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Classical Rhetoric & Its Christian & Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times
Since its original publication by UNC Press in 1980, this book has provided thousands of students with a concise introduction and guide to the history of the classical tradition in rhetoric, the ancient but ever vital art of persuasion. Now, George Ken
Essays on Handel and Italian Opera
Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition.
Musicologia Humana
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Identity and Locality in Early European Music, 1028-1740
This collection presents numerous discoveries and fresh insights into music and musical practices that shaped distinctly localized individual and collective identities in pre-modern and early modern Europe. Contributions by leading and emerging European music experts fall into three areas: plainchant traditions in Aquitania and the Iberian peninsula during the first 700 years of the second millennium; late medieval musical aesthetics, traditions and practices in Paris, Padua, Prague and more generally England, Germany and Spain; and local traditions in Renaissance Augsburg and Baroque Naples and Dresden. In addition to in-depth readings of anonymous musical traditions, contributors provide new details concerning the lives and music of well-known composers. This book will appeal to a broad range of readers, including chant scholars, medievalists, music historians, and anyone interested in music's place in pre modern and early modern European culture.
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...
Bach Studies 2
This 1995 volume presents twelve essays by internationally distinguished Bach scholars, covering a broad range of issues in this field.
Inside Early Music
The attempt to play music with the styles and instruments of its era--commonly referred to as the early music movement--has become immensely popular in recent years. For instance, Billboard's "Top Classical Albums" of 1993 and 1994 featured Anonymous 4, who sing medieval music, and the best-selling Beethoven recording of 1995 was a period-instruments symphony cycle led by John Eliot Gardiner, who is Deutsche Grammophon's top-selling living conductor. But the movement has generated as much controversy as it has best-selling records, not only about the merits of its results, but also about the validity of its approach. To what degree can we recreate long-lost performing styles? How important a...
Cicero Refused to Die
Cicero, it would seem, has refused to die, despite a tragic and ignominious assassination in 43 B.C., and the fact that today Latin is decreasing as a language that is commonly taught. This book offers a thorough study of why Cicero and his works have continued, through the centuries, to have an enormous influence, for example, on education, literature, legal training—an influence that brings the past into the present.
Kantaten für Fürst und Kaiser
Antonio Caldara, Zeitgenosse Georg Friedrich Händels und Alessandro Scarlattis, hat wie diese ein reichhaltiges Œuvre auf dem Gebiet der weltlichen Kantate hinterlassen – das jedoch zu den noch weitgehend ungehobenen Schätzen der Musikwissenschaft wie der musikalischen Praxis zählt. Das Gros der über 350 Kantatenkompositionen entstand zwischen 1709 und 1716 in Rom, danach bis 1736 in Wien, hier für Fürst Francesco Maria Ruspoli, dort für Kaiser Karl VI. An beiden Orten verstand es Caldara bemerkenswert konzise, die je spezifischen Wünsche seiner Auftraggeber zu befriedigen. Der Band legt die Unterschiede der Kompositionstechnik, der Textgrundlage wie des soziokulturellen Rahmens, in dem die Werke entstanden, offen und macht dergestalt die musikalischen Anpassungen innerhalb des Kantatenschaffens erkennbar, als Caldara 1716 aus dem Dienst des neunobilitierten römischen Fürsten in jenen des zeremoniell völlig anders zu verortenden ehrwürdigen Kaiserhauses wechselte.
The Social and Religious Designs of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
This new investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies. By reference to contemporary music theory, to alternate notions of the meaning of "concerto," and to various eighteenth-century conventions of form and instrumentation, the book argues that the Brandenburg Concertos are better understood not as an arbitrary collection of unrelated examples of "pure" instrumental music, but rather as a carefully compiled and meaningfully organized set. It shows how Bach's concertos challenge (as opposed to reflect) existing musical and social hierarchies. Careful consideration of Lutheran theol...
