The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

Author: Don Michael Randel

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 1048

ISBN-13: 9780674372993

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Biographaical dictionary emphisizes classicaland art music; also gives ample attention to the classics as well as Jazz, Blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages.

English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century
English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century

Author: Gary F. Waller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1317895576

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Explores the poetry of the Renaissance, from Dunbar in the late 15th century to the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne in the early 17th. The book offers more than the wealth of literature discussed: it is a pioneering work in its own right, bringing the insights of contemporary literary and cultural theory to an overview of the period.

The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft
The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft

Author: Ross W. Duffin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1351542141

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Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both 1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of the Whole Booke of Psalmes (1621) and his original sacred works. A theorist as well as a composer and editor, Ravenscroft wrote two treatises on music theory: the well-known A Briefe Discourse (1614), and 'A Treatise of Practicall Musicke' (c.1607), which remains in manuscript. This is the first book to bring together both theoretical works by this important Jacobean musician and to provide critical studies and transcriptions of these treatises. A Briefe Discourse furthermore introduces an anthology of music by Ravenscroft, John Bennet, and Ravenscroft's mentor, Edward Pearce, illustrating some of the precepts in the treatise. The critical discussion provided by Duffin will help explain Ravenscroft's complicated consideration of mensuration, in particular.

Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles
Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles

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Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1472503015

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Investigation of the Latin poetry produced by British poets from the sixteenth century onwards affords an indispensible insight into a dominant strand in the intellectual, cultural and educational life of the British Isles during this period. At this time, the composition of Latin poetry was a regular feature of school curricula and a popular leisure-time activity of the educated elite. Such examination also sheds light on the poetic principles and practice of major British poets (such as Campion, Cowley, Herbert and Milton) who penned a large quantity of neo-Latin verse in addition to their better-known vernacular works.