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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Historical Performance
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Early Music: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199831890
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
From Gregorian chant to Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly provides not only a compact overview of the music itself, but also a lively look at the many attempts over the last two centuries to revive it. Kelly shows that the early-music revival has long been grounded in the idea of spontaneity, of excitement, and of recapturing experiences otherwise lost to us--either the rediscovery of little-known repertories or the recovery of lost performing styles, with the conviction that, with the right performance, the music will come to life anew. Blending musical and social history, he shows how the Early Music movement in the 1960s took on political overtones, fueled by a rebellion against received wisdom and enforced conformity. Kelly also discusses ongoing debates about authenticity, the desirability of period instruments, and the relationship of mainstream opera companies and symphony orchestras to music that they often ignore, or play in modern fashion.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199831890
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
From Gregorian chant to Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly provides not only a compact overview of the music itself, but also a lively look at the many attempts over the last two centuries to revive it. Kelly shows that the early-music revival has long been grounded in the idea of spontaneity, of excitement, and of recapturing experiences otherwise lost to us--either the rediscovery of little-known repertories or the recovery of lost performing styles, with the conviction that, with the right performance, the music will come to life anew. Blending musical and social history, he shows how the Early Music movement in the 1960s took on political overtones, fueled by a rebellion against received wisdom and enforced conformity. Kelly also discusses ongoing debates about authenticity, the desirability of period instruments, and the relationship of mainstream opera companies and symphony orchestras to music that they often ignore, or play in modern fashion.
Liveness in Modern Music
Author: Paul Sanden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415895405
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This study investigates the idea and practice of liveness in modern music.. The book argues that liveness itself emerges from dynamic tensions inherent in mediated musical contexts--tensions between music as an acoustic human utterance, and musical sound as something produced or altered by machines.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415895405
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This study investigates the idea and practice of liveness in modern music.. The book argues that liveness itself emerges from dynamic tensions inherent in mediated musical contexts--tensions between music as an acoustic human utterance, and musical sound as something produced or altered by machines.
Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara
Author: Laurie Stras
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107154073
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107154073
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.
Cultivated by Hand
Author: Glenda Goodman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190884924
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-century amateurs. Often overlooked, amateur music making played a key role in the construction of gender, class, race, and nation in the post-revolution years of the United States. These early Americans, seeking ways to present themselves as genteel, erudite, and pious, saw copying music by hand and performing it in intimate social groups as a way to make themselves--and their new nation-appear culturally sophisticated. Following a select group of amateur musicians, Cultivated by Hand makes the case that amateur music making was both consequential to American culture of the eighteenth century and aligned with other forms of self-fashioning. This interdisciplinary study explores the social and material practices of amateur music making, analyzing the materiality of manuscripts, tracing the lives of individual musicians, and uncovering their musical tastes and sensibilities. Author Glenda Goodman explores highly personal yet often denigrated experiences of musically "accomplished" female amateurs in particular, who grappled with finding a meaningful place in their lives for music. Revealing the presence of these unacknowledged subjects in music history, Cultivated by Hand reclaims the importance of such work and presents a class of musicians whose labors should be taken into account.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190884924
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-century amateurs. Often overlooked, amateur music making played a key role in the construction of gender, class, race, and nation in the post-revolution years of the United States. These early Americans, seeking ways to present themselves as genteel, erudite, and pious, saw copying music by hand and performing it in intimate social groups as a way to make themselves--and their new nation-appear culturally sophisticated. Following a select group of amateur musicians, Cultivated by Hand makes the case that amateur music making was both consequential to American culture of the eighteenth century and aligned with other forms of self-fashioning. This interdisciplinary study explores the social and material practices of amateur music making, analyzing the materiality of manuscripts, tracing the lives of individual musicians, and uncovering their musical tastes and sensibilities. Author Glenda Goodman explores highly personal yet often denigrated experiences of musically "accomplished" female amateurs in particular, who grappled with finding a meaningful place in their lives for music. Revealing the presence of these unacknowledged subjects in music history, Cultivated by Hand reclaims the importance of such work and presents a class of musicians whose labors should be taken into account.
Early Music in America
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Category : Early-music groups
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Category : Early-music groups
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Early Concert-life in America (1731-1800)
Author: Oscar George Theodore Sonneck
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Category : Concerts
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category : Concerts
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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The Harmony of the World
Author: Johannes Kepler
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871692092
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The authors have presented and interpreted Johannes Kepler's Latin text to English readers by putting it into the kind of clear but earnest language they suppose Kepler would have used if he had been writing today.
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871692092
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The authors have presented and interpreted Johannes Kepler's Latin text to English readers by putting it into the kind of clear but earnest language they suppose Kepler would have used if he had been writing today.
Music and the Benefit Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Matthew Gardner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108492932
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Reveals how the musical benefit allowed musicians, composers, and audiences to engage in new professional, financial, and artistic contexts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108492932
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Reveals how the musical benefit allowed musicians, composers, and audiences to engage in new professional, financial, and artistic contexts.
Music and Musicians in Early America
Author: Irving Lowens
Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393097436
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Aspects of the history of music in early America and the history of early American music.
Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393097436
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Aspects of the history of music in early America and the history of early American music.