Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin
Author: Jean Philippe Rameau
Publisher: Alan R. Liss
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780845020135
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The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord
Author: Mark Kroll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-03
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1107156076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.
French Suites, Bwv 812-817
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Publisher: Music Sales
Published: 1992-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788759853573
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Music Sales America). The French Suites were written in 1722. But it was not until Bach biographer Johann Forkel prepared an edition in the early nineteenth century that the pieces became known by the collective title French . It is true that Bach gave each of the dance movements a French title, but it was Forkel who declared that they were 'written in the French taste, with an emphasis on tunefulness and consonant harmony rather than German structure and counterpoint'.
Music for Piano
Author: F. E. Kirby
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-09-21
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 149308285X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historical survey focuses on music for piano solo but also includes important compositions for piano duet and two pianos. Scholarly yet readable, it covers the entire repertoire from the Renaissance to the late 20th century and incorporates a bibliography of 1 100 sources for further study.
Perspectives on Early Keyboard Music and Revival in the Twentieth Century
Author: Rachelle Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1351254944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twentieth-century revival of early music unfolded in two successive movements rooted respectively in nineteenth-century antiquarianism and in rediscovery of the value of original instruments. The present volume is a collection of insights reflecting the principal concerns of the second of those revivals, focusing on early keyboards, and beginning in the 1950s. The volume and its authors acknowledge Canadian harpsichordist Kenneth Gilbert (b. 1931) as one of this revival’s leaders. The content reflects international research on early keyboard music, sources, instruments, theory, editing, and discography. Considerations that echo throughout the book are the problematics of source attributions, progressive institutionalization of early music, historical instruments as agents of artistic change and education, antecedents and networks of the revival seen as a social phenomenon, the impact of historical performance and the quest for understanding style and genre. The chapters cover historical performance practice, source studies, edition, theory and form, and instrument curating and building. Among their authors are prominent figures in performance, music history, editing, instrument building and restoration, and theory, some of whom engaged with the early keyboard revival as it was happening.
Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque
Author: James R. Anthony
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-02-09
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521352635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honours the distinguished French baroque scholar James R. Anthony. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV, served as the principal architect of what would become known as the French style of music in the baroque era. The style he created strongly influenced the great musical figures in England (Purcell and Handel) and Germany (Bach and Telemann), but Lully's music itself has received little attention. Recently, through the efforts of scholars and musicians concerned with the performance practices of Lully's time, Lully's own music has begun to come alive in performance and recording. These essays, all by important baroque specialists, cover significant aspects of Lully's life and works and the French tradition he influenced. They constitute the first post-war collection of studies centred on Lully and form a fitting tribute to Professor Anthony whose own French baroque music provided a stimulus for the work of an emerging generation of scholars.
Performing Baroque Music
Author: Mary Cyr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1351554646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKListeners, performers, students and teachers will find here the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. Scores for eleven works, many reproduced in facsimile to illustrate the conventions of 17th and 18th century notation, are included for close study. Readers will find new material on continuo playing, as well as extensive treatment of singing and French music. The book is also a concise guide to reference materials in the field of baroque performance practice with extensive annotated bibliographies of modern and baroque sources that guide the reader toward further study. First published by Ashgate (at that time known as Scolar Press) in 1992 and having been out of print for some years, this title is now available as a print on demand title.
Programme Music in the Last Four Centuries
Author: Frederick Niecks
Publisher: Ardent Media
Published: 2009-08
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1907. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. IN GERMANY. The writing of the present chapter cannot be called an inspiring task. Without Wagner's sovereign contempt for the music of his time, and Tchaikovsky's belief in Germany's complete exhaustion, one may yet be unable to grow enthusiastic over the theme. The productivity during the period with which we are concerned has been enormous. But how about the really valuable outcome of it? In the latter part of the 19th century the question was often asked: What remains if you remove from the living German composers Wagner and Brahms? And then there were ever so many people who, while heartily admitting the greatness of one of the two, were not so sure of the other--not to mention those who were all for the one and would have none whatever of the other. Now, ' this exclusive way of looking at men and things is not only unfair, it is absolutely foolish. The men of genius leave room for the men of talent; and the masters en grand for the masters en miniature. To be sure for some time past Germany has not been abounding in musical genius of the first or even second order. But if there has been a dearth of powerful original creativeness and of strikingly outstanding individuality, there has been also a goodly provision of artistic ability well deserving our respect and gratitude, ability displaying itself not merely in technical skill, but often also in imaginativeness, sensibility, and poetic charm. The great bulk of crudities, futilities, and vacuities need not trouble us: they are not peculiar to any one period. One could classify composers into (1) such as write only absolute music, and are uninfluenced by and even averse to the programmatic tendency; (2) such as write programme music, but only in the classical manner and forms; (3) such as go only ...
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Author: Cuthbert Girdlestone
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 0486492230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Definitive full-scale biography and critical study of great 18th-century composer Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764). Full chapter treatments of great operas and ballets as well as his chamber music, cantatas and motets, and minor works. Rameau's life and musical times, acoustic and harmonic theories, link to Lully, influence on Gluck and other interesting topics are also included. Numerous useful appendixes, indexes and an extensive bibliography. Over 300 musical examples"--Provided by publisher.
University Musical Encyclopedia: University dictionary of music and musicians
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13:
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