Author: Douglas Moore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393002003
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Examines five great periods -- the Renaissance, Baroque, Classic, Romantic, and Modern -- and discusses every important type of composition from each era.
From Madrigal to Modern Music
Author: Douglas Moore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393002003
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Examines five great periods -- the Renaissance, Baroque, Classic, Romantic, and Modern -- and discusses every important type of composition from each era.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393002003
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Examines five great periods -- the Renaissance, Baroque, Classic, Romantic, and Modern -- and discusses every important type of composition from each era.
Modern Music and Musicians: The great composers, part 1. Critical and biographical sketches of the epoch-makers of music
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Modal Subjectivities
Author: Susan McClary
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520314255
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music a vast range of new signifying practices: musical representations of emotions, desire, gender stereotypes, reason, madness, tensions between mind and body, and much more. In doing so, it not only greatly expanded the expressive agendas of European music but also recorded certain assumptions of the time concerning selfhood, making it an invaluable resource for understanding the history of Western subjectivity. Modal Subjectivities covers the span of the sixteenth-century polyphonic madrigal, from its early manifestations in Philippe Verdelot's settings of Machiavelli in the 1520s through the tortured chromatic experiments of Carlo Gesualdo. Although McClary takes the lyrics into account in shaping her readings, she focuses particularly on the details of the music itself—the principal site of the genre's self-fashionings. In order to work effectively with musical meanings in this pretonal repertory, she also develops an analytical method that allows her to unravel the sophisticated allegorical structures characteristic of the madrigal. This pathbreaking book demonstrates how we might glean insights into a culture on the basis of its nonverbal artistic enterprises.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520314255
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music a vast range of new signifying practices: musical representations of emotions, desire, gender stereotypes, reason, madness, tensions between mind and body, and much more. In doing so, it not only greatly expanded the expressive agendas of European music but also recorded certain assumptions of the time concerning selfhood, making it an invaluable resource for understanding the history of Western subjectivity. Modal Subjectivities covers the span of the sixteenth-century polyphonic madrigal, from its early manifestations in Philippe Verdelot's settings of Machiavelli in the 1520s through the tortured chromatic experiments of Carlo Gesualdo. Although McClary takes the lyrics into account in shaping her readings, she focuses particularly on the details of the music itself—the principal site of the genre's self-fashionings. In order to work effectively with musical meanings in this pretonal repertory, she also develops an analytical method that allows her to unravel the sophisticated allegorical structures characteristic of the madrigal. This pathbreaking book demonstrates how we might glean insights into a culture on the basis of its nonverbal artistic enterprises.
Douglas Moore
Author: Jerry L. McBride
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 9780895796660
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
MLA Index and Bibliography Series vol. 36 Additional information online at https://www.areditions.com/books/IB036.html
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 9780895796660
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
MLA Index and Bibliography Series vol. 36 Additional information online at https://www.areditions.com/books/IB036.html
Modern music and musicians
Author: Ignace Jan Paderewski
Publisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Guarini's 'Il pastor fido' and the Madrigal
Author: Seth J. Coluzzi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315463032
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Battista Guarini’s pastoral tragicomedy Il pastor fido (1589) began its life as a play, but soon was transformed through numerous musical settings by prominent composers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through the many lives of this work, this book explores what happens when a lover’s lament is transplanted from the theatrical stage to the courtly chamber, from speech to song, and from a single speaking character to an ensemble of singers, shedding new light on early modern literary and musical culture. From the play’s beginnings in manuscripts, private readings, and aborted stage productions in the 1580s and 1590s, through the gradual decline of Pastor fido madrigals in the 1640s, this book examines how this widely read yet controversial text became the center of a lasting and prolific music tradition. Using a new integrative system of musical-textual analysis based on sixteenth-century theory, Seth Coluzzi demonstrates how composers responded not only to the sentiments, imagery, and form of the play’s speeches, but also to subtler details of Guarini’s verse. Viewing the musical history of Guarini’s work as an integral part of the play’s roles in the domains of theater, literature, and criticism, this book brings a new perspective to the late Italian madrigal, the play, and early modern patronage and readership across a diverse geographical and temporal frame.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315463032
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Battista Guarini’s pastoral tragicomedy Il pastor fido (1589) began its life as a play, but soon was transformed through numerous musical settings by prominent composers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through the many lives of this work, this book explores what happens when a lover’s lament is transplanted from the theatrical stage to the courtly chamber, from speech to song, and from a single speaking character to an ensemble of singers, shedding new light on early modern literary and musical culture. From the play’s beginnings in manuscripts, private readings, and aborted stage productions in the 1580s and 1590s, through the gradual decline of Pastor fido madrigals in the 1640s, this book examines how this widely read yet controversial text became the center of a lasting and prolific music tradition. Using a new integrative system of musical-textual analysis based on sixteenth-century theory, Seth Coluzzi demonstrates how composers responded not only to the sentiments, imagery, and form of the play’s speeches, but also to subtler details of Guarini’s verse. Viewing the musical history of Guarini’s work as an integral part of the play’s roles in the domains of theater, literature, and criticism, this book brings a new perspective to the late Italian madrigal, the play, and early modern patronage and readership across a diverse geographical and temporal frame.
From Psalm to Symphony
Author: Nicholas E. Tawa
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555534912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Examines for the first time New England's rich heritage of music making over a span of 350 years
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555534912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Examines for the first time New England's rich heritage of music making over a span of 350 years
Eroticism in Early Modern Music
Author: Bonnie Blackburn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317141733
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Eroticism in Early Modern Music contributes to a small but significant literature on music, sexuality, and sex in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Its chapters have grown from a long dialogue between a group of scholars, who employ a variety of different approaches to the repertoire: musical and visual analysis; archival and cultural history; gender studies; philology; and performance. By confronting musical, literary, and visual sources with historically situated analyses, the book shows how erotic life and sensibilities were encoded in musical works. Eroticism in Early Modern Music will be of value to scholars and students of early modern European history and culture, and more widely to a readership interested in the history of eroticism and sexuality.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317141733
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Eroticism in Early Modern Music contributes to a small but significant literature on music, sexuality, and sex in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Its chapters have grown from a long dialogue between a group of scholars, who employ a variety of different approaches to the repertoire: musical and visual analysis; archival and cultural history; gender studies; philology; and performance. By confronting musical, literary, and visual sources with historically situated analyses, the book shows how erotic life and sensibilities were encoded in musical works. Eroticism in Early Modern Music will be of value to scholars and students of early modern European history and culture, and more widely to a readership interested in the history of eroticism and sexuality.
Modern Music and Musicians
Author: Louis Charles Elson
Publisher: New York, University Society
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: New York, University Society
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Modern Music and Musicians: Encyclopedic v. 1. The pianist's guide.;-v. 2-3. The great composers; critical and biographical sketches
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description