History Of English Music

Author : Eric David Mackerness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134563388

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A Social History of English Music by Eric David Mackerness Pdf

First published in 2006. The social history of music first makes an appearance—even if only sporadically—in treatises which during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave some account of the manners and morals of specific periods, and of these socio-historical writings one of the most comprehensive is Voltaire's Siele de Louis XIV (1751). In this volume the author, without going over too much familiar ground, presents a view of English musical history from the Middle Ages.

Author : Henry Davey
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019576820

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History of English Music by Henry Davey Pdf

A survey of English music from the medieval period to the early twentieth century, examining the development of different genres, styles, and composers in their cultural and historical context. The book also explores the reception of English music in other countries, and the influence of foreign music on English composers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Henry Davey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Music
ISBN : OCLC:1142852215

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History of English Music by Henry Davey Pdf

Author : Ernest Ford
Publisher : Litres
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040839391

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A Short History of English Music by Ernest Ford Pdf

"A Short History of English Music" by Ernest Ford. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Andrew Gant
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781782830504

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O Sing unto the Lord by Andrew Gant Pdf

Andrew Gant's compelling account traces English church music from Anglo-Saxon origins to the present. It is a history of the music and of the people who made, sang and listened to it. It shows the role church music has played in ordinary lives and how it reflects those lives back to us. The author considers why church music remains so popular and frequently tops the classical charts and why the BBC's Choral Evensong remains the longest-running radio series ever. He shows how England's church music follows the contours of its history and is the soundtrack of its changing politics and culture, from the mysteries of the Mass to the elegant decorum of the Restoration anthem, from stern Puritanism to Victorian bombast, and thence to the fractured worlds of the twentieth century as heard in the music of Vaughan Williams and Britten. This is a book for everyone interested in the history of English music, culture and society.

Author : Henry Davey
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1076965547

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History of English Music by Henry Davey Pdf

The British musicologist Henry Davey (1853-1929) was a noted scholar of the manuscript sources of Tudor music. He published the first edition of History of English Music in 1895 with the aim of providing his fellow-musicians with the first clear scholarly account of the full range of English musical achievements. His main focus is the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which he considered the heyday of English music, and he claims that the earliest known free instrumental compositions, as well as the polyphonic style, originated in England during the fifteenth century. In Davey's view, these controversial findings were his most important contribution to general musical knowledge. His work was widely discussed in his own time, attracting both praise and aggressive criticism, and continues to be read with great critical interest today, not least because of its parallels with the socialist utopianism of Ruskin and Morris.

Author : Henry Davey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 1330460960

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History of English Music by Henry Davey Pdf

Excerpt from History of English Music A Few words concerning the origin of this book are necessary. It was already begun during an illness in 1892, and arrangements were made for its publication. But upon further investigation, especially of the early MSS., I perceived that the wealth of most valuable material still unexamined was far greater than I had suspected; so great, in fact, as to modify my previous opinions concerning English music in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. What I had previously written had largely to be rejected, and the whole plan of the work was altered; while three years' study has been necessary before I could let the book be printed. A variety of accidents unfortunately prevented a systematic comparison of every proof-sheet with the original sources of information, a test I had intended to apply; should any mistakes have arisen thereby, they will be duly published as they are discovered, and corrected in future editions. The main hindrance, in this and other respects, has, of course, been my living away from London and the other great repositories of MSS.; but I am able in consequence to have a clearer view of the condition of music in the whole country, of our defects and their causes, than I should probably have acquired had I been a London musician, when it would have been difficult or impossible for me to perceive the effects of centralisation upon our musical life. A minor but a very real hindrance has been the unsystematic indexing of many important publications. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Lisa Colton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317181156

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Angel Song: Medieval English Music in History by Lisa Colton Pdf

Although medieval English music has been relatively neglected in comparison with repertoire from France and Italy, there are few classical musicians today who have not listened to the thirteenth-century song ‘Sumer is icumen in’, or read of the achievements and fame of fifteenth-century composer John Dunstaple. Similarly, the identification of a distinctively English musical style (sometimes understood as the contenance angloise) has been made on numerous occasions by writers exploring the extent to which English ideas influenced polyphonic composition abroad. Angel song: Medieval English music in history examines the ways in which the standard narratives of English musical history have been crafted, from the Middle Ages to the present. Colton challenges the way in which the concept of a canon of English music has been built around a handful of pieces, composers and practices, each of which offers opportunities for a reappraisal of English musical and devotional cultures between 1250 and 1460.

