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The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music

Tim Carter, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
John Butt, University of Glasgow
November 2014
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    Contributors explore new aspects of composition and performance in this comprehensive examination of the repertory, institutions, performers, composers, and social and cultural world of one of the greatest moments in music history. They consider the cosmopolitan nature of music making; emergence of markets for musical activity; and development of new musical styles and gestures. The work also contains a separate chronology and dictionary-style entries on individuals, places and institutions.

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    • Comprehensive coverage of seventeenth-century music by experts in the field
    • A rich multidisciplinary approach that relates music of this era to a large number of cultural currents
    • Contains a separate chronology and dictionary-style entries on individuals, places and institutions

    Reviews & endorsements

    "Each of the essays delivers on the book's promise of a strong emphasis on the institutions, cultures, and politics of the age." -- Choice

    "The editors...ahould be commended for constructing such a thorough and such an interesting work. I most highly recommend this volume to all musicologists, students, general historians and all persons interested in the development of music. It is a must for all libraries." -- American Reference Books Annual

    "This History contains an incredible amount of information concerning all aspects of music in that period." --Opera Journal

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    Product details

    November 2014
    Paperback
    9781107681057
    614 pages
    227 × 152 × 27 mm
    0.98kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Notes on contributors
    • Editor's preface
    • 1. Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque Tim Carter
    • 2. The seventeenth-century musical 'work' John Butt
    • 3. Music in the marketplace Stephen Rose
    • 4. Music in new worlds Victor Anand Coelho
    • 5. Music and the arts Barbara Russano Hanning
    • 6. Music and the sciences Penelope Gouk
    • 7. The search for musical meaning Tim Carter
    • 8. Power and display: music in court theatre Lois Rosow
    • 9. Mask and illusion: Italian opera after 1637 Tim Carter
    • 10. The church triumphant: music in the liturgy Noel O'Regan
    • 11. Devotion, piety and commemoration: sacred songs and oratorios Robert Kendrick
    • 12. Image and eloquence: secular song Margaret Murata
    • 13. Fantasy and craft: the solo instrumentalist Alexander Silbiger
    • 14. Form and gesture: canzona, sonata and concerto Gregory Barnett
    • Appendices Stephen Rose
    • I. Chronology
    • II. Places and Institutions
    • III. Personalia
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • Tim Carter, John Butt, Stephen Rose, Victor Anand Coelho, Barbara Russano Hanning, Penelope Gouk, Lois Rosow, Noel O'Regan, Robert Kendrick, Margaret Murata, Alexander Silbiger, Gregory Barnett

    • Editors
    • Tim Carter , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

      Tim Carter is the author of the Cambridge Opera Handbook on Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (1987), Jacopo Peri (1561–1633): His Life and Works (1989), Music in Late Renaissance and Early Baroque Italy (1992) and Monteverdi's Musical Theatre (2002). He has also published numerous journal articles and essays on music in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy; those to 1998 were reprinted in Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence and Monteverdi and his Contemporaries (both 2000). In 2001 he moved from Royal Holloway, University of London, to become David G. Frey Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

    • John Butt , University of Glasgow

      John Butt is Gardiner Professor of Music at the University of Glasgow. His book Playing With History: The Historical Approach to Music Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2002) was the winner of the 2003 Dent Medal, and was shortlisted for the 2003 British Academy Book Prize. He is the author of Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque (Cambridge University Press, 1994), Bach: Mass in B Minor (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and Bach Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 1990), and edited The Cambridge Companion to Bach (Cambridge University Press, 1997).