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Johann Mattheson? Pi?s de clavecin and Das neu-er?ete Orchestre

Mattheson? Universal Style in Theory and Practice

By: Margaret Seares

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Johann Mattheson? Pi?s de clavecin and Das neu-er?ete Orchestre

Mattheson? Universal Style in Theory and Practice

By: Margaret Seares

A prolific music theorist and critic as well as an established composer, Johannes Mattheson remains surprisingly understudied. In this important study, Margaret Seares places Mattheson?s Pi?s de clavecin (1714) in the context of his work as a public intellectual who encouraged German musicians and their musical public to eschew what he saw as the hidebound traditions of the past, and instead embrace a universalism of style and expression derived from contemporary currents in music of the leading European nations. Beginning with the early non-musical writings by Mattheson, Seares places them in the context of the cosmopolitan city-state of Hamburg, before moving to a detailed study of his first major musical treatise Das neu-er?ffnete Orchestre of 1713, in which he espoused his views about the musics of the past and present and, in particular, the characteristics of the musics of Germany, Italy, France and England. This latter section of the treatise, Part III, is edited and translated into English in the book's appendix - the first such translation available. Seares then moves on to an evaluation of the Pi?s de clavecin as a work in which Mattheson reflects in musical terms the themes of modernism (in the sense of ?a mode) and universalism that are such a strong part of his writings of the period, and a work that represents an important precursor for the keyboard suites of Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Frideric Handel.

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Johann Mattheson’s Pièces de clavecin and Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre

Mattheson’s Universal Style in Theory and Practice

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Mattheson’s Universal Style in Theory and Practice

By: Margaret Seares

A prolific music theorist and critic as well as an established composer, Johannes Mattheson remains surprisingly understudied. In this important study, Margaret Seares places Mattheson‘s Pi‘s de clavecin (1714) in the context of his work as a public intellectual who encouraged German musicians and their musical public to eschew what he saw as the hidebound traditions of the past, and instead embrace a universalism of style and expression derived from contemporary currents in music of the leading European nations. Beginning with the early non-musical writings by Mattheson, Seares places them in the context of the cosmopolitan city-state of Hamburg, before moving to a detailed study of his first major musical treatise Das neu-er ffnete Orchestre of 1713, in which he espoused his views about the musics of the past and present and, in particular, the characteristics of the musics of Germany, Italy, France and England. This latter section of the treatise, Part III, is edited and translated into English in the book's appendix - the first such translation available. Seares then moves on to an evaluation of the Pi‘s de clavecin as a work in which Mattheson reflects in musical terms the themes of modernism (in the sense ofa mode) and universalism that are such a strong part of his writings of the period, and a work that represents an important precursor for the keyboard suites of Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Frideric Handel.

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Paradise Lost in Short

Smith, Stillingfleet, and the Transformation of Epic

By: Kay Gilliland Stevenson,Margaret Seares

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Paradise Lost in Short

Smith, Stillingfleet, and the Transformation of Epic

By: Kay Gilliland Stevenson,Margaret Seares

Paradise Lost in Short presents the history of early adaptations of Milton's Paradise Lost for the musical stage. Students of Milton and of eighteenth-century music, as well as anyone interested in how generic expectations and social conditions contribute to the shaping of artistic works, will find this volume useful. Paradise Lost: An Oratorio was first performed at Covent Garden the year after Handel's death and revived in two later seasons. The libretto by Benjamin Stillingfleet and the music by John Christopher Smith the younger, friend and former pupil of Handel, provide a reinterpretation of Milton's major poem.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838637183

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Scientists and the Sea, 1650–1900

A Study of Marine Science

By: Margaret Deacon

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Scientists and the Sea, 1650–1900