Author : Eric David Mackerness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134563319

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A Social History of English Music by Eric David Mackerness Pdf

First published in 2006. The social history of music first makes an appearance—even if only sporadically—in treatises which during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave some account of the manners and morals of specific periods, and of these socio-historical writings one of the most comprehensive is Voltaire's Siele de Louis XIV (1751). In this volume the author, without going over too much familiar ground, presents a view of English musical history from the Middle Ages.

Author : Henry Davey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 0484360949

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History of English Music (Classic Reprint) by Henry Davey Pdf

Excerpt from History of English Music A Few words concerning the origin of this book are necessary. It was already begun during an illness in 1892, and arrangements were made for its publication. But upon further investigation, especially of the early MSS., I perceived that the wealth of most valuable material still unexamined was far greater than I had suspected; so great, in fact, as to modify my previous opinions concerning English music in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. What I had previously written had largely to be rejected, and the whole plan of the work was altered; while three years' study has been necessary before I could let the book be printed. A variety of accidents unfortunately prevented a systematic comparison of every proof-sheet with the original sources of information, a test I had intended to apply; should any mistakes have arisen thereby, they will be duly published as they are discovered, and corrected in future editions. The main hindrance, in this and other respects, has, of course, been my living away from London and the other great repositories of MSS.; but I am able in consequence to have a clearer view of the condition of music in the whole country, of our defects and their causes, than I should probably have acquired had I been a London musician, when it would have been difficult or impossible for me to perceive the effects of centralisation upon our musical life. A minor but a very real hindrance has been the unsystematic indexing of many important publications. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Erik Routley,Lionel Dakers
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Church music
ISBN : 9780264674407

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A Short History of English Church Music by Erik Routley,Lionel Dakers Pdf

Ranging from the medieval period to the present day, this is a brief history of church music as it has developed through the English tradition. Described as a quick journey, it provides a broad historical survey rather than an in-depth study of the subject, and also predicts likely future trends.

Author : Emil Naumann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSD:31822011368164

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The History of Music by Emil Naumann Pdf

Author : Emma Hornby,David Nicholas Maw
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843835356

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Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell by Emma Hornby,David Nicholas Maw Pdf

Articles on English music, from the medieval period to the present day, centred on four of the major areas of scholarly enquiry. The major themes of the essays in this collection reflect the work of the distinguished scholar John Caldwell, professor of music at Oxford University and a composer in his own right. There is a strong focus on early music, with contributions considering the medieval carol, sources for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century harpsichord music, and the transmission of fifteenth-century English music to the Continent; but they range right up to the twentieth century, with an examination of music in Oxford. All are concerned in one way or another with themes which recur in Professor Caldwell's scholarship: sources; style; performance; and historiography. Contributors: SALLY HARPER, DAVID HILEY, EMMA HORNBY, HARRY JOHNSTONE, MARGARET BENT, DAVID MAW, MATTHIAS RANGE, REINHARD STROHM, PETER WRIGHT, MAGNUS WILLIAMSON, JOHN HARPER, SIMON MCVEIGH, CHRISTOPHER PAGE, OWEN REES, SUSAN WOLLENBERG, JOHN ARTHUR SMITH, BENNETT ZON, DAVID MAW. To subscribe to the Tabula Gratulatoria for this volume, CLICK HERE

Author : Ernest Walker
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon P
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015007991428

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A History of Music in England by Ernest Walker Pdf

Author : Tim Rayborn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786496341

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A New English Music by Tim Rayborn Pdf

The turn of the 20th century was a time of great change in Britain. The empire saw its global influence waning and its traditional social structures challenged. There was a growing weariness of industrialism and a desire to rediscover tradition and the roots of English heritage. A new interest in English folk song and dance inspired art music, which many believed was seeing a renaissance after a period of stagnation since the 18th century. This book focuses on the lives of seven composers--Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Ernest Moeran, George Butterworth, Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock), Gerald Finzi and Percy Grainger--whose work was influenced by folk songs and early music. Each chapter provides an historical background and tells the fascinating story of a musical life.