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Author: Rev. Thomas Jones (B. A.)
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Published: 1864
Total Pages: 110
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Burrows
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1268
ISBN-13: 9780198166542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Harris (1709-80) was an author of philosophical treatises and an enthusiastic amateur musician who directed the concerts and music festivals at Salisbury for nearly fifty years. His family and social circle had close connections with London's music-making: his brother was a witness toHandel's will, and his correspondents sent him lively reports on all aspects of musical life in the capital-opera, oratorio, concerts, but also about the leading performers, music copyists, and instrument makers. In 1761 Harris became a member of Parliament and thereafter divided his time betweenLondon and Salisbury. His letters and diaries provide an unrivalled record of concert- and theatre-going in London, including exchanges of letters with David Garrick about a production at Drury Lane. As his children grew up an engaging family correspondence emerged. We learn of his daughters'involvement in concerts and amateur theatrical productions; his son, who pursued a diplomatic career, reported on operas, concerts, and plays in the court of Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great. Now, for the first time, it is possible to enjoy in full the lively first-hand descriptions fromHarris's family papers, which contribute fascinating insights into contemporary eighteenth-century musical and theatrical life.
Author: Rachel Cowgill
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780754631606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe period 1700-1900, roughly from Purcell to Elgar, has traditionally been seen as a dark age in British musical history, while research into British music of the period has tended to concentrate on London. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that by 1750 Britain had a highly distinctive musical culture, in terms of its reach, the way it was organised, and its size, richness and quality. This is the first book to concentrate specifically on musical life in the provinces, bringing together new archival research and offering a fresh perspective on British music of the period.
Author: Peter Holman
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1843835746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew research throws light on the history of the viol after Purcell, including its revival in the late eighteenth century through Charles Frederick Abel.
Author: Dr Rachelle Taylor
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-01-28
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1472412001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Philips (c.1560-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting musical, social, religious and political networks linking him with some of the key international players in these spheres. Despite the undeniable quality of his music, Philips does not fit easily into an overarching, progressive view of music history in which developments taking place in centres judged by historians to be of importance are given precedence over developments elsewhere, which are dismissed as peripheral. These principal loci of musical development are given prominence over secondary ones because of their perceived significance in terms of later music. However, a consideration of the networks in which Philips was involved suggests that he was anything but at the periphery of the musical, cultural, religious and political life of his day. In this book, Philips’s life and music serve as a touchstone for a discussion of various kinds of network in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The study of networks enriches our appreciation and understanding of musicians and the context in which they worked. The wider implication of this approach is a constructive challenge to orthodox historiographies of Western art music in the Early Modern Period.
Author: Rebecca Herissone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 1107289556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusical Creativity in Restoration England is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to creating music in late seventeenth-century England. Understanding creativity during this period is particularly challenging because many of our basic assumptions about composition - such as concepts of originality, inspiration and genius - were not yet fully developed. In adopting a new methodology that takes into account the historical contexts in which sources were produced, Rebecca Herissone challenges current assumptions about compositional processes and offers new interpretations of the relationships between notation, performance, improvisation and musical memory. She uncovers a creative culture that was predominantly communal, and reveals several distinct approaches to composition, determined not by individuals, but by the practical function of the music. Herissone's new and original interpretations pose a fundamental challenge to our preconceptions about what it meant to be a composer in the seventeenth century and raise broader questions about the interpretation of early modern notation.
Author: Nicholas Temperley
Publisher: Borthwick Publications
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780900701443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roz Southey
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780754650973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe north-east of England in the Eighteenth century was a region where many different kinds of musical activity thrived and where a wide range of documentation survives. Such activities included concert-giving, teaching, tuning and composition, as well as music in the theatre and in church. Drawing upon a rich selection of source material, Roz Southey examines the impulses behind such activities and the meanings that local people found inherent in them.
Author: Charles Burney
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Published: 1785
Total Pages: 280
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