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Musical Authorship From Schutz To Bach

by Stephen (Royal Holloway, University Of London) Rose

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 Aimed at students and researchers of music history, publishing history and cultural history, this study illuminates ideas of creativity and individuality in the seventeenth century. Its interdisciplinary approach shows how notions of the musical author were defined via the making, ownership, performance and reception of music.
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The Guitar In Stuart England - A Social And Musical History

by Christopher (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge) Page

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 The guitar is the most played instrument in the West. This book charts its success in England during the seventeenth century, a time of great political upheaval in England. It gathers a rich array of portraits, archival materials and literary works, and will interest guitar enthusiasts as well as music historians.
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Musical Authorship From Schutz To Bach

by Stephen (Royal Holloway, University Of London) Rose

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 Aimed at students and researchers of music history, publishing history and cultural history, this study illuminates ideas of creativity and individuality in the seventeenth century. Its interdisciplinary approach shows how notions of the musical author were defined via the making, ownership, performance and reception of music.
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The Guitar In Tudor England - A Social And Musical History

by Christopher (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge) Page

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 The guitar was played everywhere in the age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare, from the royal court to the tavern. This groundbreaking book uses new literary and archival material, together with depictions in contemporary art, to explore the social and musical world of the instrument among courtiers, gentlemen and apprentices.
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The Guitar In Stuart England - A Social And Musical History

by Christopher (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge) Page

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 The guitar is the most played instrument in the West. This book charts its success in England during the seventeenth century, a time of great political upheaval in England. It gathers a rich array of portraits, archival materials and literary works, and will interest guitar enthusiasts as well as music historians.
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Bach'S Feet - The Organ Pedals In European Culture

by David (Cornell University, New York) Yearsley

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 From 1500, the independent use of the feet in musical performance at the organ was unique to Germany and vital to its cultural standing in Europe. Yearsley presents an account of this mode of music-making spanning some 500 years, including reappraising J. S. Bach's crucial role in that history.
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French Organ Music In The Reign Of Louis Xiv - Musical Performance And Reception

by David (Cardiff University) Ponsford

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 Ponsford takes a fresh approach to French Baroque organ music by analysing each genre chronologically and tracing influences from Italian and French secular music. The study enhances understanding of French influence on J. S. Bach, and will appeal to all those who play, study and admire this unique repertory.
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The Musical Work Of Nadia Boulanger - Performing Past And Future Between The Wars

by Jeanice (University Of Southampton) Brooks

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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. This book is the first to investigate Boulanger's performing career, tracing her influence on musical performance in Europe and America in the years before 1945.
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The Guitar In Tudor England - A Social And Musical History

by Christopher (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge) Page

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 The guitar was played everywhere in the age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare, from the royal court to the tavern. This groundbreaking book uses new literary and archival material, together with depictions in contemporary art, to explore the social and musical world of the instrument among courtiers, gentlemen and apprentices.
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French Organ Music In The Reign Of Louis Xiv - Inspiring The Baroque From Couperin To J. S. Bach

by David (Cardiff University) Ponsford

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 Ponsford takes a fresh approach to French Baroque organ music by analysing each genre chronologically and tracing influences from Italian and French secular music. The study enhances understanding of French influence on J. S. Bach, and will appeal to all those who play, study and admire this unique repertory.
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Eight Centuries Of Troubadours And Trouveres - The Changing Identity Of Medieval Music

by John (University Of Toronto) Haines

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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 the development of the modern concept of 'medieval music'.
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Bach'S Feet - The Organ Pedals In European Culture

by David (Cornell University, New York) Yearsley

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 From 1500, the independent use of the feet in musical performance at the organ was unique to Germany and vital to its cultural standing in Europe. Yearsley presents an account of this mode of music-making spanning some 500 years, including reappraising J. S. Bach's crucial role in that history.
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Histories Of Heinrich Schutz

by Bettina (King'S College London) Varwig

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 Varwig places the music of the celebrated seventeenth-century Dresden composer Heinrich SchÃ¼tz in a richly detailed historical context, considering its role within major political, religious and intellectual currents in early modern Germany. The analysis is complemented by a critical examination of the composer's later reception in nineteenth- and twentieth-century German historiography.
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Engaging Bach - The Keyboard Legacy From Marpurg To Mendelssohn

