Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books. King's Music Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521595124
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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This searching biography takes a fresh look at this elusive and misunderstood genius.

Author: William Barclay Squire
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Robin Stowell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139826549
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing, including aspects of contemporary and historical performing practice; and the mainstream repertory, including significant 'mixed ensemble' compositions involving string quartet. Various musical and pictorial illustrations and informative appendixes, including a chronology of the most significant works, complete this indispensable guide. Written for all string quartet enthusiasts, this Companion will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the genre, the context and significance of quartets as cultural phenomena, and the musical, technical and interpretative problems of chamber music performance. It will also enhance their experience of listening to quartets in performance and on recordings.

Author: Simon McVeigh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521028906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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This book is a detailed investigation of a lively and innovative period in London's cultural life.

Author: John Spitzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198164343
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 635

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This book traces the emergence of the orchestra from 16th-century string bands to the 'classical' orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries. Ensembles of bowed stringed instruments, several players per part plus continuo and wind instruments, were organized in France in the mid-17th century and then in Rome at the end of the century. The prestige of these ensembles and of the music and performing styles of their leaders, Jean-Baptiste Lully and ArcangeloCorelli, caused them to be imitated elsewhere, until by the late 18th century, the orchestra had become a pan-European phenomenon.Spitzer and Zaslaw review previous accounts of these developments, then proceed to a thoroughgoing documentation and discussion of orchestral organization, instrumentation, and social roles in France, Italy, Germany, England, and the American colonies. They also examine the emergence of orchestra musicians, idiomatic music for orchestras, orchestral performance practices, and the awareness of the orchestra as a central institution in European life.

Author: David Daiches
Publisher: London : Toronto : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: John Alfred Dwyer
Publisher: Mercat Press Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: William Weber
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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This is the first book to explore the formation of musical 'classics' in regard to repertory and social context. It examines the performance of old music in eighteenth-century England, from the interest in music of the Elizabethan period at the beginning of the century, through the performance of works by Henry Purcell, Arcangelo Corelli, and other English and Italian composers, and the development of festivals that featured choral-orchestral works of Purcell and Handel. It concludes with the establishment of the Concert of Antient Music in 1776, where the traditions of performing old works came together as a self-conscious canon focused upon the work of Handel. The book examines closely the political and social reasons for these developments. In addition, it shows how they laid the groundwork for the classical-music tradition of the nineteenth century.