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Author : David Ponsford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521887700
A radical new approach to French Baroque organ music in which developments in musical style are coupled to performance practice.
Author : John D. Lyons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190678470
Few periods in history are so fundamentally contradictory as the Baroque, the culture flourishing from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries in Europe. When we hear the term âBaroque,â the first images that come to mind are symmetrically designed gardens in French chateaux, scenic fountains in Italian squares, and the vibrant rhythms of a harpsichord. Behind this commitment to rule, harmony, and rigid structure, however, the Baroque also embodies a deep fascination with wonder, excess, irrationality, and rebellion against order. The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque delves into this contradiction to provide a sweeping survey of the Baroque not only as a style but also as a historical, cultural, and intellectual concept. With its thirty-eight chapters edited by leading expert John D. Lyons, the Handbook explores different manifestations of Baroque culture, from theatricality in architecture and urbanism to opera and dance, from the role of water to innovations in fashion, from mechanistic philosophy and literature to the tension between religion and science. These discussions present the Baroque as a broad cultural phenomenon that arose in response to the enormous changes emerging from the sixteenth century: the division between Catholics and Protestants, the formation of nation-states and the growth of absolutist monarchies, the colonization of lands outside Europe and the mutual impact of European and non-European cultures. Technological developments such as the telescope and the microscope and even greater access to high-quality mirrors altered mankindâs view of the universe and of human identity itself. By exploring the Baroque in relation to these larger social upheavals, this Handbook reveals a fresh and surprisingly modern image of the Baroque as a powerful response to an epoch of crisis.
Author : Rachelle Taylor,Hank Knox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351254946
The twentieth-century revival of early music unfolded in two successive movements rooted respectively in nineteenth-century antiquarianism and in rediscovery of the value of original instruments. The present volume is a collection of insights reflecting the principal concerns of the second of those revivals, focusing on early keyboards, and beginning in the 1950s. The volume and its authors acknowledge Canadian harpsichordist Kenneth Gilbert (b. 1931) as one of this revival’s leaders. The content reflects international research on early keyboard music, sources, instruments, theory, editing, and discography. Considerations that echo throughout the book are the problematics of source attributions, progressive institutionalization of early music, historical instruments as agents of artistic change and education, antecedents and networks of the revival seen as a social phenomenon, the impact of historical performance and the quest for understanding style and genre. The chapters cover historical performance practice, source studies, edition, theory and form, and instrument curating and building. Among their authors are prominent figures in performance, music history, editing, instrument building and restoration, and theory, some of whom engaged with the early keyboard revival as it was happening.
Author : Simon Trezise
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521877947
This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.
Author : Elena Paradies
Publisher : Paradies eBooks
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This volume offers valuable guidance for teaching music from the Romantic/Modern and Pre-Classical periods, with a focus on seamlessly integrating students' technical and musical growth. Each piece is analyzed from a pedagogical perspective, highlighting key concepts. The book provides clear, step-by-step instructions supported by videos and scores, on how to achieve specific goals by incorporating effective practice techniques. Additionally, readers can explore related volumes in the series that examine relevant topics such as registration and ornamentation practices.
Author : Emily I. Dolan,Alexander Rehding
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190637224
"With essays covering an array of topics including ancient Homeric texts, contemporary sound installations, violin mutes, birdsong, and cochlear implants, this volume reveals the richness of what it means to think and talk about timbre and the materiality of the experience of sound"--
Author : Elena Paradies D.M.
Publisher : Paradies eBooks
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This volume is the first of a five-volume series. It covers introductory materials that the teacher will need for the early period of teaching a new student. The volume explains the main principles of modern organ technique based on legato touch (Romantic and Contemporary periods) and early organ technique based on "Ordinary Touch" (Renaissance and Baroque periods). Each technique is demonstrated by videos and illustrated with examples from the organ literature.
