A Good Quire Of Voices The Provision Of Choral Music At St George S Chapel Windsor Castle And Eton College C 1640 1733

Author : Keri Dexter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351735490

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A Good Quire of Voices: The Provision of Choral Music at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Eton College, c.1640-1733 by Keri Dexter Pdf

This title was first published in 2002: Until relatively recently, musicologists' account of church music in post-Restoration and early Georgian England has been substantially incomplete due to an almost exclusive preoccupation with the music and musicians of the Chapel Royal. The balance is now being redressed and this book begins the task of filling one of the remaining gaps in our understanding of the field. The volume represents a detailed examination of the practical workings of a choral foundation during the later 17th and early 18th centuries, placing the musicians within their wider historical and social contexts, and based on a comprehensive survey of extant archival material.

Author : James Michael Floyd,Avery T. Sharp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135848200

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Choral Music by James Michael Floyd,Avery T. Sharp Pdf

This is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites on choral music. This book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared since publication of the previous edition.

Author : Avery T. Sharp,James Michael Floyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780415994194

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Choral Music by Avery T. Sharp,James Michael Floyd Pdf

This is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites on choral music. This book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared since publication of the previous edition.

Author : Melvin P. Unger
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810873923

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Historical Dictionary of Choral Music by Melvin P. Unger Pdf

The Historical Dictionary of Choral Music focuses on choral music and practice in the Western world from the medieval era to the 21st century. This is done through a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 1000 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important composers, genres, conductors, institutions, styles, and technical terms of choral music.

Author : Joseph P. Swain
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461672128

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The A to Z of Sacred Music by Joseph P. Swain Pdf

Nearly all religious traditions have reserved a special place for sacred music. Whether it is music accompanying a ritual or purely for devotional purposes, music composed for entire congregations or for the trained soloist, or music set to holy words or purely instrumental, in some form or another, music is present. In fact, in some traditions the relation between the music and the ritual is so intimate that to distinguish between them would be inaccurate. The A to Z of Sacred Music covers the most important aspects of the sacred music of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other smaller religious groups. It provides useful information on all the significant traditions of this music through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on major types of music, composers, key religious figures, specialized positions, genres of composition, technical terms, instruments, fundamental documents and sources, significant places, and important musical compositions.

Author : Joseph P. Swain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442264632

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Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music by Joseph P. Swain Pdf

Sacred music is a universal phenomenon of humanity. Where there is faith, there is music to express it. Every major religious tradition and most minor ones have music and have it in abundance and variety. There is music to accompany ritual and music purely for devotion, music for large congregations and music for trained soloists, music that sets holy words and music without words at all. In some traditions—Islamic and many Native American, to name just two--the relation between music and religious ritual is so intimate that it is inaccurate to speak of the music accompanying the ritual. Rather, to perform the ritual is to sing, and to sing the ritual is to perform it. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on major types of music, composers, key religious figures, specialized positions, genres of composition, technical terms, instruments, fundamental documents and sources, significant places, and important musical compositions. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about sacred music.

Author : Rebecca Herissone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317043263

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell by Rebecca Herissone Pdf

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of current research into Purcell and the environment of Restoration music, with contributions from leading experts in the field. Seen from the perspective of modern, interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship, the companion allows the reader to develop a rounded view of the environment in which Purcell lived, the people with whom he worked, the social conditions that influenced his activities, and the ways in which the modern perception of him has been affected by reception of his music after his death. In this sense the contributions do not privilege the individual over the environment: rather, they use the modern reader's familiarity with Purcell's music as a gateway into the broader Restoration world. Topics include a reassessment of our understanding of Purcell's sources and the transmission of his music; new ways of approaching the study of his creative methods; performance practice; the multi-faceted theatre environment in which his work was focused in the last five years of his life; the importance of the political and social contexts of late seventeenth-century England; and the ways in which the performance history and reception of his music have influenced modern appreciation of the composer. The book will be essential reading for anyone studying the music and culture of the seventeenth century.

Author : Matthias Range
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139560993

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Music and Ceremonial at British Coronations by Matthias Range Pdf

Coronations are the grandest of all state occasions. This is the first comprehensive in-depth study of the music that was performed at British coronations from 1603 to the present, encompassing the sixteen coronations that have taken place in Westminster Abbey and the last two Scottish coronations. Range describes how music played a crucial role at the coronations and how the practical requirements of the ceremonial proceedings affected its structure and performance. The programme of music at each coronation is reconstructed, accompanied by a wealth of transcriptions of newly discovered primary source material, revealing findings that lead to fresh conclusions about performance practices. The coronation ceremonies are placed in their historical context, including the political background and the concept of invented traditions. The study is an invaluable resource not only for musicologists and historians, but also for performers, providing a fascinating insight into the greatest of all Royal events.

