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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 …
Playing with History
The Historical Approach to Musical Performance
Häftad, 2002
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552 kr
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Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In this 2002 study, John Butt sums up debates on the nature of the early music movement and historically informed performance, calling upon a seemingly inexhaustible fund of …
The Modern Invention of Medieval Music
Scholarship, Ideology, Performance
Häftad, 2007
435 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 …
The Keyboard in Baroque Europe
Häftad, 2009
623 kr
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Twelve of today's most distinguished scholar-performers offer essays in this volume on new and intriguing aspects of baroque keyboard music. Topics include fresh evidence on music of the seventeenth century (Frescobaldi, Froberger and Purcell), the place of the keyboard in concerted music and on …
Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères
The Changing Identity of Medieval Music
Av John Haines
Häftad, 2009
738 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 …
Beethoven the Pianist
Inbunden, 2010
1677 kr
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The widely held belief that Beethoven was a rough pianist, impatient with his instruments, is not altogether accurate: it is influenced by anecdotes dating from when deafness had begun to impair his playing. Presenting a detailed biography of Beethoven's formative years, this book reviews the …
Histories of Heinrich Schütz
Inbunden, 2011
1677 kr
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Bettina Varwig places the music of the celebrated Dresden composer Heinrich Schütz in a richly detailed tapestry of cultural, political, religious and intellectual contexts. Four key events in Schütz's career - the 1617 Reformation centenary, the performance of his Dafne in 1627, the 1636 funeral …
Bach's Feet
The Organ Pedals in European Culture
Inbunden, 2012
1677 kr
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The organist seated at the king of instruments with thousands of pipes rising all around him, his hands busy at the manuals and his feet patrolling the pedalboard, is a symbol of musical self-sufficiency yielding musical possibilities beyond that of any other mode of solo performance. In this book, …
Engaging Bach
The Keyboard Legacy from Marpurg to Mendelssohn
Inbunden, 2012
1677 kr
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More than any other part of Bach's output, his keyboard works conveyed the essence of his inimitable art to generations of admirers. The varied responses to this repertory - in scholarly and popular writing, public lectures, musical composition and transcription, performances and editions - ensured …
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 …
Playing with History
The Historical Approach to Musical Performance
Av John Butt
Inbunden, 2002
1391 kr
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Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In this 2002 study, John Butt sums up debates on the nature of the early music movement and historically informed performance, calling upon a seemingly inexhaustible fund of …
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 …
Stradivari
Inbunden, 2010
2583 kr
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For over 200 years, Antonio Stradivari has been universally regarded as the greatest violin maker who ever lived, yet it is not widely known that he made virtually every kind of bowed- and plucked-string instrument popular in the Baroque period, including lutes, viols, mandolins, guitars, and …
French Organ Music in the Reign of Louis XIV
Inbunden, 2011
1805 kr
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Presenting a fresh approach to French organ music, David Ponsford analyses the repertory from the reign of Louis XIV by genre. The colourful French organ was so consistent in design that the very titles of pieces that were constituent parts of organ masses, Magnificats and suites prescribed the …
Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell
Av Alan Howard
Inbunden, 2019
1677 kr
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Fugal invention has proved a successful line of analytical inquiry in recent studies of repertoires from Josquin to J. S. Bach. Alan Howard brings similar insights to the music of Henry Purcell, and proposes the first analytical approach to his music to examine compositional methods alongside …
The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger
Performing Past and Future between the Wars
Inbunden, 2013
1677 kr
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Nadia Boulanger - composer, critic, impresario and the most famous composition teacher of the twentieth century - was also a performer of international repute. Her concerts and recordings with her vocal ensemble introduced audiences on both sides of the Atlantic to unfamiliar historical works and …
The Guitar in Tudor England
A Social and Musical History
Inbunden, 2015
1677 kr
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Few now remember that the guitar was popular in England during the age of Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare, and yet it was played everywhere from the royal court to the common tavern. This groundbreaking book, the first entirely devoted to the renaissance guitar in England, deploys new literary and …
The Guitar in Tudor England
A Social and Musical History
Häftad, 2018
574 kr
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Few now remember that the guitar was popular in England during the age of Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare, and yet it was played everywhere from the royal court to the common tavern. This groundbreaking book, the first entirely devoted to the renaissance guitar in England, deploys new literary and …
The Guitar in Stuart England
A Social and Musical History
Häftad, 2019
574 kr
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This is the first history of the guitar during the reign of the Stuarts, a time of great political and social upheaval in England. In this engaging and original volume, Christopher Page gathers a rich array of portraits, literary works and other, previously unpublished, archival materials in order …
The Guitar in Stuart England
A Social and Musical History
Inbunden, 2017
1677 kr
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This is the first history of the guitar during the reign of the Stuarts, a time of great political and social upheaval in England. In this engaging and original volume, Christopher Page gathers a rich array of portraits, literary works and other, previously unpublished, archival materials in order …
Musical Authorship from Schütz to Bach
Av Stephen Rose
Inbunden, 2019
1677 kr
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What did the term 'author' denote for Lutheran musicians in the generations between Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach? As part of the Musical Performance and Reception series, this book examines attitudes to authorship as revealed in the production, performance and reception of music in …
Musical Authorship from Schütz to Bach
Av Stephen Rose
Häftad, 2021
586 kr
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What did the term 'author' denote for Lutheran musicians in the generations between Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach? As part of the Musical Performance and Reception series, this book examines attitudes to authorship as revealed in the production, performance and reception of music in …
The Guitar in Victorian England
A Social and Musical History
Inbunden, 2025
1493 kr
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In 1893 Clara Lindow sang the ballad Dreamtide to her own guitar accompaniment in the Cumbrian hamlet of Lowick. A writer for the local newspaper not only admired her 'marked skill and ability' but also considered the concert to be a sign of 'the onward march of light and learning in our time'. …
The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger
Performing Past and Future between the Wars
Häftad, 2016
586 kr
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Nadia Boulanger - composer, critic, impresario and the most famous composition teacher of the twentieth century - was also a performer of international repute. Her concerts and recordings with her vocal ensemble introduced audiences on both sides of the Atlantic to unfamiliar historical works and …
French Organ Music in the Reign of Louis XIV
Häftad, 2016
452 kr
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Presenting a fresh approach to French organ music, David Ponsford analyses the repertory from the reign of Louis XIV by genre. The colourful French organ was so consistent in design that the very titles of pieces that were constituent parts of organ masses, Magnificats and suites prescribed the …
Bach's Feet
The Organ Pedals in European Culture
Häftad, 2017
459 kr
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The organist seated at the king of instruments with thousands of pipes rising all around him, his hands busy at the manuals and his feet patrolling the pedalboard, is a symbol of musical self-sufficiency yielding musical possibilities beyond that of any other mode of solo performance. In this book, …
Performing Brahms
Early Evidence of Performance Style
Av Michael Musgrave, Bernard D. Sherman
2003
2313 kr
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A great deal of evidence survives about how Brahms and his contemporaries performed his music. But much of this evidence - found in letters, autograph scores, treatises, publications, recordings, and more - has been hard to access, both for musicians and for scholars. This book brings the most …
