The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music provides a fascinating examination of the repertoire, institutions, performers, composers, and social and cultural world which created one of the most crucial and vibrant moments in western music history. The twelve contributors, all leading scholars in their fields, explore the new aspects of composition and performance which took root during this time: the cosmopolitan nature of music making; the emergence of new markets for musical activity at court, in the theatre, church, and academy, as well as domestically; and the proliferation of new musical styles and gestures and their language and meaning. Many chapters also relate the musical developments to broader cultural and conceptual issues of the age. The volume also contains a separate chronology and dictionary-style entries on individuals, places and institutions.
Tim Carter is the author of the Cambridge Opera Handbook on Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (1987), Jacopo Peri (1561-1633): his Life and Works (1989), Music in Late Renaissance and Early Baroque Italy (1992), and Monteverdi's Musical Theatre (2002). He has also published numerous journal articles and essays on music in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy; those to 1998 were reprinted in Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence and Monteverdi and his Contemporaries (both 2000). In 2001 he moved from Royal Holloway, University of London, to become David G. Frey Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. John Butt is Gardiner Professor of Music at the University of Glasgow. His book Playing With History: The Historical Approach to Music Performance (Cambridge, 2002) was the winner of the 2003 Dent Medal, and was shortlisted for the 2003 British Academy Book Prize. He is the author of Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque (Cambridge, 1994), Bach: Mass in B Minor (Cambridge Music Handbooks, 1991) and Bach Interpretation (Cambridge, 1990), and has edited the Cambridge Companion to Bach (1997).
Author: Tim Carter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Format: Hardback, 620 pages, 161mm x 235mm, 1129 g
Published: 2005, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
Genre: Music & Dance
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music provides a fascinating examination of the repertoire, institutions, performers, composers, and social and cultural world which created one of the most crucial and vibrant moments in western music history. The twelve contributors, all leading scholars in their fields, explore the new aspects of composition and performance which took root during this time: the cosmopolitan nature of music making; the emergence of new markets for musical activity at court, in the theatre, church, and academy, as well as domestically; and the proliferation of new musical styles and gestures and their language and meaning. Many chapters also relate the musical developments to broader cultural and conceptual issues of the age. The volume also contains a separate chronology and dictionary-style entries on individuals, places and institutions.
Tim Carter is the author of the Cambridge Opera Handbook on Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (1987), Jacopo Peri (1561-1633): his Life and Works (1989), Music in Late Renaissance and Early Baroque Italy (1992), and Monteverdi's Musical Theatre (2002). He has also published numerous journal articles and essays on music in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy; those to 1998 were reprinted in Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence and Monteverdi and his Contemporaries (both 2000). In 2001 he moved from Royal Holloway, University of London, to become David G. Frey Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. John Butt is Gardiner Professor of Music at the University of Glasgow. His book Playing With History: The Historical Approach to Music Performance (Cambridge, 2002) was the winner of the 2003 Dent Medal, and was shortlisted for the 2003 British Academy Book Prize. He is the author of Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque (Cambridge, 1994), Bach: Mass in B Minor (Cambridge Music Handbooks, 1991) and Bach Interpretation (Cambridge, 1990), and has edited the Cambridge Companion to Bach (1997).