The Vocal Serenata of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Author : Julianne Baird
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Opera
ISBN :
Author : Julianne Baird
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Opera
ISBN :
Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2006-08-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199796033
The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a significant period in the history of Western music. Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries , the second volume Richard Taruskin's monumental history, illuminates the explosion of musical creativity that occurred in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examining a wealth of topics, Taruskin looks at the elegant masques and consort music of Jacobean England, the Italian concerto style of Corelli and Vivaldi, and the progression from Baroque to Rococo to romantic style. Perhaps most important, he offers a fascinating account of the giants of this period: Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. Laced with brilliant observations, memorable musical analysis, and a panoramic sense of the interactions between history, culture, politics, art, literature, religion, and music, this book will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand this rich and diverse period.
Author : Michael Talbot
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780754657941
The contributors in this volume choose aspects of the cantata relevant to their special interests in order to say new things about the works, whether historical, analytical, bibliographical, discographical or performance-based. The prime focus is on Italian-born composers working between 1650 and 1750 and many key figures are considered, among them Tomaso Albinoni, Giovanni Bononcini, Giovanni Legrenzi, Benedetto Marcello, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alessandro Stradella, Leonardo Vinci and Antonio Vivaldi. The book aims to stimulate interest in, and to win converts to, this genre, which in its day equalled the instrumental sonata in importance, and in which more than a few composers invested a major part of their creativity.
Author : Michael Ewans
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 1904303358
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Author : Andrew Kearns
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0895795329
xv + 220 pp.
Author : Jennifer M. Pickering
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Author : Nigel Fortune
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521619288
This volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Dean's interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music. The first half of the book covers the period from the late seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. The second half of the book ranges over later opera: operacomique; Mendelssohn's operas; the influence of Wagner; the finales of Janácek's operas; and Britten's first two major operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.
Author : Andrew Kearns
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0895795337
xv + 216 pp.
Author : Rebecca S. Miller
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2024-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 0819501492
Every year, on a weekend before Christmas, the small Caribbean island of Carriacou, Grenada, holds its annual Parang Festival, featuring concerts, performances of local quadrille dance, Hosannah band (a cappella singing) competitions, and the climactic string band competition. Born in the years leading up to Grenada's 1979 Socialist Revolution, the Parang Festival today offers a vehicle for Carriacouans to articulate and assert a progressive understanding of local cultural identity as well as a regional, pan-Caribbean belonging. Rebecca S. Miller examines the varying impact that factors such as cultural ambivalence, globalization, and technology have had on the performance of Carriacou's folk and traditional music and dance forms. Using archival sources and current ethnography, she illuminates the enduring significance of the Parang Festival to illustrate the social and political history of Carriacou as well as this culture's contemporary process of modernization. The book includes a web link allowing the reader to listen to a variety of musical examples.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 24,33 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Music
ISBN :