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Author: Simon Trezise
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-19
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0521877946
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.
Author: Simon Trezise
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-19
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1316239616
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →France has a long and rich music history that has had a far-reaching impact upon music and cultures around the world. This accessible Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the music of France. With chapters on a range of music genres, internationally renowned authors survey music-making from the early middle ages to the present day. The first part provides a complete chronological history structured around key historical events. The second part considers opera and ballet and their institutions and works, and the third part explores traditional and popular music. In the final part, contributors analyse five themes and topics, including the early church and its institutions, manuscript sources, the musical aesthetics of the Siècle des Lumières, and music at the court during the ancien régime. Illustrated with photographs and music examples, this book will be essential reading for both students and music lovers.
Author: Benedict Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-08-26
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1108475434
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.
Author: Nicholas Hewitt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-09-11
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780521794657
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →France entered the twentieth century as a powerful European and colonial nation. In the course of the century, her role changed dramatically: in the first fifty years two World Wars and economic decline removed its status as a world power, whilst the immediate post-war era was marked by wars of independence in its colonies. Yet at the same time, in the second half of the century, France entered a period of unprecedented growth and social transformation. Throughout the century and into the new millennium France retained its former international reputation as a centre for cultural excellence and innovation and its culture, together with that of the Francophone world, reflected the increased richness and diversity of the period. This 2003 Companion explores this vibrant culture, and includes chapters on history, language, literature, thought, theatre, architecture, visual culture, film and music, and discuss the contributions of popular culture, Francophone culture, minorities and women.
Author: James Parsons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-07
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780521804714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre. In essays by eminent scholars, this Companion places the Lied in its full context - at once musical, literary, and cultural - with chapters devoted to focal composers as well as important issues, such as the way in which the Lied influenced other musical genres, its use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of German music and poetry from the late 1730s to the present and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.
Author: Daniel Brewer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1107021480
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Containing essays by leading scholars representing a wide range of disciplines, this Companion offers new perspectives on the French Enlightenment. Clearly organized and easy to use, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of a period that marks the beginning of modern intellectual culture and political life.
Author: William A. Everett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-21
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 1107114748
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An expanded and updated edition of this acclaimed, wide-ranging survey of musical theatre in New York, London, and elsewhere.
Author: Mark Everist
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-03
Total Pages: 982
ISBN-13: 1107495121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the emergence of plainsong to the end of the fourteenth century, this Companion covers all the key aspects of medieval music. Divided into three main sections, the book first of all discusses repertory, styles and techniques - the key areas of traditional music histories; next taking a topographical view of the subject - from Italy, German-speaking lands, and the Iberian Peninsula; and concludes with chapters on such issues as liturgy, vernacular poetry and reception. Rather than presenting merely a chronological view of the history of medieval music, the volume instead focuses on technical and cultural aspects of the subject. Over nineteen informative chapters, fifteen world-leading scholars give a perspective on the music of the Middle Ages that will serve as a point of orientation for the informed listener and reader, and is a must-have guide for anyone with an interest in listening to and understanding medieval music.
Author: Simon Trezise
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-06-19
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1139826050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Often considered the father of twentieth-century music, Debussy was a visionary whose influence is still felt. This book offers a wide-ranging series of essays on Debussy the man, the musician and composer. It contains insights into his character, his relationship to his Parisian environment and his musical works across all genres, with challenging views on the roles of nature and eroticism in his life and music. His music is considered through the characteristic themes of sonority, rhythm, tonality and form, with closing chapters considering the performance and reception of his music in the first years of the new century and our view of Debussy today as a major force in Western culture. This comprehensive view of Debussy is written by a team of specialists for students and informed music lovers.
Author: John Butt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-06-26
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1107493773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Cambridge Companion to Bach, first published in 1997, goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late twentieth-century perspective on J. S. Bach the man and composer. The book is divided into three parts. Part One is concerned with the historical context, the society, beliefs and the world-view of Bach's age. The second part discusses the music and Bach's compositional style, while Part Three considers Bach's influence and the performance and reception of his music through the succeeding generations. This Companion benefits from the insights and research of some of the most distinguished Bach scholars, and from it the reader will gain a notion of the diversity of current thought on this great composer.
