Concert Music, 1630-1750
Title | Concert Music, 1630-1750 PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Abraham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 832 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780193163065 |
This volume offers an overall view of a period which witnessed a proliferation of music in all genres, highlighting the musical landmarks and masterpieces of the age. It discusses the ode and oratorio in England, secular song in Europe, and the whole range of baroque instrumental music from keyboard music and the solo sonata to the orchestral suite and concerto grosso.
New Oxford History of Music: Concert music, 1630-1750
Title | New Oxford History of Music: Concert music, 1630-1750 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 832 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Choral Music
Title | Choral Music PDF eBook |
Author | James Michael Floyd |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 2019-05-23 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0429012632 |
Choral Music: A Research and Information Guide, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive guide to the literature on choral music in the Western tradition. Clearly annotated bibliographic entries guide readers to resources on key topics within choral music, individual choral composers, regional and sacred choral traditions, choral techniques, choral music education, genre studies, and more, providing an essential reference for researchers and practitioners. Covering monographs, bibliographies, selected dissertations, reference works, journals, electronic databases, and websites, this research guide makes it easy to locate relevant sources. Comprehensive indices of authors, titles, and subjects keep the volume user-friendly. The new edition has been brought up to date with entries encompassing the latest scholarship, and updated references and annotations throughout, capturing the continued growth of literature on choral music since the publication of the second edition.
J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument
Title | J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Stinson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 019991723X |
In J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument, author Russell Stinson delves into various unexplored aspects of the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Drawing on previous research and new archival sources, he sheds light on many of the most mysterious aspects of these masterpieces, and their reception, and shows how they have remained a fixture of Western culture for nearly three hundred years.
G. F. Handel
Title | G. F. Handel PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ann Parker |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 2013-10-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 113678358X |
Baroque composer George Frideric Handel easily ranks among the world's greatest composers. The first edition of this research guide on Handel appeared in 1988; since that time a great deal of scholarly work has been published on Handel and related areas, including the discovery of a hitherto unknown work. New general resources such as the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), electronic resources such as the RISM libretto catalogue online, and the study of Handel's continuing popularity as evidenced by the new Handel House Museum in London and Handel practice around the world (e.g., Messiah and millennium celebrations in Tonga, singalong Messiahs etc.) are incorporated into this revised edition of the Handel guide.
Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages
Title | Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Reinhard Strohm |
Publisher | |
Pages | 522 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780198162056 |
This entirely new volume of NOHM takes account of developments in late-medieval music scholarship, along with significant changes in the performance practice of the late-medieval repertory, witnessed during the latter half of the 20th century.
2000 Lectures and Memoirs
Title | 2000 Lectures and Memoirs PDF eBook |
Author | British Academy |
Publisher | Proceedings of the British Aca |
Pages | 736 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780197262597 |
Volume 111 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 British Academy lectures and 17 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.