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Catalogue of the King's Music Library, by William Barclay Squire ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

Catalogue of the King's Music Library, by William Barclay Squire ...

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1927
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Bach Choir: The First Hundred Years
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

The Bach Choir: The First Hundred Years

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This study of the Bach Choir provides a much-needed overview of one of the major choral societies in London. Dr Basil Keen examines the background that led to the formation of an ad hoc body to give the first performance in England of J.S. Bach's B minor Mass. The musical and organizational effects of a permanent choral society drawn from one social group are traced during the first twenty years, after such time the pressures of social change led to a complete review followed by a restructuring of the methods of recruitment and internal organization. The rebuilding of the choir at the opening of the twentieth century, the expansion of the repertoire, the upheaval resulting from the First Wor...

Phantasms of the Living
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 664

Phantasms of the Living

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1886
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"A large part of the material used in this book was sent to the authors as representatives of the Society for Psychical Research; and the book is published with the sanction of the council of that Society ... Mr. Myers is solely responsible for the Introduction, and for the Note on a suggested mode of psychical interaction ... Mr. Gurney is solely responsible for the remainder of the book ... the collection, examination, and appraisal of the evidence--has been a joint labour, of which Mr. Podmore has borne ... a share ..."--Preface.

Debating English Music in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Debating English Music in the Long Nineteenth Century

Situates the controversial narrative of 'The English Musical Renaissance' within its wider historical context.

A Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians, 1485-1714, Volumes I and II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1305

A Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians, 1485-1714, Volumes I and II

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-05-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Compiled by scholars with unrivalled knowledge of the sources, this dictionary provides biographies of all musicians and instrument makers employed by the English court from 1485-1714. A number of the musicians featured here have never previously received a dictionary entry. Coverage of these minor figures helps to flesh out the picture of musical life in the court in a way which individual studies of more major composers cannot. In addition to basic biographical details, entries feature information on: appointments; probate material; family background; heraldry; signatures and holograph documents; subscriptions to books; bibliographic references. A finding-list of variant names, details of the succession of court places assumed by musicians and an index of subjects and place names completes this comprehensive reference work.

Six Renaissance Men and Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Six Renaissance Men and Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-01-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The English Renaissance is frequently defined in the context of the Elizabethans and early-Stuarts, but here we focus on the early Renaissance, and the important cultural transitions of the late-medieval/early-Tudor period. In this innovative study, Elisabeth Salter reconstructs the lives and experiences of six men and women of the early Renaissance and leads us on a quest to reconstruct their lost cultural worlds. The six men and women are all figures from the margins of the royal courts during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII: Gilbert Banaster, present at the court of Henry VII in the guise of writer and musician; The Anonymous Witness, spectator to the marriage of Prince Arthur and ...

Music in Shakespearean Tragedy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Music in Shakespearean Tragedy

First published in 1963. When originally published this book was the first to treat at full length the contribution which music makes to Shakespeare's great tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. Here the playwright's practices are studied in conjunction with those of his contemporaries: Marlowe and Jonson, Marston and Chapman. From these comparative assessments there emerges the method that is peculiar to Shakespeare: the employment of song and instrumental music to a degree hitherto unknown, and their use as an integral part of the dramatic structure.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 558

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of current research into Purcell and the environment of Restoration music, with contributions from leading experts in the field. Seen from the perspective of modern, interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship, the companion allows the reader to develop a rounded view of the environment in which Purcell lived, the people with whom he worked, the social conditions that influenced his activities, and the ways in which the modern perception of him has been affected by reception of his music after his death. In this sense the contributions do not privilege the individual over the environment: rather...