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Thomas Tomkins: The Last Elizabethan

Author : Anthony Boden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351539175
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Tomkins: The Last Elizabethan written by Anthony Boden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656), a major figure of the Golden Age of British music, was arguably the greatest of all Welsh-born composers. Living through one of the most revolutionary periods in British history, his professional life was spent in the service of the Crown and the Church at both the Chapel Royal and Worcester Cathedral. Surviving the Civil War, the suppression of the music of the English Church, the closure of the Chapel Royal, the destruction of his organ at Worcester and the devastation of the city, Tomkins was able to find the strength and inspiration to continue composing secular music of fine quality. Much of Tomkins's output has survived, including his collection of music for the Anglican rite, Musica Deo Sacra, published posthumously in 1668. His work embraced both sacred and secular vocal music, pieces for keyboard and for viol consort, thereby proving him to be one of the most versatile figures of English Renaissance music. The first part of the book provides an absorbing biography of Tomkins, setting his life into fascinating historical context. The second and third parts include major essays on Tomkins by Denis Stevens, Bernard Rose, Peter James and David Evans, all authorities on the music of the period with each providing perceptive insights into Tomkins's music. The result is a successful piece of collective work that properly places Tomkins and his achievements in his time and enables readers to reassess him properly in relation to his elders and contemporaries. Tomkins has still not reached the 'household name' status of his great teacher, William Byrd, or of his close friend and colleague, Orlando Gibbons, but he is undoubtedly worthy of much greater recognition. The book complements the increasing number of live performances and recordings of Tomkins's music, both sacred and secular, and such a comprehensive account of the man and his work should appeal to early music scholars, performers and music lovers alike.

David Starkey's Music and Monarchy

Author : David Starkey
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448141095
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book David Starkey's Music and Monarchy written by David Starkey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the kings and queens of England, a trumpet fanfare or crash of cymbals could be as vital a weapon as a cannon. Showcasing a monarch’s power, prestige and taste, music has been the lifeblood of many a royal dynasty. From sacred choral works to soaring symphonies, Music and Monarchy looks at how England’s character was shaped by its music. To David Starkey and Katie Greening, works like Handel’s Water Music and Tallis’s Mass for Four Voices were more than entertainment – they were pieces signalling political intent, wealth and ambition. Starkey and Greening examine England’s most iconic musical works to demonstrate how political power has been a part of musical composition for centuries. Many of our current musical motifs of nationhood, whether it’s the Last Night of the Proms or football terraces erupting in song, have their origins in the way the crown has shaped the national soundtrack. Published to coincide with a major BBC series, Music and Monarchy is not a book about music. It is a history of England written in music, from our leading royal historian.

Syrene Soundes

Author : Eleanor Chan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197748171
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Syrene Soundes written by Eleanor Chan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visual, material, and literary cultures of the English Renaissance are littered with objects that depict, utilise, or respond to the metaphor of musical harmony--yet harmony in this period relied on a certain amount of carefully mannered dissonance. Using visual and literary sources alongside musical works, author Eleanor Chan explores the rise of the false relation, a variety of dissonance that, despite being officially frowned upon by contemporary theoretical treatises, became characteristic of English vocal music between ca. 1550 and 1630.

British Royal and State Funerals

Author : Matthias Range
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270926
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book British Royal and State Funerals written by Matthias Range and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth study of the ceremonial and music performed at British royal and state funerals over the past 400 years.

The Viola da Gamba Society Index of Manuscripts Containing Consort Music

Author : Robert Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351144839
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Viola da Gamba Society Index of Manuscripts Containing Consort Music written by Robert Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of The Viola da Gamba Society Index of Manuscripts Containing Consort Music includes manuscripts associated with John Browne (Clerk of the Parliaments), Philip Falle (prebendary at Durham), Sir Gabriel Roberts, John St Barbe of Broadlands, the Withy family of Worcester and Oxford and an anonymous late-seventeenth century scribe. As well as a detailed inventory of every manuscript (with anonymous works identified where possible), the descriptions include information on date, size, binding, paper, rastra, watermarks, collations, scripts, inscriptions and provenance, together with bibliographical references. Brief notes on the owners and copyists are provided. Of particular importance is the inclusion of facsimiles of all hands.

