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The Service-Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis
Images of Ritual and Music in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 1991
1968 kr
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The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis was founded in honour of Dionysius, one of seven missionaries sent from Rome to Gaul around 250. It grew to be one of the most powerful monasteries in western Christendom and enjoyed a central position in French history as the first Gothic abbey, royal necropolis, and …
The Ragas of Early Indian Music
Modes, Melodies, and Musical Notations from the Gupta Period to c. 1250
Inbunden, 1995
3280 kr
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The concept of raga, the traditional basis of melodic composition and improvisation in Indian classical music, has become familiar to listeners and musicologists throughout the world, but its historial origins and early development have been little explored. This book draws on written documents …
Music in Late Medieval Bruges
Häftad, 1990
863 kr
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The musical achievements of the so-called `Franco-Flemish School' have attracted many writers, yet Bruges itself has still to be put back on the map of European music history. This book describes how the people of Bruges shaped their acoustic environment and gave musical expression to their …
Salamone Rossi
Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua
Av Don Harran
Häftad, 2003
1735 kr
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Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1627) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European art music tradition. Working for the Gonzaga dukes in Mantua, yet remaining faithful to his own religious community, Rossi has a biography …
Time in Indian Music
Rhythm, Metre, and Form in North Indian Rag Performance
Av Clayton
Häftad, 2008
787 kr
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Time in Indian Music is the first major study of rhythm, metre, and form in North Indian rag, or classical, music. Martin Clayton presents a theoretical model for the organization of time in this repertory, a model which is related explicitly to other spheres of Indian thought and culture as well …
Music in the English Courtly Masque, 1604-1640
Av Peter Walls
Inbunden, 1996
3232 kr
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Those privileged enough to attend performances of masques at court in the early seventeenth century invariably commented on the sumptuousness of the music (and often had little to say about the literary aspects of the entertainments). Yet our view of the masque has been dominated by the texts, and …
The Music of Hans Pfitzner
Inbunden, 1992
3413 kr
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For many reasons Hans Pfitzner was and remains controversial. This stems partly from his difficult personality, and partly from the nationalistic context in which are set his cultural beliefs. His music has also tended to be coloured by such labels as conservative and romantic. Yet he actually has …
North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude
Inbunden, 1996
3294 kr
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Dietrich Buxtehude (c. 1637-1707) was the greatest figure in the history of German music between Schutz and Bach. His church music is performed today, yet that of his North German contemporaries (such as Matthias Weckmann, Christoph Bernhard, Nicolaus Bruhns, and Johann Meder) has received …
Mensuration and Proportion Signs
Origins and Evolution
Inbunden, 1993
3697 kr
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In the fourteenth century composers and theorists invented mensuration and proportion signs that allowed them increased flexibility and precision in notating a very wide range of rhythmic and metric relationships. The origin and interpretation of these signs is one of the least understood and most …
Salamone Rossi, Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua
Av Don Harran
Inbunden, 1999
4332 kr
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Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1628) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European art music tradition. In the field of instrumental music, he established the trio sonata as a standard combination of voices for 17th-century …
Agostino Agazzari and Music at Siena Cathedral, 1597-1641
Inbunden, 1993
3129 kr
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Agostino Agazzari (c.1580-c.1642) has long been recognized as one of the most prominent theorists of the early Baroque. The enduring fame of his 1607 treatise on the basso continuo has, however, overshadowed his equally significant contributions as a composer. And for all his renown, relatively …
Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods
Music and Theatre in Seventeenth-Century Spain
Inbunden, 1993
5287 kr
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This is the first comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century Spanish theatrical music to be written in any language. While particular aspects of the field have been explored before, no previous single study has succeeded in defining the place and function of music in the Spanish theatre, and the …
Handel and his Singers
The Creation of the Royal Academy Operas, 1720-1728
Inbunden, 1995
3508 kr
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From the early 18th century until the present day, opera seria as practised by Handel and his contemporaries has been the subject of satire and even derision for its dramatic artifice and virtuosic vocal displays. Close examination of Handel's autograph manuscripts, the librettos upon which they …
Haydn's Keyboard Music
Studies in Performance Practice
Inbunden, 1997
2941 kr
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In this comprehensive study of performance practice in Haydn's keyboard music, Bernard Harrison confronts the important issues facing any performer of Haydn's keyboard music. He deals with the full range of Haydn's keyboard work - concertos, divertimenti, concertini, trios, Klavierstücke, and …
Haydn's Symphonic Forms
Essays in Compositional Logic
Av Ethan Haimo
Inbunden, 1995
3508 kr
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Haydn never discussed his compositional ideas in much detail, either in the interviews he gave to an early biographer or in his surviving correspondence. Moreover, relatively few sketches of his compositions have been preserved. Therefore, attempts to reconstruct Haydn's compositional thought, and …
