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Music of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England.... Read More >>
Plots the evolution of tonality and its bearing on style and the compositional process. This book states that the... Read More >>
From the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, devotional music played a fundamental role... Read More >>
A collection of chapters invited from some of the leading music researchers that consider the meanings and roles... Read More >>
Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) was not only the first person to hold the office of Master of the Music to King Charles... Read More >>
Using the influential Venetian composer Adrian Willaert's (1490-1562) music, this book reconstructs his innovative... Read More >>
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The concept of stylus phantasticus as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque is the... Read More >>
Peter Philips (1561-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting... Read More >>
Examines the musical culture of sixteenth-century Milan via its life within the city's most influential social institutions... Read More >>
The composer himself offers intriguing glimpses of his life and personality in excerpts from letters to family and... Read More >>
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) was the most important and influential German composer of the seventeenth century. In... Read More >>
In the eighteenth century the universal harmony of God's creation and the perfection of the unity (1:1) were philosophically,... Read More >>
Discover what it would be like to travel through the four seasons in one day, following a little girl called Isabelle... Read More >>
This book studies the uses of orality in Italian society, across all classes, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth... Read More >>
The Pilgrim Journey tells the story of pilgrimage in the Western world over the course of two millennia. Read More >>
This book is the first thorough study of Bach's popular Christmas Oratorio in English. While giving a comprehensive... Read More >>
A biography of the 18th century French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. Read More >>
For centuries, the augmented sixth sonority has fascinated composers and intrigued music analysts. This work presents... Read More >>
Drawing upon a rich array of sources from archives in Leipzig, Dresden and Halle, Tanya Kevorkian illuminates culture... Read More >>
Francesco Cavalli is credited with inventing the opera genre as we know it. Readying Cavalli's Operas for the Stage... Read More >>