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Author : Peter Williams
Release : 2001-09-27
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Bach: The Goldberg Variations by : Peter Williams
Download or read book Bach: The Goldberg Variations written by Peter Williams. This book was released on 2001-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many listeners and players are fascinated by Bach's Goldberg Variations. In this wideranging and searching study, Professor Williams, one of the leading Bach scholars of our time, helps them probe its depths and understand its uniqueness. He considers the work's historical origins, especially in relation to all Bach's Clavierübung volumes and late keyboard works, its musical agenda and its formal shape, and discusses significant performance issues. In the course of the book he poses a number of key questions. Why should such a work be written? Does the work have both a conceptual and a perceptual shape? What other music is likely to have influenced the Goldberg and to what extent is it trying to be encyclopedic? What is the canonic vocabulary? How have contemporaries or musicians from Beethoven to the present day seen this work and, above all, how has its mysterious beauty been created?
Author : Thomas Augustine Arne
Release : 1800
Genre : Operas
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Book Synopsis The Soldier Tir'd by : Thomas Augustine Arne
Download or read book The Soldier Tir'd written by Thomas Augustine Arne. This book was released on 1800. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Rosen
Release : 1988
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Sonata Forms by : Charles Rosen
Download or read book Sonata Forms written by Charles Rosen. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nobody writes better about music .... again and again, unerring insight into just the features that make the music special and fine."--The New York Review of Books
Author : Gary Tomlinson
Release : 1993
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Music in Renaissance Magic by : Gary Tomlinson
Download or read book Music in Renaissance Magic written by Gary Tomlinson. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a form of universal knowledge through renewed interest in two ancient themes: the Pythagorean and Platonic "harmony of the celestial spheres" and the legendary effects of the music of bards like Orpheus, Arion, and David. In this climate, Renaissance philosophers drew many new and provocative connections between music and the occult sciences. In Music in Renaissance Magic, Gary Tomlinson describes some of these connections and offers a fresh view of the development of early modern thought in Italy. Raising issues essential to postmodern historiography—issues of cultural distance and our relationship to the others who inhabit our constructions of the past —Tomlinson provides a rich store of ideas for students of early modern culture, for musicologists, and for historians of philosophy, science, and religion. "A scholarly step toward a goal that many composers have aimed for: to rescue the idea of New Age Music—that music can promote spiritual well-being—from the New Ageists who have reduced it to a level of sonic wallpaper."—Kyle Gann, Village Voice "An exemplary piece of musical and intellectual history, of interest to all students of the Renaissance as well as musicologists. . . . The author deserves congratulations for introducing this new approach to the study of Renaissance music."—Peter Burke, NOTES "Gary Tomlinson's Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others examines the 'otherness' of magical cosmology. . . . [A] passionate, eloquently melancholy, and important book."—Anne Lake Prescott, Studies in English Literature