Handel's Muse
Patterns of Creation in his Oratorios and Musical Dramas, 1743-1751
Inbunden, 2001
3933 kr
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Handel's frequent and extensive alterations to his scores yield much valuable information on musical and extra-musical matters. This book represents the most thorough study to date of Handel's compositional procedures in his English oratorios and musical dramas. David Hurley examines six major …
Celestial Sirens
Nuns and Their Music in Early Modern Milan
Inbunden, 1996
4782 kr
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This study investigates an almost unknown musical culture: that of cloistered nuns in one of the major cities of early modern Europe. These women were the most famous musicians of Milan, and the music composed for them opens up a hitherto unstudied musical repertory, which allows insight into the …
Fortepianos and their Music
Germany, Austria, and England, 1760-1800
Inbunden, 1995
2941 kr
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Eighteenth-century pianos shaped and influenced the music that was written for them. However, although organological studies probe the instrument in ever more detail, and musical criticism focuses increasingly on the musical repertoire, the relationship between the two has not been properly …
Satie the Bohemian
From Cabaret to Concert Hall
Av Steven Moore Whiting, Steven M. Whiting
Inbunden, 1999
5065 kr
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Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian subculture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. Yet apologists have all too often downplayed this background as potentially harmful to the reputation of a composer whom they regarded as the progenitor of modern French …
Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France
Transmission and Style in Trouvére Repertoire
Av Mary O'Neill
Inbunden, 2006
3980 kr
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This book is the first full-length study of the courtly love songs of the trouvère to address the central musical problems of the repertoire as a whole, embracing source studies, interpretation, historiography, and analysis. The argument of the book revolves around three axes, each of which is …
Henry Lawes
Cavalier Songwriter
Av Ian Spink
Inbunden, 2000
3956 kr
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Henry Lawes (1596-1662) has long been acknowledged as the most important and prolific English songwriter between the death of John Dowland in 1626 and the birth of Henry Purcell in 1659. He is celebrated as Milton's collaborator in Comus (1634). Although he wrote some church music, Lawess …
Arcangelo Corelli
`New Orpheus of Our Times'
Av Peter Allsop
Inbunden, 1999
5283 kr
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The first full-length study for forty years, Arcangelo Corelli offers a much needed reassessment of the seminal composer's life and works. His current historical perspective is still largely conditioned by the opinions of Burney and Hawkins in the late 18th century who saw him as the consolidator …
The Chromatic Fourth During Four Centuries of Music
Inbunden, 1998
4121 kr
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Despite its rather forbidding name, the `Chromatic Fourth' is one of the most familiar short themes in virtually all western music over the four hundred years before the middle of our century. It is a sequence of six notes that can be heard in a huge variety of ways, most originally, effectively, …
Music Criticism in Vienna 1896-1897
Critically Moving Forms
Inbunden, 1996
4679 kr
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Music Criticism in Vienna records a culture in which musical criticism had achieved the status of a minor art form. The period covered - October 1896 to December 1897 - was an eventful time in Vienna. Bruckner died, then Brahms; Mahler arrived; premieres of works by Czech composers coincided with …
Four and Twenty Fiddlers
The Violin at the English Court 1540-1690
Av Holman
Häftad, 1996
1205 kr
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The royal string band at the English Court had its origins in a six-man consort from Italy, brought to England by Henry VIII in the spring of 1540. Peter Holman's book charts the history of this institution from its beginnings to the time of Purcell. He considers the previous history of …
Women Musicians of Venice
Musical Foundations, 1525-1855
Häftad, 1996
1769 kr
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This book opens a door long closed on an important era in the history of Venice. It presents, for the first time, an introductory, contextual study of three centuries of musical activity at the four major eleemosynary foundations of the former Republic of Venice: the ospedali grandi. It provides a …
Roman Monody, Cantata and Opera from the Circles around Cardinal Montalto
Volume 1: Text; Volume 2: Music
1997
3807 kr
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The subject of this book arises from the author's discovery or identification of ten important manuscripts of early seventeenth-century Italian solo song (monody) previously unexplored by modern scholars. Almost by coincidence, the author's research shows that all ten manuscripts preserve portions …
The Sound of Medieval Song
Ornamentation and Vocal Style According to the Treatises
Inbunden, 1998
2941 kr
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The Sound of Medieval Song is a study of how sacred and secular music was actually sung during the Middle Ages. The source of the information is the actual notation in the early manuscripts as well as statements found in approximately 50 theoretical treatises written between the years 600-1500. The …
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
A Bohemian Musician at the Court of Dresden
Inbunden, 2000
6456 kr
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Only in the latter half of the twentieth century did the star of Jan Dismas Zelenka begin to ascend. Why did this major Bohemian composer of the Baroque era - who was known to, and esteemed by Johann Sebastian Bach - remain in the shadows for so long? Although most of Zelenka's music was composed …
The Oratorio in Bologna 1650-1730
Inbunden, 1999
2989 kr
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In the seventeenth century Bologna developed a rich and diverse musical culture through the enterprise of musicians attached to the Basilica of S. Petronio and affiliated to the Accademia de'Filarmonici. Their achievements in the field of instrumental music (sonata, concerto) and festive church …
