The Lute In Britain

Author : Matthew Spring
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195188381

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The Lute in Britain by Matthew Spring Pdf

"Spring focuses on the lute in Britain, but also includes two chapters devoted to continental developments: one on the transition from medieval to renaissance, the other on renaissance to baroque, and the lute in Britain is never treated in isolation. Six chapters cover all aspects of the lute's history and its music in England from 1285 to well into the eighteenth century, whilst other chapters cover the instrument's early history, the lute in consort, lute song accompaniment, the theorbo, and the lute in Scotland."--Jacket.

Author : Jan W.J. Burgers,Tim Crawford,Matthew Spring
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781443899178

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The Lute in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century by Jan W.J. Burgers,Tim Crawford,Matthew Spring Pdf

The lute played a central role in the rich musical culture of the seventeenth-century ‘Golden Age’ of the Dutch Republic. Like the piano in the nineteenth century, the lute was not just a popular instrument for solo music making, but was also used widely in ensembles and to accompany singers. Though mainly an instrument of the social elite and the aristocracy, it was also played by the numerous and prosperous burgher class. The first part of the book deals with psalm settings for the lute; the way professional lutenists coped with the harsh rules of the free market; Leiden as a veritable international lute centre; and the different types of lutes that can be reconstructed on the basis of the Dutch paintings of the period. The second part of the book is dedicated to Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687), the well-known poet and statesman, and avid player of, and composer for, the lute. The third and final section deals with Dutch sources of lute music, printed as well as those in manuscript. Taken together, this volume provides a broad and many-layered overview of the lute in the seventeenth century. Collectively, the articles will further the reader’s understanding of the lute in its social and cultural context, not only in the Netherlands, but also on the wider European canvas.

Author : Jennifer Linhart Wood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030122249

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Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel by Jennifer Linhart Wood Pdf

Sounds are a vital dimension of transcultural encounters in the early modern period. Using the concept of the soundwave as a vibratory, uncanny, and transformative force, Jennifer Linhart Wood examines how sounds of foreign otherness are experienced and interpreted in cross-cultural interactions around the globe. Many of these same sounds are staged in the sonic laboratory of the English theater: rattles were shaken at Whitehall Palace and in Brazil; bells jingled in an English masque and in the New World; the Dallam organ resounded at Topkapı Palace in Istanbul and at King’s College, Cambridge; and the drum thundered across India and throughout London theaters. This book offers a new way to conceptualize intercultural contact by arguing that sounds of otherness enmesh bodies and objects in assemblages formed by sonic events, calibrating foreign otherness with the familiar self on the same frequency of vibration.

Author : Linda Marie Zaerr
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843843238

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Performance and the Middle English Romance by Linda Marie Zaerr Pdf

An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner. Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves. Linda Marie Zaerr is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State University.

Author : Matthew Spring
Publisher : University of Glasgow Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 0852618468

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The Balcarres Lute Book by Matthew Spring Pdf

This two volume set includes a facsimile and transcription of an important 17th century source of lute music.

Author : Christopher Marsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107610248

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Music and Society in Early Modern England by Christopher Marsh Pdf

Comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey of English popular music during the early modern period. Accompanied by specially commissioned recordings.

Author : Christopher Page
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107108363

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The Guitar in Tudor England by Christopher Page Pdf

This book reveals the most popular instrument in the world as it was in the age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare.

Author : Linda Phyllis Austern,Candace Bailey,Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253024978

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Beyond Boundaries by Linda Phyllis Austern,Candace Bailey,Amanda Eubanks Winkler Pdf

English music studies often apply rigid classifications to musical materials, their uses, their consumers, and performers. The contributors to this volume argue that some performers and manuscripts from the early modern era defy conventional categorization as "amateur" or "professional," "native" or "foreign." These leading scholars explore the circulation of music and performers in early modern England, reconsidering previously held ideas about the boundaries between locations of musical performance and practice.

Author : Thomas Mace,Jean Jacquot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Church music
ISBN : LCCN:67083554

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Musick's monument by Thomas Mace,Jean Jacquot Pdf

Author : Ernst Gottlieb Baron
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1094710660

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Study of the Lute by Ernst Gottlieb Baron Pdf

E. G. Baron's Study of the Lute (Untersuchung des Instruments der Lauten) published in 1727, is one of the most comprehensive and important lute treatises in the 300 year history of the instrument. It contains much information that is unique to it, and deals with subjects that can be found in no other source. It is a mine of information concerning the history of the instrument, lute makers, composers, players, technique and performance practices of the day. At last, this work has been translated into delightful English by Douglas A. Smith, retaining much of the flamboyant flavor of the original. A long preface gives the background of the work, its era, and the life of Baron. The present edition improves the value of the original, since explanatory footnotes, appendices, and an index have been added. Also, the voluminous Latin and Greek passages have been translated. The book is both delightful and informative.

Author : James Porter
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 3039109480

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Defining Strains by James Porter Pdf

This volume is the result of new research into such key figures as the composers Tobias Hume, William Kinloch, Patrick MacCrimmon and John Forbes; it looks at the important manuscripts, imported French and Italian music, burgh and ceremonial music, secular songs and their texts, and the psalm singing that dominated public life.

Author : David Golby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317220725

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Instrumental Teaching in Nineteenth-Century Britain by David Golby Pdf

First published in 2004, this book demonstrates that while Britain produced many fewer instrumental virtuosi than its foreign neighbours, there developed a more serious and widespread interest in the cultivation of music throughout the nineteenth century. Taking a predominantly historical approach, the book moves from a discussion of general developments and issues to a detailed examination of violin pedagogy, method and content, which indicates society’s influence on cultural trends and informs the discussion of other instruments and institutional training that follows. In the first study of its kind, it examines in depth the inextricable links between trends in society, education and levels of achievement. It also extends beyond profession and ‘art’ music to amateur and ‘popular’ spheres. A useful chronology of developments in nineteenth-century British music education is also included. This book will be of interest to those studying the history of instrumental teaching and Victorian music.

Author : Roger Dan Derby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Lute
ISBN : NYPL:33433031430394

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The Lute in England and Scotland Before 1550 by Roger Dan Derby Pdf

Author : Jane Pickeringe,British Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSC:32106006947763

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Jane Pickeringe's lute book by Jane Pickeringe,British Library Pdf

Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : English literature
ISBN : OXFORD:590472539

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Handbook to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain by William Carew Hazlitt Pdf