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The Flute Book
The instrument -- Performance -- The music -- Repertoire catalog -- Fingering chart for the Boehm flute -- Flute manufacturers -- Repair shops -- Sources for instruments and accessories -- Sources for music and books -- Journals, societies, and service organizations -- Flute clubs and societies.
Monteverdi's Voices
Monteverdi's Voices provides a comprehensive account of the musical madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi. Author Tim Carter sheds light on how these wonderfully witty works played a key role in music-historical development, offering offer key insights into the cultural, social, and intellectual life of Europe on the cusp of modernity, and shows why they continue to be cornerstones of the repertory for performers of early music.
The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord
Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature
The twenty-eight essays in this Handbook represent the best of current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. The insights offered by the collective of authors not only illuminate the field of medieval Latin literature but shed new light on broader questions of literary history, cultural interaction, world literature, and language in history and society. The contributors to this volume--a collection of both senior scholars and gifted young thinkers--vividly illustrate the field's complexities on a wide range of topics through carefully chosen examples and challenges to settled answers of the past. At the same time, they suggest future possibilities for the...
On the Art of the Kabbalah
Reuchlin?s keen interest in Jewish mysticism resulted in the original publication of this work in 1517. The first part of this dialogue reflects on messianism, the second part on the relation of the Pythagorean system to the Kabbalah, and the third on the "practical Kabbalah." ΓΈ The German humanist Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522) defended the value of Jewish scholarship and literature when it was unwise and unpopular to do so. As G. Lloyd Jones points out, "A marked mistrust of the Jews had developed among Christian scholars during the later Middle Ages. It was claimed that the rabbis had purposely falsified the text of the Old Testament and given erroneous explanations of passages which were c...
