A comprehensive and fascinating study of the overall creative output of Johann Sebastian Bach, capturing the essence of his art. In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize-finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading...Loe edasi...
Donald Burrows, Helen Coffey, John Greenacombe, Anthony Hicks
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107080249)
The life and career of George Frideric Handel, one of the most frequently performed Baroque composers, are thoroughly documented in a wide variety of contemporary sources. This multi-volume publication, the most up-to-date, fully annotated collection...Loe edasi...
This book presents a social history of the violin in Australia from 1788 to 1914, exploring its pivotal role in colonial society and influence on local music-making and culture. It provides scholars with new insights into how musical instruments lik...Loe edasi...
This Element explores the similarities between Wagners early aesthetic writings and Delsartes Cours desthétique appliquée. It also details the rise of François Delsarte (18111871) as a celebrated teacher of aesthetics and interpreter of Glucks...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009608770)
This Element explores the similarities between Wagners early aesthetic writings and Delsartes Cours desthétique appliquée. It also details the rise of François Delsarte (18111871) as a celebrated teacher of aesthetics and interpreter of Glucks...Loe edasi...
Authorship is a pertinent issue for historical musicology and musicians more widely.The discovery of new sources and methodologies has also opened up opportunities for reassessing specific authorship problems. This book aims to build on what has a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789048564132)
Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony delves into the central role of music among the early modern sciences by focusing on the work of the French polymath Marin Mersenne (1588–1648). Although now regarded more as an art than a science,...Loe edasi...
This Element describes the history of the Neapolitan Cappella Reale in the second half of the eighteenth century. It is based on primary sources, reconstructing the entire personnel of the ensemble, recovering unstudied contractual agreements, offeri...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009551083)
The most prestigious musical ensemble of early-modern Naples remained the Royal Chapel or Cappella Reale di Palazzo. Conceived to serve directly the ruling authority of the capital city – whether the viceroy (Spanish or Austrian) or monarchs (Carlo d...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Dec-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197690628)
This book offers the first detailed reception history of adaptations of Johann Sebastian Bachs Goldberg Variations from 1800-2020. By focusing on ways the piece has been arranged, transcribed, and reworked, or quoted in in film, dance, lite...Loe edasi...
Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across...Loe edasi...
This book, the first to look at Avison’s music in depth, examines the influences on Avison and the circumstances around the composition of his music. It draws heavily upon his important treatise, An Essay on Musical Expression, and other wr...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1924, and authored by a renowned pianist and musicologist, this book is a comprehensive study of the history and evolution of pianoforte music from its origins in the early 18th century to modern times. The book begins wit...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1970 this collection of essays by a renowned international musicologist is both imaginative in scope and authoritative in scholarship. The works of such famous composers as Joseph Haydn, Handel, J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach ar...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1963 and with a foreword by Yehudi Menuhin, this book begins with a study of the historical scene and the conditions under which Bach and his player colleagues lived, wrote and worked. It discusses the instruments then in u...Loe edasi...
When this volume was originally published in 1954 it was the first complete history of the Bach family from the 16th Century miller Veit to Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst (1759-1845), Johann Sebastian’s grandson. When this volu...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1967, in this book the author delves deeply into the fascinating field of Bach’s music and the reasons for his ‘borrowing’, and adaptation within his oeuvre. This book, scrupulously uncontroversial in its manner, contains e...Loe edasi...
When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.S. Bach was the first important work on the composer in nearly a generation. When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.S. Bach was the first important work o...Loe edasi...
This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), an...Loe edasi...
Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social, and spatial cont...Loe edasi...