Both from the Ears and Mind

Author : Linda Phyllis Austern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022670467X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Both from the Ears and Mind written by Linda Phyllis Austern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both from the Ears and Mind offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England. Linda Phyllis Austern brings to life the kinds of educated writings and debates that surrounded musical performance, and the remarkable ways in which English people understood music to inform other endeavors, from astrology and self-care to divinity and poetics. Music was considered both art and science, and discussions of music and musical terminology provided points of contact between otherwise discrete fields of human learning. This book demonstrates how knowledge of music permitted individuals to both reveal and conceal membership in specific social, intellectual, and ideological communities. Attending to materials that go beyond music’s conventional limits, these chapters probe the role of music in commonplace books, health-maintenance and marriage manuals, rhetorical and theological treatises, and mathematical dictionaries. Ultimately, Austern illustrates how music was an indispensable frame of reference that became central to the fabric of life during a time of tremendous intellectual, social, and technological change.

Music and Ceremonial at British Coronations

Author : Matthias Range
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139560999
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Music and Ceremonial at British Coronations written by Matthias Range and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coronations are the grandest of all state occasions. This is the first comprehensive in-depth study of the music that was performed at British coronations from 1603 to the present, encompassing the sixteen coronations that have taken place in Westminster Abbey and the last two Scottish coronations. Range describes how music played a crucial role at the coronations and how the practical requirements of the ceremonial proceedings affected its structure and performance. The programme of music at each coronation is reconstructed, accompanied by a wealth of transcriptions of newly discovered primary source material, revealing findings that lead to fresh conclusions about performance practices. The coronation ceremonies are placed in their historical context, including the political background and the concept of invented traditions. The study is an invaluable resource not only for musicologists and historians, but also for performers, providing a fascinating insight into the greatest of all Royal events.

Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650

Author : Sally Harper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557262
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650 written by Sally Harper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music in Wales has long been a neglected area. Scholars have been deterred both by the need for a knowledge of the Welsh language, and by the fact that an oral tradition in Wales persisted far later than in other parts of Britain, resulting in a limited number of sources with conventional notation. Sally Harper provides the first serious study of Welsh music before 1650 and draws on a wide range of sources in Welsh, Latin and English to illuminate early musical practice. This book challenges and refutes two widely held assumptions - that music in Wales before 1650 is impoverished and elusive, and that the extant sources are too obscure and fragmentary to warrant serious study. Harper demonstrates that there is a far wider body of source material than is generally realized, comprising liturgical manuscripts, archival materials, chronicles and retrospective histories, inventories of pieces and players, vernacular poetry and treatises. This book examines three principal areas: the unique tradition of cerdd dant (literally 'the music of the string') for harp and crwth; the Latin liturgy in Wales and its embellishment, and 'Anglicised' sacred and secular materials from c.1580, which show Welsh music mirroring English practice. Taken together, the primary material presented in this book bears witness to a flourishing and distinctive musical tradition of considerable cultural significance, aspects of which have an important impact on wider musical practice beyond Wales.

A History of Welsh Music

Author : Trevor Herbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009041673
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A History of Welsh Music written by Trevor Herbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From early medieval bards to the bands of the 'Cool Cymru' era, this book looks at Welsh musical practices and traditions, the forces that have influenced and directed them, and the ways in which the idea of Wales as a 'musical nation' has been formed and embedded in popular consciousness in Wales and beyond. Beginning with early medieval descriptions of musical life in Wales, the book provides both an overarching study of Welsh music history and detailed consideration of the ideas, beliefs, practices and institutions that shaped it. Topics include the eisteddfod, the church and the chapel, the influence of the Welsh language and Welsh cultural traditions, the scholarship of the Celtic Revival and the folk song movement, the impacts of industrialization and digitization, and exposure to broader trends in popular culture, including commercial popular music and sport.

Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music

Author : Joseph P. Swain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538151626
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music written by Joseph P. Swain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Library Journal Best Reference of 2023 - "Bravo! An invaluable source for scholars and concertgoers.” - Library Journal In the history of the Western musical tradition, the Baroque period traditionally dates from the turn of the 17th century to 1750. The beginning of the period is marked by Italian experiments in composition that attempted to create a new kind of secular musical art based upon principles of Greek drama, quickly leading to the invention of opera. The ending is marked by the death of Johann Sebastian Bach in 1750 and the completion of George Frideric Handel’s last English oratorio, Jephtha, the following year. The Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on composers, instruments, cities, and technical terms. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about baroque music.

