Music and Language: The Rise of Western Music as Exemplified in Settings of the MAss - Rilegato

Georgiades, Thrysabulos

 
9780521233095: Music and Language: The Rise of Western Music as Exemplified in Settings of the MAss

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A study of the broader aspects of Western music with a focus on rhythm and language.

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Descrizione del libro

In a time of ever-increasing specialisation this work focuses on the broader aspects of Western music, seeking to view its history as a whole and to probe its relationship to other aspects of Western cultural thought. Of interest to all those concerned with the history of Western intellectual-cultural thought.

Contenuti

Preface; Translator's Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Antiquity and the Pre-Carolingian period; 3. The Carolingian period; 4. The high middle ages; 5. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; 6. Palestrina; 7. Monteverdi; 8. The German language and music; 9. Schutz; 10. Instrumental music and J. S. Bach; 11. The Viennese classical masters; 12. Stages of musical reality; 13. The Romantic era; 14. The present; 15. Music as history; Notes.

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9780521299022: Music and Language: The Rise of Western Music as Exemplified in Settings of the MAss

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ISBN 10:  0521299020 ISBN 13:  9780521299022
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009
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