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16 produkter
Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination
Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music
Av James Garratt, John Butt m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
738 kr
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Focusing on the reception of Palestrina, this bold interdisciplinary study explains how and why the works of a sixteenth-century composer came to be viewed as a paradigm for modern church music. It explores the diverse ways in which later composers responded to his works and style, and expounds a …
Bach Interpretation
Articulation Marks in Primary Sources of J. S. Bach
Av John Butt, Laurence Dreyfus
Häftad, 2006
502 kr
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This study is a comprehensive assessment of J. S. Bach's use of articulation marks (i.e. slurs and dots) in the large body of primary sources. Dr Butt analyses the role of such markings within the compositional process, how they relate to the norms of articulation of the period, and how they might …
Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque
Av John Butt, Laurence Dreyfus m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
935 kr
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In considering the role of practical music in education, this book attempts to define the art of performance in Germany during the Baroque period. The author examines the large number of surviving treatises and instruction manuals used in the Lutheran 'Latin' schools during the period 1530-1800 and …
The Early History of the Viol
Av Ian Woodfield, John Butt m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
607 kr
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This book traces the development of the viol from its late medieval Spanish origins to the sixteenth century, when it became the most widely played bowed instrument in western Europe. Ian Woodfield examines the two most important ancestors of the instrument, the Moorish rahab and the vihuela de …
Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque
Av John Butt, John Butt m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1962 kr
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In considering the role of practical music in education, this book attempts to define the art of performance in Germany during the Baroque period. The author examines the large number of surviving treatises and instruction manuals used in the Lutheran 'Latin' schools during the period 1530-1800 and …
One Hundred Years of Violoncello
A History of Technique and Performance Practice, 1740-1840
Av Valerie Walden, John Butt m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
491 kr
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This is the first book to address the full range of performance issues for the cello from the Baroque to the early Romantic period. The development of playing techniques and stylistic transitions are traced regionally through a comparison of Italian, French, German, English, and East European …
German Instrumental Music of the Late Middle Ages
Players, Patrons and Performance Practice
Av Keith Polk, John Butt m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
938 kr
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This book describes instrumental music and its context in German society of the late middle ages - from about 1350 to 1520. Players at that time improvised, much like jazz musicians of our day, but because they did not use notated music, only scant remnants of their activity have survived in …
The Clavichord
Av Bernard Brauchli, John Butt m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
502 kr
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The clavichord, forerunner of the piano, was one of the most important instruments in Western keyboard history until the first decades of the nineteenth century. Bernard Brauchli's comprehensive history fills a major gap in the literature on this instrument. Beginning with the earliest-known …
The Making of the Victorian Organ
Av Nicholas Thistlethwaite, John Butt m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
720 kr
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This important 1990 book provides a comprehensive survey of English organ building during the most innovative fifty years in its history. Between 1820 and 1870 a number of influences combined to bring about a radical transformation in the design and use of English organs. Thistlethwaite considers …
Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination
Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music
Av James Garratt, John Butt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1912 kr
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Focusing on the reception of Palestrina, this bold interdisciplinary study explains how and why the works of a sixteenth-century composer came to be viewed as a paradigm for modern church music. It explores the diverse ways in which later composers responded to his works and style, and expounds a …
The Modern Invention of Medieval Music
Scholarship, Ideology, Performance
Av Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, John Butt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
2029 kr
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Medieval music has been made and remade over the past two hundred years. For the nineteenth century it was vocal, without instrumental accompaniment, but with barbarous harmony that no one could have wished to hear. For most of the twentieth century it was instrumentally accompanied, increasingly …
Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères
The Changing Identity of Medieval Music
Av John Haines, John Butt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2029 kr
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This 2004 book traces the changing interpretation of troubadour and trouvere music, a repertoire of songs which have successfully maintained public interest for eight centuries, from the medieval chansonniers to contemporary rap renditions. A study of their reception therefore serves to illustrate …
Bach’s Continuo Group
Players and Practices in His Vocal Works
Häftad, 1990
431 kr
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When Bach’s cantatas, masses, passions, and chorales were originally performed under the composer’s direction, which instruments played the basso continuo, the line that establishes the harmonic framework? Bach’s Continuo Group answers this and other fundamental questions and probes the rationale …
Wagner and the Erotic Impulse
Häftad, 2012
288 kr
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Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his works, Laurence Dreyfus shows how Wagner’s obsession with sexuality …
Bach and the Patterns of Invention
Häftad, 2004
318 kr
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In this major new interpretation of the music of J. S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach’s music “against the grain” of contemporaries such as Vivaldi and Telemann, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach’s approach to musical invention in a …
