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The Madrigal
The Madrigal: A Research and Information Guide is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarship on virtually all aspects of madrigal composition, production, and consumption. It contains 1,237 entries for items in English, French, German, and Italian. Scholars, students, teachers, librarians, and performers now have access to this rich literature in a single volume.
Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy
In this volume the author looks at the rise of a cultivated audience whose skill involved listening rather than playing or singing, in the early 17th century.
Queen's Apprentice
This study seeks to examine a number of themes relating to the roles of the women's court of the central European Habsburgs. These include its role in helping consolidate their holdings in central Europe and the Holy Roman Empire and structure their relations with the rest of Europe.
The Piano
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons
“Badura-Skoda addresses the place of the piano in the eighteenth century from the perspective of a scholar and performer” (Eighteenth-Century Music). In the late seventeenth century, Italian musician and inventor Bartolomeo Cristofori developed a new musical instrument—his cembalo che fa il piano e forte, which allowed keyboard players flexible dynamic gradation. This innovation, which came to be known as the hammer-harpsichord or fortepiano grand, was slow to catch on in musical circles. However, as renowned piano historian Eva Badura-Skoda demonstrates, the instrument inspired new keyboard techniques and performance practices and was eagerly adopted by virtuosos of the age, including Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Clementi, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Presenting a rich array of archival evidence, Badura-Skoda traces the construction and use of the fortepiano grand across the musical cultures of eighteenth-century Europe, providing a valuable resource for music historians, organologists, and performers. “Badura-Skoda has written a remarkable volume, the result of a lifetime of scholarly research and investigation. . . . Essential.” —Choice
Christoph Willibald Gluck – Gluck und das Musiktheater im Wandel
Christoph Willibald Gluck war zweifellos eine der zentralen Persönlichkeiten der Musik- und Theaterkultur des 18. Jahrhunderts. Mit dem untrüglichen Instinkt des geborenen Theatermannes erkannte er die Zeichen eines markanten Wandels in den Bühnenkünsten und deutete sie in seinem Sinne. Ziel des vorliegenden Buches ist es, dem interessierten Musik- und Opernliebhaber den Komponisten Gluck und seine künstlerischen Ideen im Kontext einer Musiktheaterszene vorzustellen, die mit ihren Konventionen und Konventionsbrüchen für sein Schaffen, das sich trotz des ständigen Wandels der Bühnenkultur bis in die heutige Zeit behaupten konnte, von entscheidender Bedeutung war. Gluck begann seine K...
Mary, Music, and Meditation
Burdened by famine, the plague, and economic hardship in the 1500s, the troubled citizens of Milan, mindful of their mortality, turned toward the veneration of the Virgin Mary and the creation of evangelical groups in her name. By 1594 the diversity of these lay religious organizations reflected in microcosm the varied expressions of Marian devotion in the Italian peninsula. Using archival documents, meditation and music books, and iconographical sources, Christine Getz examines the role of music in these Marian cults and confraternities in order to better understand the Church's efforts at using music to evangelize outside the confines of court and cathedral through its most popular saint. Getz reveals how the private music making within these cults, particularly among women, became the primary mode through which the Catholic Church propagated its ideals of femininity and motherhood.
Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Viola da Gamba
The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late 15th century well into the late 18th. In this comprehensive study, Bettina Hoffmann offers both an introduction to the instrument -- its construction, technique and history -- for the non-specialist, interweaving this information with a wealth of original archival scholarship that experts will relish. The book begins with a description of the instrument, and here Hoffmann grapples with the complexity of various names applied to this and related instruments. Following two chapters on the instrument's construction and ancestry, the core of the book is given to a historical and geographical survey of the instrument from its origins into the classical period. The book closes with a look at the revival of interest in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000
This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings drawn from periodicals, theses, dissertations, books, and Festschriften from 1940 to 2000. Over 9,000 references to analyses of works by over 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are included.
