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Author : Fiona Kisby
Release : 2001-04-19
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Music and Musicians in Renaissance Cities and Towns by : Fiona Kisby
Download or read book Music and Musicians in Renaissance Cities and Towns written by Fiona Kisby. This book was released on 2001-04-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines musical culture in the towns and cities of Renaissance Europe and the New World.
Author : Jessie Ann Owens
Release : 1997
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts by : Jessie Ann Owens
Download or read book Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts written by Jessie Ann Owens. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A festschrift prepared for the occasion of musicologist Lewis Lockwood's 65th birthday. The volume's 27 contributions, written by Lockwood's students and American colleagues, cover topics including tonal color in Dufay; notes on a Josquin motet and its sources; the Florentine madrigal, 1540-60; and a model for a changing aesthetic in the chansons of Loyset Compere. An appendix lists Lockwood's publications on Renaissance music.
Author : Lewis Lockwood
Release : 2009-05-04
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505 by : Lewis Lockwood
Download or read book Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505 written by Lewis Lockwood. This book was released on 2009-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive documentary and archival research, Music in Renaissance Ferrara is a documentary history of music for one of the most important city-states of the Italian Renaissance. Lockwood shows how patrons and musicians created a musical center over the course of the fifteenth-century, tracing the growth of music and musical life in rich detail. It also sheds new light on the careers of such important composers as Dufay, Martini, Obrecht, and Josquin Desprez. This paperback edition features a new preface that re-introduces the book and reflects on its contribution to our modern knowledge of music in the culture of the Italian Renaissance.
Author : Richard Sherr
Release : 2019-06-04
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 453/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Music and Musicians in Renaissance Rome and Other Courts by : Richard Sherr
Download or read book Music and Musicians in Renaissance Rome and Other Courts written by Richard Sherr. This book was released on 2019-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, the essays that follow have been selected from the author’s writings to explore musical institutions in 15th and 16th century Italy with a detailed focus on the papal choir, but with additional comments on Mantua (Mantova), Florence and France. Much of the material which formed the basis of those essays was largely drawn from archives. Richard Sherr explores diverse areas including the Medici coat of arms in a motet for Leo X, performance practice in the papal chapel during the 16th century, the publications of Guglielmo Gonzaga, Lorenzo de’ Medici as a patron of music and homosexuality in late sixteenth-century Italy.
Author : David C. Price
Release : 1981-02-05
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Patrons and Musicians of the English Renaissance by : David C. Price
Download or read book Patrons and Musicians of the English Renaissance written by David C. Price. This book was released on 1981-02-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the secular music of the late Renaissance period primarily through families of varying importance.
