The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music (The Cambridge History of Music) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521792738 ISBN 13: 9780521792738

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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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Book Description:

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music provides a complete examination of the repertory, institutions, performers, composers, and social and cultural world which created one of the greatest moments in music history. The writers explore new aspects of composition and performance which took root during this time: the cosmopolitan nature of music making; emergence of markets for musical activity; and the development of new musical styles and gestures and their language and meaning. The volume also contains a separate chronology and dictionary-style entries on individuals, places and institutions.

About the Author:

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 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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521792738
• ISBN 13: 9780521792738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 620
• Editor: Carter Tim, Butt John