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Giovanni Gabrieli
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Giovanni Gabrieli

Knowledge and debate in the field of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Venetian music has greatly benefitted in recent decades from studies of major institutions, composers, repertories and sources, as also from investigations of the quantitative aspects of musical life in what was one of the largest, richest and most commercially oriented cities on the Italian peninsula: the Venetian musical phenomenon includes, on the one hand, regular or sporadic musical activities in the city's many churches and private palaces (activities which provided significant earnings for large numbers of musicians, whether or not salaried members of the ducal cappella) and, on the other, the auxiliary trad...

Calling on the Composer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

Calling on the Composer

Every musically curious traveler or reader will find this guidebook indispensable. Distinguished musicologists Julie Anne and Stanley Sadie have traveled across Europe to compile an unparalleled directory of more than three hundred houses and museums where composers have lived and worked. Lively commentary on each location is included.

Opera as Institution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Opera as Institution

This volume brings together ten essays focusing on the diversity of operatic institutions, their protagonists, and historical fortunes in Europe from 1730 to 1917. Its aim is not to understand operatic institutions as locally distinct and isolated organizations, but rather to perceive them as a part of a historically fluctuating, transnational network: a network that was shaped among other things by individual professionals and groups in the opera business (and beyond), as well as by specific socio-cultural and political surroundings. The volume offers new perspectives on a wide range of topics, including networks of cultural exchange, singers as agents in shaping institutional structures, and the influence of socio-cultural, diplomatic, and political factors on operatic production across international borders.

A History of Baroque Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 732

A History of Baroque Music

"A History of Baroque Music is a detailed treatment of the music of the Baroque era, with particular focus on the seventeenth century. The author's approach is a history of musical style with an emphasis on musical scores. The book is divided initially by time period into early and later Baroque (1600-1700 and 1700-1750 respectively), and secondarily by country and composer. An introductory chapter discusses stylistic continuity with the late Renaissance and examines the etymology of the term "Baroque." The concluding chapter on the composer Telemann addresses the stylistic shift that led to the end of the Baroque and the transition into the Classical period."--Jacket.

Music as Social and Cultural Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

Music as Social and Cultural Practice

"The linking theme of the essays collected here is the intersection of musical work with social and cultural practice. Inspired by Professor Strohm's ideas, as is fitting in a volume in his honour, leading scholars in the field explore diverse conceptualizations of the 'work' within the contexts of a specific repertory, over four main sections. Music in Theory and Practice studies the link between treatises and musical practice, and analyses how historical writings can reveal period views on the 'work' in music before 1800. Art and Social Process: Music in Court and Urban Societies looks at the social and cultural practices informing composition from the late Renaissance until the mid-eighte...

Ottaviano Petrucci
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1294

Ottaviano Petrucci

The innovative work in design, typography, and content of music printer and publisher Ottaviano Petrucci (1446-1539) became the standard by which all following printers measured themselves. He created the defining moment when Italy took the lead in book printing in the Renaissance.This book is a bibliographic study of the output of the Petrucci presses, laying emphasis on the professional career of Petrucci. It includes a detailed study of technique and house-style, examining the market forces that drove Petrucci's publishing decisions, and provides a detailed catalogue of editions and copies.Stanley Boorman has made a study of the output of Petrucci's presses for 25 years. This long-awaited contribution to the field of bibliography will have an audience both in music and in rare book bibliography.

A Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 653

A Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-09-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

A Companion to Music at the Habsburgs Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, edited by Andrew H. Weaver, is the first in-depth survey of Habsburg musical patronage over a broad timeframe. Bringing together existing research and drawing upon primary sources, the authors, all established experts, provide overviews of the musical institutions, the functions of music, the styles and genres cultivated, and the historical, political, and cultural contexts for music at the Habsburg courts. The wide geographical scope includes the imperial courts in Vienna and Prague, the royal court in Madrid, the archducal courts in Graz and Innsbruck, and others. This broad view of Habsburg musical activities affirms the dynasty’s unique position in the cultural life of early modern Europe. Contributors are Lawrence Bennett, Charles E. Brewer, Drew Edward Davies, Paula Sutter Fichtner, Alexander J. Fisher, Christine Getz, Beth L. Glixon, Jeffrey Kurtzman, Virginia Christy Lamothe, Honey Meconi, Sara Pecknold, Jonas Pfohl, Pablo L. Rodríguez, Steven Saunders, Herbert Seifert, Louise K. Stein, and Andrew H. Weaver.

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 636

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music

First published in 2005, this title provides extensive knowledge on seventeenth-century music.

300 let Academia philharmonicorum Labacensium (1701–2001)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

300 let Academia philharmonicorum Labacensium (1701–2001)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-01-01
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  • Publisher: Založba ZRC

Zbornik prinaša referate z istoimenskega mednarodnega simpozija, ki je potekal 25. in 26. oktobra 2001 v Ljubljani. Namen zborovanja je bil slovesno obuditi spomin na to pomembno akademsko filharmonično ustanovo in opozoriti na njeno vpetost v glasbeno poustvarjanje tako na Slovenskem kot v evropskem kontekstu. Sedemnajst referentov iz šestih držav je poudarilo pomen kontinuitete tristoletnega razvoja orkestrskega oziroma simfoničnega poustvarjanja na Slovenskem, čeprav z nekaj prekinitvami, in s tem oblikovanja tradicije.

Go Girls!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

Go Girls!

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-01-01
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  • Publisher: Založba ZRC

Go Girls! When Slovenian Women Left Home is not about researching and writing only about female emigration, some kind of "women's migration", but is among other things focused on understanding the complexity, multi-facetedness and of course the multi-gendered aspect of migrations. This can only be done by focusing on a missing but constitutive part of migration processes - the migration of women. Therefore, to "make visible" that which was, as the title of one of the most famous feminist books says, "hidden from history", or in the words of the best-known Slovenian researcher of "women's history", to "write women" into the body of knowledge on migration and into knowledge in general. This "writing of women", must not be just a matter of supplementing and placing into context previously overlooked events, phenomena, and occurrences, but in fact must be a project of critically sifting through the entire body of migration studies and thereby reproducing gender-determined knowledge.