Author : Rebecca Herissone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107292321

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Musical Creativity in Restoration England by Rebecca Herissone Pdf

Musical Creativity in Restoration England is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to creating music in late seventeenth-century England. Understanding creativity during this period is particularly challenging because many of our basic assumptions about composition – such as concepts of originality, inspiration and genius – were not yet fully developed. In adopting a new methodology that takes into account the historical contexts in which sources were produced, Rebecca Herissone challenges current assumptions about compositional processes and offers new interpretations of the relationships between notation, performance, improvisation and musical memory. She uncovers a creative culture that was predominantly communal, and reveals several distinct approaches to composition, determined not by individuals, but by the practical function of the music. Herissone's new and original interpretations pose a fundamental challenge to our preconceptions about what it meant to be a composer in the seventeenth century and raise broader questions about the interpretation of early modern notation.

Author : Hyun-Ah Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317119586

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Humanism and the Reform of Sacred Music in Early Modern England by Hyun-Ah Kim Pdf

John Merbecke (c.1505-c.1585) is most famous as the composer of the first musical setting of the English liturgy, The Booke of Common Praier Noted (BCPN), published in 1550. Not only was Merbecke a pioneer in setting English prose to music but also the compiler of the first Concordance of the whole English Bible (1550) and of the first English encyclopaedia of biblical and theological studies, A Booke of Notes and Common Places (1581). By situating Merbecke and his work within a broader intellectual and religio-cultural context of Tudor England, this book challenges the existing studies of Merbecke based on the narrow theological approach to the Reformation. Furthermore, it suggests a re-thinking of the prevailing interpretative framework of Reformation musical history. On the basis of the new contextual study of Merbecke, this book seeks to re-interpret his work, particularly BCPN, in the light of humanist rhetoric. It sees Merbecke as embodying the ideal of the 'Christian-musical orator', demonstrating that BCPN is an Anglican epitome of the Erasmian synthesis of eloquence, theology and music. The book thus depicts Merbecke as a humanist reformer, through re-evaluation of his contributions to the developments of vernacular music and literature in early modern England. As such it will be of interest, not only to church musicians, but also to historians of the Reformation and students of wider Tudor culture.

Author : New York Public Library. Music Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015048284833

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Bibliographic Guide to Music by New York Public Library. Music Division Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114067775

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Brio by Anonim Pdf

Author : American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,Jim Springer Borck
Publisher : AMS Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0404622305

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The Eighteenth Century by American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,Jim Springer Borck Pdf

This 17th volume from the series of bibliographies of the 18th century is divided into sections on: printing and bibliographic studies; historical, social and economic studies; philosophy, science and religion; the fine arts; literary studies; and individual authors.

Author : Andrew Hegarty
Publisher : Oxford Historical Society
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0904107248

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A Biographical Register of St. John's College, Oxford, 1555-1660 by Andrew Hegarty Pdf

Full biographical accounts of the members of St John's College Oxford give much new evidence for academic life of the period. This volume comprises a register of all who were academically of St John's College, Oxford, from its foundation in 1555 until 1660, as well as of a number of men otherwise associated with it. It includes many figures of nationalimportance, among them William Laud, William Juxon, Edmund Campion, and Bulstrode Whitelocke, scholarly translators of the Bible, five future earls, and many Members of Parliament. The biographies, based on a very wide rangeof sources, amplify and correct existing work and identify many previously unknown St John's men. The introduction draws on this new research to provide a richer and more nuanced portrayal of an early-modern Oxford college than any so far attempted - and, since the College was both a Catholic Marian foundation and the institution in which Laud spend much of his life, makes a significant contribution to an understanding of the ramifications of early modernEnglish religious loyalties. The College's involvement in early academic drama in Oxford also receives special attention, as do its many Shakespearean connections (both family and Warwickshire affinity). An extensive Glossary provides essential supplementary guidance to the workings of the early-modern academic world. Andrew Hegarty gained his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford; his research is on the history of European universities in theearly modern period.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079882596

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Bibliographic Index by Anonim Pdf