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Author : Philip Brett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520247581
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Author : Kevin Joel Berland,Jan Kirsten Gilliam,Kenneth A. Lockridge
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807839119
William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into the world of a Virginia gentleman. This book joins Byrd's Diary, Secret Diary, and other writings in securing his reputation as one of the most interesting men in colonial America. Edited and presented here for the first time, Byrd's commonplace book is a collection of moral wit and wisdom gleaned from reading and conversation. The nearly six hundred entries range in tone from hope to despair, trust to dissimulation, and reflect on issues as varied as science, religion, women, Alexander the Great, and the perils of love. A ten-part introduction presents an overview of Byrd's life and addresses such topics as his education and habits of reading and his endeavors to understand himself sexually, temperamentally, and religiously, as well as the history and cultural function of commonplacing. Extensive annotations discuss the sources, background, and significance of the entries.
Author : John Harley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317011460
In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997), in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context. He provides new information about Byrd's youthful musical training, and reveals how in his adult life his music emerged from a series of overlapping family, business and social networks. These networks and Byrd's navigation within and between them are examined, as are the lives of a number of the individuals comprising them.
Author : John Alexander Fuller-Maitland,William Barclay Squire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Harpsichord music
ISBN : UCLA:L0069698934
Author : John Harley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351536943
This is the first comprehensive study of William Byrds life (1540-1623) and works to appear for sixty years, and fully takes into consideration recent scholarship. The biographical section includes many newly discovered facts about Byrd and his family, while in the chapters dealing with his music an attempt is made for the first time to outline the chronology of all his compositions. The book begins with a detailed account of Byrd's life, based on a completely fresh examination of original documents, which are quoted extensively. Several previously known documents have now been identified as being in Byrds hand, and some fresh holographs have been discovered. A number of questions such as his parentage and date of birth have been conclusively settled. The book continues with a survey of Byrds music which pays particular attention to its chronological development, and links it where possible to the events and background of his life. A series of appendices includes additional texts of important documents, and a summary catalogue of works. A bibliography and index complete the book. Besides musical illustrations there is a series of plates illustrating documents and places associated with Byrd.
Author : William Byrd
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469606934
Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover
Author : Roger Bowers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780415875592
This book surveys the most significant published materials relating to William Byrd. It presents a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of his play as well as source queries and analysis of historical performances of the play.
Author : Richard Turbet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000143584
This book surveys the most significant published materials relating to William Byrd. It presents a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of his play as well as source queries and analysis of historical performances of the play.
Author : Richard Turbet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780415943017
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Joseph Kerman,Professor of Music Joseph Kerman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520040333
In this, the first of a three-volume study of Byrd's complete output, under the general title The Music of William Byrd, the author essays a first full-scale historical and critical assessment of Byrd's sacred music to Latin words - one of the great glories of the Elizabethan Age. Each of the approximately 175 compositions is considered, at least briefly, with fuller appreciation accorded to such masterpieces as Emendemus in Melius, Tristitia et anxietas, Iusorum animae, Ave verum corpus, the lamentations and the three famous masses. There are more than sixty musical examples, some of considerable length. In critical prose that slights neither technicalities nor the intense emotional qualities of his subject matter, the author sheds fresh and often unexpected illumination on Byrd's musical rhetoric and on his powerful, endlessly inventive musical structures. Re-examining the known facts of Byrd's life in relation to the patronage and politics of the time, the author boldly argues that while the impetus behind Byrd's early motets was primarily traditionalist and technical, that behind his Cantiones sacrae motets of the 1580s was essentially political: they were covert laments and protests on behalf of the embattled recusant community.
Author : Mr John Harley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409494089
In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997), in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context. He provides new information about Byrd's youthful musical training, and reveals how in his adult life his music emerged from a series of overlapping family, business and social networks. These networks and Byrd's navigation within and between them are examined, as are the lives of a number of the individuals comprising them.
Author : William Byrd
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486171425
A smaller version of the harpsichord, the virginal enjoyed wide popularity during the 16th and 17th centuries. Based upon a 1591 manuscript, this collection features 42 pieces in modern notation.
Author : Margaret Beck Pritchard,Virginia Lascara Sites
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0879350881
An 18th century copperplate illustration, discovered in Oxford in 1929, was used to guide the restoration and reconstruction of several Williamsburg buildings. This information was appreciated but a discovery was made when more copperplates which came to light in 1986 were linked to the 1929 Oxford copperplate. This book pieces together the mystery of when, how, and why these copperplates were made. The authors link these illustrations to texts written (and to texts now lost) by one of the most prominent Virginians of this period, William Byrd II. Byrd (1674-1744) was a prominent plantation-owner, author, romantic scoundrel, and politician who is generally seen as the founder of the city of Richmond.
Author : William Byrd
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 080782612X
William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for hi
Author : Kenneth A. Lockridge
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814750896
"A brilliant . . . analysis of the fragile hegemony and identities of colonial Virginia's elite men. . . . On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage compellingly illuminates the ragged edge where masculinity and colonial identity meet. . . . [the book] will undoubtedly send Jefferson scholars scurrying back to their notes. . . . Most significant, by being among the first to tackle the subject of masculinity in early America, Lockridge forces colonial scholars to reexamine the lives of men they thought they already knew too well." —William and Mary Quarterly Two of the greatest of Virginia gentlemen, William Byrd II and Thomas Jefferson, each kept a commonplace book--in effect, a journal where men were to collect wisdom in the form of anecdotes and quotations from their readings with a sense of detachment and scholarship. Writing in these books, each assembled a prolonged series of observations laden with fear and hatred of women. Combining ignorance with myth and misogyny, Byrd's and Jefferson's books reveal their deep ambivalence about women, telling of women's lascivious nature and The Female Creed and invoking the fallible, repulsive, and implicitly corruptible female body as a central metaphor for all tales of social and political corruption. Were these private outbursts meaningless and isolated incidents, attributable primarily to individual pathology, or are they written revelations of the forces working on these men to maintain patriarchal control? Their hatred for women draws upon a kind of misogynistic reserve found in the continental and English intellectual traditions, but it also twists and recontextualizes less misogynistic excerpts to intensified effect. From this interplay of intellectual traditions and the circumstances of each man's life and later behavior arises the possibility one or more specific politics of misogyny is at work here. Kenneth Lockridge's work, replete with excerpts from the books themselves, leads us through these texts, exploring the structures, contexts, and significance of these writings in the wider historical context of gender and power. His book convincingly illustrates the ferocity of early American patriarchal rage; its various meanings, however suggestively explored here, must remain contestable.