Die Schlacht von MarengoĪlessandra Palidda, Milan and the Music of Political Transitions in the Napoleonic Period: The Case of Ambrogio Minoja (1752-1825) Stephanie Klauk, Italienische Schlachtenmusiken zu Napoleon Bonaparte. Éric Sauda, La chanson au front durant la Grande Guerreīella Brover-Lubovsky, Music for Cannons: Giuseppe Sarti in the Second Turkish War The Case of the Great Highland Bagpipe in the Nineteenth Century Morag Josephine Grant, Music during Battle: Representation and Reality.

Martin Kaltenecker, «What Scenes! – What Sounds!». What kind of connections can be found between music, musicians or the musical economy (editions, the circulation of scores, opera and concert programming, professionalisation) and the different conflicts that would tear the European continent apart? Bringing together more than twenty case studies dealing with several European wars, this volume also investigates the evolution of the perception of the sound of war (by Martin Kaltenecker), and proposes new perspectives based on recent 20th-century music and war studies.

While joining the efforts to enlighten this particularly little-known period of music history, this book aims to investigate that relationship by adopting a larger time-span: from the end of eighteenth century until the outbreak of the First World War. Thanks to several conferences and publications, our knowledge about the musical repertoire played on the home front, the musical practices of the soldiers, or the war’s impact on European musical life, is expanding. The centennial commemorations of the Great War in 2014 have yielded significant research on the relationship between music and this first world-wide conflict.

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