Proceedings of the International Lute Symposium, Utrecht 1986
Author : Louis Peter Grijp
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 38,7 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Lute
ISBN :
Author : Louis Peter Grijp
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 38,7 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Lute
ISBN :
Author : Jan W.J. Burgers
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 1443899178
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 : Stewart Carter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 2012-03-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253005280
Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance.
Author : Jeffery Kite-Powell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253013771
Revised and expanded since it first appeared in 1991, the guide features two new chapters on ornamentation and rehearsal techniques, as well as updated reference materials, internet resources, and other new material made available only in the last decade. The guide is comprised of focused chapters on performance practice issues such as vocal and choral music; various types of ensembles; profiles of specific instruments; instrumentation; performance practice issues; theory; dance; regional profiles of Renaissance music; and guidelines for directors. The format addresses the widest possible audience for early music, including amateur and professional performers, musicologists, theorists, and educators.
Author : Willem Elders
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Michael Fleming
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317147154
Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize Musical repertory of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace (1676) who says that ’Your Best Provision’ for playing such music is a chest of old English viols, and he names five early English viol makers than which ’there are no Better in the World’. Enlightened scholars and performers (both professional and amateur) who aim to understand and play this music require reliable historical information and need suitable viols, but so little is known about the instruments and their makers that we cannot specify appropriate instruments with much precision. Our ignorance cannot be remedied exclusively by the scrutiny or use of surviving antique viols because they are extremely rare, they are not accessible to performers and the information they embody is crucially compromised by degradation and alteration. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence including the surviving instruments, music composed for those instruments, and the documentary evidence surrounding the trade of instrument making, Fleming and Bryan draw significant conclusions about the changing nature and varieties of viol in early modern England.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Lute music
ISBN :
Author : Robert Muchembled
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521845491
This 2007 volume reveals how a first European identity was forged from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Cultural exchange played a central role in the elites' fashioning of self. The cultures they exchanged and often integrated with included palaces, dresses and jewellery but also gestures and dances.
Author : British Library. Document Supply Centre
Publisher :
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Conference proceedings
ISBN :
Author : Frank A. D'Accone
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0226133680
Siena, blessed with neither the aristocratic nor the ecclesiastical patronage enjoyed by music in other northern Italian centers like Florence, nevertheless attracted first-rate composers and performers from all over Europe. As Frank A. D'Accone shows in this scrupulously documented study, policies developed by the town to favor the common good formed the basis of Siena's ambitious musical programs. Based on decades of research in the town's archives, D'Accone's The Civic Muse brilliantly illuminates both the sacred and the secular aspects of more than three centuries of music and music-making in Siena. After detailing the history of music and liturgy at Siena's famous cathedral and of civic music at the Palazzo Pubblico, D'Accone describes the crucial role that music played in the daily life of the town, from public festivities for foreign dignitaries to private musical instruction. Putting Siena squarely on the Renaissance musical map, D'Accone's monumental study will interest both musicologists and historians of the Italian Renaissance.