by Matthew (University Of Houston) Dirst

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 Matthew Dirst presents a wide-ranging historical explanation of J. S. Bach's keyboard works. Closely examining the most important ideas this music has inspired, Dirst explores the significance, influence and reception of canonic works including The Well-Tempered Clavier during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Palestrina And The German Romantic Imagination - Interpreting Historicism In Nineteenth-Century Music

by James (National University Of Ireland, Maynooth) Garratt

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 James Garratt explores the revival of sixteenth-century music in nineteenth-century Germany, focusing on the reception of Palestrina by critics, historians, performers and composers. This book will interest scholars, students and devotees of nineteenth-century music, and those interested in nineteenth-century culture, art, architecture, literature and aesthetics, and the early music revival.
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Beethoven The Pianist

by Tilman Skowroneck

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 Presenting a picture of Beethoven's formative years and early career, this study shows how the composer was influenced by teachers, theorists and instruments. Skowroneck pays special attention to Beethoven's trills and legato, and thoroughly revises the idea that Beethoven treated his pianos roughly and with impatience throughout his career.
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Stradivari

by Stewart (Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York) Pollens

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 Since the eighteenth century Antonio Stradivari has been universally regarded as the greatest of all violin makers. Stradivari provides a fascinating biography of this legendary maker, as well as a detailed study of the tools he used. Lavishly illustrated throughout, the book includes colour photographs of 16 famous Stradivari instruments.
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Eight Centuries Of Troubadours And Trouveres - The Changing Identity Of Medieval Music

by John (University Of Toronto) Haines

59,48€ + 10% CARD

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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 the development of the modern concept of 'medieval music'.
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The Keyboard In Baroque Europe - Musical Performance And Reception

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 Twelve of today's most distinguished scholar-performers offer essays on new and intriguing aspects of baroque keyboard music. The volume gives a balanced picture of the latest theories and discoveries, and concludes with a new arrangement for keyboard of Bach's D minor Violin Partita, published here for the first time.
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The Modern Invention Of Medieval Music - Scholarship, Ideology, Performance

by Daniel (King'S College London) Leech-Wilkinson

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 Medieval music has become hugely popular but it is largely a modern construct. The story of the reinvention of medieval music is told here - a story of individuals, the societies in which they worked, their tastes and beliefs, all interacting to remake a lost musical world.
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Palestrina And The German Romantic Imagination - Interpreting Historicism In Nineteenth-Century Music

by James (National University Of Ireland, Maynooth) Garratt

152,76€ + 10% CARD

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 James Garratt explores the revival of sixteenth-century music in nineteenth-century Germany, focusing on the reception of Palestrina by critics, historians, performers and composers. This book will interest scholars, students and devotees of nineteenth-century music, and those interested in nineteenth-century culture, art, architecture, literature and aesthetics, and the early music revival.
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The Modern Invention Of Medieval Music - Scholarship, Ideology, Performance

by Daniel (King'S College London) Leech-Wilkinson

154,11€ + 10% CARD

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 Medieval music has become hugely popular but it is largely a modern construct. The story of the reinvention of medieval music is told here - a story of individuals, the societies in which they worked, their tastes and beliefs, all interacting to remake a lost musical world.
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Playing With History - The Historical Approach To Musical Performance

by John (University Of Glasgow) Butt

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 In this challenging 2002 study, John Butt sums up debates on the nature of historically informed musical performance, calling upon a seemingly inexhaustible fund of ideas gleaned from historical musicology, analytic philosophy, literary theory, historiography and theories of modernism and postmodernism.
The Guitar In Victorian England - A Social And Musical History

by Christopher (University Of Cambridge) Page

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 The guitar could be taken anywhere: a boat, a village hall, a workhouse. Its social and musical history therefore touches upon many aspects of VictorianÂ life such as the growth of leisure activities, the rise of music hall, parish entertainments for good causes and the freedoms newly enjoyed by women.
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