Author : Shirley Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351556415
The tercentenary of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's death in 2004 stimulated a surge of activity on the part of performers and scholars, confirming the modern assessment of Charpentier (1643-1704) as one of the most important and inventive composers of the French Baroque. The present book provides a snapshot of Charpentier scholarship in the early years of the new century. Its 13 chapters illustrate not only the sheer variety of strands currently pursued, but also the way in which these strands frequently intertwine and generate the potential for future research. Between them, they examine facets of the composer's compositional language and process, aspects of his performance practice and notation, the contexts within which he worked, and the nature of his legacy. The appendix contains a transcription of the inventory of Charpentier's manuscripts prepared when their sale to the Royal Library was negotiated in 1726 - an invaluable research tool, as numerous chapters in the book demonstrate. The wide variety of topics covered here will appeal both to readers interested in Charpentier's music and to those with a broader interest in the music and culture of the French Baroque, including aspects of patronage, church and theatre. Far from treating his output in isolation, this book places it in the wider context alongside such composers as Lully, Lalande, Marais, Fran‘s Couperin and Rameau; it also views the composer in relation to his Italian training. In the process, the under-examined question of influence - who influenced Charpentier? whom did he influence? - repeatedly comes to the fore. The book's Foreword was written by H. Wiley Hitchcock shortly before he died. Hitchcock's own part in raising the profile of Charpentier and his music to the level of recognition which it now enjoys cannot be emphasized enough. Appropriately the volume is dedicated to his memory.
Author : George B. Stauffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197661208
In the obituary that appeared soon after his death, Johann Sebastian Bach was described as "the world-famous organist" and "the greatest organist...we have ever had." In Hamburg, Dresden, and other big cities, Bach dazzled audiences with his organ playing, performing passages with his feet that many thought impossible for the hands. One eyewitness declared that he had never seen anything like it. His extant organ works--more than 250 chorale settings and free pieces--are filled with bold, dramatic passages and fully independent pedal parts. They represent the most important body of music in the organ repertoire and the only genre that Bach turned to continuously throughout his life, from his earliest efforts as a teenager in Ohrdruf to his final deathbed revisions as a cantor in Leipzig. In this new survey, leading musicologist George B. Stauffer traces the evolution of Bach's organ works within the broad spectrum of his development as a composer. With detailed discussions of the individual pieces, the book shows how Bach initially drew on contemporary models from Germany and France before evolving a personal idiom based on the concertos of Antonio Vivaldi. In Leipzig, he went still further, synthesizing national and historical styles to produce cosmopolitan masterpieces that exude sophistication and elegance. Serving as a backdrop to this growth was the emergence of the Central German pre-Romantic organ, which inspired Bach to write pieces with unique chamber-music, choral, and orchestral qualities. Stauffer follows these developments step-by-step, showing how Bach's unending quest for novelty, innovation, and refinement resulted in organ works that continue to reward and awe listeners today.
Author : Alan Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107006669
The first major study to propose an analytical approach to Purcell's music beginning from contemporary compositional aims and techniques.
Author : Almonte C. HowellJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780813186825
Jean-Baptiste Lully is perhaps best known in the history of music as the founder of French opera. Although Italian-born himself, he created a form of opera so suited to French tastes and needs that it alone, among the attempts of various other nations at operatic forms of their own, was able to resist domination by Italian opera and to maintain its individual identity during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The impress he made upon French music was enormous, and it affected every musical medium of his day. Evidence of his influence in a field as remote from his own as the literature for the organ is seen in the nine pieces that make up this present collection. Despite their operatic origins, the Lully transcriptions should be useful to the present-day church organist, as the pieces have no secular associations for present-day listeners. The overtures make excellent preludes for festive services, and the marches are suitable both for processionals and postludes. For recital use, several of the pieces could be very successfully grouped together into a suite.
Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1534 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135924140
Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.
Author : Stephen Rose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108421072
Explores the meanings of the term 'author' for seventeenth-century German musicians, examining how compositions were made and used.
Author : Jeanice Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107009141
A fresh look at the career of Nadia Boulanger, among the most influential musical figures of the entire twentieth century.
Author : Douglas Bush,Richard Kassel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135947958
The Encyclopedia of Organ includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete A-Z reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world.