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GebondenEngels9780521873918
12-7-2007
In The Singing of the New World Gary Tomlinson offers histories of ancient music long since silent: the songs of the Indians that Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521863032
11-10-2007
We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521845298
6-1-2005
Monteverdi's Unruly Women examines the composer's madrigals and music dramas for what they can tell us about the musical and cultural world of singing and the voice in early modern Italy. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521890663
24-3-2008
This book explores the role of music in an early fourteenth-century French manuscript (BN, fr. 146). The musical repertories found in this manuscript, particularly those interpolated into the Old French satire, the Roman de Fauvel, are frequently used to illuminate the wider history of French medieval music. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521807388
25-4-2002
A characteristic feature of Wagnerian and post-Wagnerian opera is the tendency to link scenes with numerous and often surprisingly lengthy orchestral interludes, frequently performed with the curtain closed. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521899567
26-3-2009
The idea that there was a time when men and women lived in perfect harmony with nature and with themselves, though rooted in classical antiquity, was one of the most fertile products of the Renaissance literary and artistic imagination. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521803465
14-11-2002
In Bach's Germany musical counterpoint was an art involving much more than the sophisticated use of advanced compositional techniques. A range of theological, cultural, social and political meanings attached themselves to the use of complex procedures such as canon and double counterpoint. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521036580
14-5-2007
Throughout the twentieth century, musicians frequently incorporated bits of works by other musicians into their own compositions and performances. When a musician borrows from a piece, he or she draws upon not only a melody but also the cultural associations of the original piece. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521634472
24-4-2000
This is the first book to discuss in detail how rap music is put together musically and how it contributes to the formation of cultural identities for both artists and audiences. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521120265
24-9-2009
Monteverdi's Unruly Women examines the composer's madrigals and music dramas for what they can tell us about the musical and cultural world of singing and the voice in early modern Italy. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521108720
9-4-2009
The greatest virtuoso career in history - that of Franz Liszt - has been told in countless biographies. But what does that career look like when viewed from the perspective of European cultural history? Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521027533
2-11-2006
A crucial category across all the arts in the late eighteenth century, the picturesque has lost its currency in modern musical criticism, in spite of its rich potential to shed new light on the fantastical elements of instrumental music in general and the genre of the free fantasia in particular. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521028622
2-11-2006
The search for the origins of language was one of the most pressing philosophical issues of the eighteenth century. What has often escaped notice, however, is the fact that music figures prominently in this search. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521813716
7-10-2002
This book explores the role of music in an early fourteenth-century French manuscript (BN, fr. 146). The musical repertories found in this manuscript, particularly those interpolated into the Old French satire, the Roman de Fauvel, are frequently used to illuminate the wider history of French medieval music. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521178341
3-3-2011
We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521632683
27-4-2000
This is the first book to discuss in detail how rap music is put together musically and how it contributes to the formation of cultural identities for both artists and audiences. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521110174
30-4-2009
In The Singing of the New World Gary Tomlinson offers histories of ancient music long since silent: the songs of the Indians that Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521825092
17-4-2003
Throughout the twentieth century, musicians frequently incorporated bits of works by other musicians into their own compositions and performances. When a musician borrows from a piece, he or she draws upon not only a melody but also the cultural associations of the original piece. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521866057
27-3-2008
Olivia A. Bloechl reconceives the history of French and English music from the sixteenth through to the eighteenth century from the perspective of colonial history. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521096362
11-1-2009
Generally acknowledged as the most important German musicologist of his age, Hugo Riemann (1849–1919) shaped the ideas of generations of music scholars, not least because his work coincided with the institutionalisation of academic musicology around the turn of the last century. Meer