This article explores the concept of Decorum in texts from Antiquity and its humanist emulations, discussing its meaning within the realms of morality and rhetorical technique. The study focuses on the application of this concept in musical preceptive writings, particularly in Johann Mattheson’s treatise The Perfect Master-of-Chapel [Der vollkommene Capellmeister, 1739]. Based on Mattheson, we examine decorum in the context of musical genres and styles as well as in the domain of melodic invention, presenting the possibilities of “natural” decorum, in which there is a harmonious correspondence among the elements of the discourse, and “ridiculous” decorum, in which the lack of adequacy serves to represent vice and educate through contrast.
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