The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music
Title | The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Maria Busse Berger |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1058 |
Release | 2015-07-16 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1316298299 |
Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics. Multidisciplinary studies of music and architecture, feasting, poetry, politics, liturgy, and religious devotion rub shoulders with studies of compositional techniques, musical notation, music manuscripts, and reception history. Generously illustrated with figures and examples, this volume paints a vibrant picture of musical life in a period characterized by extraordinary innovation and artistic achievement.
The Cambridge History of Medieval Music
Title | The Cambridge History of Medieval Music PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Everist |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2018-08-09 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1108577075 |
Spanning a millennium of musical history, this monumental volume brings together nearly forty leading authorities to survey the music of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. All of the major aspects of medieval music are considered, making use of the latest research and thinking to discuss everything from the earliest genres of chant, through the music of the liturgy, to the riches of the vernacular song of the trouvères and troubadours. Alongside this account of the core repertory of monophony, The Cambridge History of Medieval Music tells the story of the birth of polyphonic music, and studies the genres of organum, conductus, motet and polyphonic song. Key composers of the period are introduced, such as Leoninus, Perotinus, Adam de la Halle, Philippe de Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut, and other chapters examine topics ranging from musical theory and performance to institutions, culture and collections.
Ritual Meanings in the Fifteenth-Century Motet
Title | Ritual Meanings in the Fifteenth-Century Motet PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Michael Nosow |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2012-02-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521193478 |
The first large-scale study of how fifteenth-century motets were used across Western Europe, dispelling the mysteries surrounding these outstanding works.
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory
Title | The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Christensen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1033 |
Release | 2006-04-20 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1316025489 |
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical subject, the volume has been organized within a flexible framework. Some chapters are defined chronologically within a restricted historical domain, whilst others are defined conceptually and span longer historical periods. Together the thirty-one chapters present a synthetic overview of the fascinating and complex subject that is historical music theory. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies of the most important primary and secondary literature, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music
Title | The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music PDF eBook |
Author | Simon P. Keefe |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 816 |
Release | 2009-09-10 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521663199 |
The eighteenth century arguably boasts a more remarkable group of significant musical figures, and a more engaging combination of genres, styles and aesthetic orientations than any century before or since, yet huge swathes of its musical activity remain under-appreciated. This History provides a comprehensive survey of eighteenth-century music, examining little-known repertories, works and musical trends alongside more familiar ones. Rather than relying on temporal, periodic and composer-related phenomena to structure the volume, it is organized by genre; chapters are grouped according to the traditional distinctions of music for the church, music for the theatre and music for the concert room that conditioned so much thinking, activity and output in the eighteenth century. A valuable summation of current research in this area, the volume also encourages the readers to think of eighteenth-century music less in terms of overtly teleological developments than of interacting and mutually stimulating musical cultures and practices.
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music
Title | The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Carter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 636 |
Release | 2005-12-22 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521792738 |
First published in 2005, this title provides extensive knowledge on seventeenth-century music.
The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700
Title | The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700 PDF eBook |
Author | James Henderson Burns |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 818 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521477727 |
This book, first published in 1992, presents a comprehensive scholarly account of the development of European political thinking through the Renaissance and the reformation to the 'scientific revolution' and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. It is written by a highly distinguished team of contributors.