Author: John Hawkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108029957
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545

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Hawkins' pioneering contribution to music history remains of significant interest today despite its unfavourable comparison to Burney's in his lifetime.

Author: John Hawkins
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Author: Sir John Hawkins
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368717987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author: sir John Hawkins
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Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Author: John Hawkins
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Author: Grevel Lindop
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100074969X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403

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Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the first part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.

Author: John Harley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317010353
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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John Harley’s Thomas Tallis is the first full-length book to deal comprehensively with the composer’s life and works. Tallis entered the Chapel Royal in the middle of a long life, and remained there for over 40 years. During a colourful period of English history he famously served King Henry VIII and the three of Henry’s children who followed him to the throne. His importance for English music during the second half of the sixteenth century is equalled only by that of his pupil, colleague and friend William Byrd. In a series of chronological chapters, Harley describes Tallis’s career before and after he entered the Chapel. The fully considered biography is placed in the context of larger political and cultural changes of the period. Each monarch’s reign is treated with an examination of the ways in which Tallis met its particular musical needs. Consideration is given to all of Tallis’s surviving compositions, including those probably intended for patrons and amateurs beyond the court, and attention is paid to the context within which they were written. Tallis emerges as a composer whose music displays his special ability in setting words and creating ingenious musical patterns. A table places most of Tallis’s compositions in a broad chronological order.

Author: Christopher D.S. Field
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351561588
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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John Birchensha (c.1605-?1681) is chiefly remembered for the impression that his theories about music made on the mathematicians, natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society in the 1660s and 1670s, and for inventing a system that he claimed would enable even those without practical experience of music to learn to compose in a short time by means of 'a few easy, certain, and perfect Rules'-his most famous composition pupil being Samuel Pepys in 1662. His great aim was to publish a treatise on music in its philosophical, mathematical and practical aspects (which would have included a definitive summary of his rules of composition), entitled Syntagma music Subscriptions for this book were invited in 1672-3, and it was due to be published by March 1675; but it never appeared, and no final manuscript of it survives. Consequently knowledge about his work has hitherto remained extremely sketchy. Recent research, however, has brought to light a number of manuscripts which allow us at last to form a more complete view of Birchensha's ideas. Almost none of this material has been previously published. The new items include an autograph treatise of c.1664 ('A Compendious Discourse of the Principles of the Practicall & Mathematicall Partes of Musick') which Birchensha presented to the natural philosopher Robert Boyle, and which covers concisely much of the ground that he intended to cover in Syntagma music a detailed synopsis for Syntagma music hich he prepared for a meeting of the Royal Society in February 1676; and an autograph notebook (now in Brussels) containing his six rules of composition with music examples, presumably written for a pupil. Bringing all this material together in a single volume will allow scholars to see how Birchensha's rules and theories developed over a period of fifteen years, and to gain at least a flavour of the lost Syntagma music

Author: Harold Reeves (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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Author: Louis Epstein
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 1643150219
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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This volume collects exciting new work in musicology.