The Three Choirs Festival

Author : Anthony Boden
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783272090
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Three Choirs Festival written by Anthony Boden and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Plate Section 1 -- Plate Section 2 -- Plate Section 3 -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Cathedral Organists -- 1 Origins -- 2 A Fortuitous and Friendly Proposal -- 3 A Numerous Appearance of Gentry -- 4 'The Musick of my Admiration Handel' -- 5 The Gentlemen and the Players -- 6 Avoiding Shipwreck -- 7 Prima voce -- 8 Favourites and Flops -- 9 Sacred and Profane -- 10 Froissart -- 11 The Unreasonable Man -- 12 The Dream -- 13 Beyond these Voices -- 14 An Essentially English Institution -- 15 The Elgar Festivals -- 16 Dona nobis pacem -- 17 Recovery -- 18 Association -- 19 A New Epoch -- 20 Jubilee -- 21 Theme with Variations -- 22 Houses of the Mind -- 23 'A Gold-Plated Orchestra' -- 24 A New Millennium -- 25 Reorganisation -- 26 An Invitation to the Palace -- Appendix: Three Choirs Festival Timeline -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Music in Medieval Europe

Author : Terence Bailey
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754652397
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Music in Medieval Europe written by Terence Bailey and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most recent findings of twenty of the foremost European and North American researchers into the music of the Middle Ages. The chronological scope of their topics is wide, from the ninth to the fifteenth century. The findings presented in this book will be of interest to those engaged by music and the liturgy, active researchers and students. All the papers are carefully and extensively documented by references to medieval sources.

Historical Dictionary of English Music

Author : Charles Edward McGuire
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810879514
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of English Music written by Charles Edward McGuire and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of English Music seeks to identify and briefly annotate a wide range of subjects relating to English musical culture, largely from the early 15th century through 1958, dates that reflect the coalescence of an identifiable English style in the early Renaissance and the death of the iconic Ralph Vaughan Williams in the mid-20th century. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about English music.

The Early Music Yearbook

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Music Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reflections on the Puritan Revolution

Author : A.L. Rowse
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100087026X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on the Puritan Revolution written by A.L. Rowse and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (1986) examines the damage done by the Puritans during the English Civil War, and the enormous artistic losses England suffered from their activities. The Puritans smashed stained glass, monuments, sculpture, brasses in cathedrals and churches; they destroyed organs, dispersed the choirs and the music. They sold the King’s art collections, pictures, statues, plate, gems and jewels abroad, and broke up the Coronation regalia. They closed down the theatres and ended Caroline poetry. The greatest composer and most promising scientist of the age were among the many lives lost; and this all besides the ruin of palaces, castles and mansions.

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature

Author : David Hopkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199219818
Total Pages : 749 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature written by David Hopkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present volume [3] is the first to appear of the five that will comprise The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (henceforth OHCREL). Each volume of OHCREL will have its own editor or team of editors"--Preface.

An Index to Articles Published in The Etude Magazine, 1883-1957, Part 2

Author : Pamela Richardson Dennis
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780895797186
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book An Index to Articles Published in The Etude Magazine, 1883-1957, Part 2 written by Pamela Richardson Dennis and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation: The Index is published in two physical volumes and sold as a set for $250.00. As America's geography and societal demands expanded, the topics in The Etude magazine (first published in 1883) took on such important issues as women in music; immigration; transportation; Native American and African American composers and their music; World War I and II; public schools; new technologies (sound recordings, radio, and television); and modern music (jazz, gospel, blues, early 20th century composers) in addition to regular book reviews, teaching advice, interviews, biographies, and advertisements. Though a valued source particularly for private music teachers, with the de-emphasis on the professional elite and the decline in salon music, the magazine ceased publication in 1957. This Index to the articles in The Etude serves as a companion to E. Douglas Bomberger's 2004 publication on the music in The Etude. Published a little over fifty years after the final issue reached the public, this Index chronicles vocal and instrumental technique, composer biographies, position openings, department store orchestras, the design of a successful music studio, how to play an accordion, recital programs in music schools, and much more. The Index is a valuable tool for research, particularly in the music culture of American in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With titles of these articles available, the doors are now open for further research in the years to come.