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The Cambridge History of Musical Performance

The Cambridge History of Musical Performance
Author: Colin Lawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1066
Release: 2012-02-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316184420

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The intricacies and challenges of musical performance have recently attracted the attention of writers and scholars to a greater extent than ever before. Research into the performer's experience has begun to explore such areas as practice techniques, performance anxiety and memorisation, as well as many other professional issues. Historical performance practice has been the subject of lively debate way beyond academic circles, mirroring its high profile in the recording studio and the concert hall. Reflecting the strong ongoing interest in the role of performers and performance, this History brings together research from leading scholars and historians and, importantly, features contributions from accomplished performers, whose practical experiences give the volume a unique vitality. Moving the focus away from the composers and onto the musicians responsible for bringing the music to life, this History presents a fresh, integrated and innovative perspective on performance history and practice, from the earliest times to today.


The Historical Performance of Music

The Historical Performance of Music
Author: Colin Lawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1999-11-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521627382

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A 1999 overview of historical performance, surveying issues and suggesting future developments.


The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music
Author: Tim Carter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2005-12-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521792738

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First published in 2005, this title provides extensive knowledge on seventeenth-century music.


The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music

The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music
Author: Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1427
Release: 2015-07-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316298299

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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

The Cambridge History of Medieval Music
Author: Mark Everist
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-08-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108577075

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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.


The Cambridge History of World Music

The Cambridge History of World Music
Author: Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 943
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316025667

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Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational historical moments – in Europe, Oceania, China, India, the Muslim world, North and South America – in search of the connections provided by a truly world music. Historically, world music emerged from ritual and religion, labor and life-cycles, which occupy chapters on Native American musicians, religious practices in India and Indonesia, and nationalism in Argentina and Portugal. The contributors critically examine music in cultural encounter and conflict, and as the critical core of scientific theories from the Arabic Middle Ages through the Enlightenment to postmodernism. Overall, the book contains the histories of the music of diverse cultures, which increasingly become the folk, popular and classical music of our own era.


Playing with History

Playing with History
Author: John Butt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2002-05-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521013581

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This challenging 2002 study examines and ultimately defends the case for historically informed musical performance.


The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory
Author: Thomas Christensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1033
Release: 2006-04-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316025489

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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.


Musical Performance

Musical Performance
Author: John Rink
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2002-12-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521788625

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The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music

The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music
Author: Simon P. Keefe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 816
Release: 2009-09-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521663199

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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.