A Study of Marine Science

By: Margaret Deacon

Scientists and the Sea is a history of how the scientific study of the sea has developed over a period of nearly 2500 years. Beginning with the speculations of Greek philosophers it carries the story forward, showing how curiosity about the ocean appeared in many different forms and locations before, in the late 19th century, the first deep-sea researches heralded the foundation of the science known today as oceanography. Originally published in 1971, this book has never been superseded as the most comprehensive and wide-ranging treatment of the emergence of marine science within the western scientific tradition. After three introductory chapters dealing with knowledge up to the Renaissance, the main part of the work shows how pioneers of scientific observation at sea during the 17th and 18th centuries made notable discoveries, but that it was not until the middle of the 19th century when, aided by the advance of technology, scientists were able to undertake the first explorations of the ocean depths. This second edition contains a new introduction and bibliography.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351901583

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Magister Jacobus de Ispania, Author of the Speculum musicae

By: Margaret Bent

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Magister Jacobus de Ispania, Author of the Speculum musicae

By: Margaret Bent

The Speculum musicae of the early fourteenth century, with nearly half a million words, is by a long way the largest medieval treatise on music, and probably the most learned. Only the final two books are about music as commonly understood: the other five invite further work by students of scholastic philosophy, theology and mathematics. For nearly a century, its author has been known as Jacques de Liège or Jacobus Leodiensis. ’Jacobus’ is certain, fixed by an acrostic declared within the text; Liège is hypothetical, based on evidence shown here to be less than secure. The one complete manuscript, Paris BnF lat. 7207, thought by its editor to be Florentine, can now be shown on the basis of its miniatures by Cristoforo Cortese to be from the Veneto, datable c. 1434-40. New documentary evidence in an Italian inventory, also from the Veneto, describes a lost copy of the treatise dating from before 1419, older than the surviving manuscript, and identifies its author as ’Magister Jacobus de Ispania’. If this had been known eighty years ago, the Liège hypothesis would never have taken root. It invites a new look at the geography and influences that played into this central document of medieval music theory. The two new attributes of ’Magister’ and ’de Ispania’ (i.e. a foreigner) prompted an extensive search in published indexes for possible identities. Surprisingly few candidates of this name emerged, and only one in the right date range. It is here suggested that the author of the Speculum is either someone who left no paper trail or James of Spain, a nephew of Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I, whose career is documented mostly in England. He was an illegitimate son of Eleanor’s older half-brother, the Infante Enrique of Castile. Documentary evidence shows that he was a wealthy and well-travelled royal prince who was also an Oxford magister. The book traces his career and the likelihood of his authorship of the Speculum musicae.

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1317102738

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Johann Mattheson? Pi?s de clavecin and Das neu-er?ete Orchestre

Mattheson? Universal Style in Theory and Practice

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Johann Mattheson’s Pièces de clavecin and Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre

Mattheson’s Universal Style in Theory and Practice

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Mattheson’s Universal Style in Theory and Practice

By: Margaret Seares

A prolific music theorist and critic as well as an established composer, Johannes Mattheson remains surprisingly understudied. In this important study, Margaret Seares places Mattheson‘s Pi‘s de clavecin (1714) in the context of his work as a public intellectual who encouraged German musicians and their musical public to eschew what he saw as the hidebound traditions of the past, and instead embrace a universalism of style and expression derived from contemporary currents in music of the leading European nations. Beginning with the early non-musical writings by Mattheson, Seares places them in the context of the cosmopolitan city-state of Hamburg, before moving to a detailed study of his first major musical treatise Das neu-er ffnete Orchestre of 1713, in which he espoused his views about the musics of the past and present and, in particular, the characteristics of the musics of Germany, Italy, France and England. This latter section of the treatise, Part III, is edited and translated into English in the book's appendix - the first such translation available. Seares then moves on to an evaluation of the Pi‘s de clavecin as a work in which Mattheson reflects in musical terms the themes of modernism (in the sense ofa mode) and universalism that are such a strong part of his writings of the period, and a work that represents an important precursor for the keyboard suites of Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Frideric Handel.

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Paradise Lost in Short

Smith, Stillingfleet, and the Transformation of Epic

By: Kay Gilliland Stevenson,Margaret Seares

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Paradise Lost in Short

Smith, Stillingfleet, and the Transformation of Epic

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Volume 1

By: Margaret Fuller

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Volume 1

By: Margaret Fuller

Reproduction of the original: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli by Margaret Fuller

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Outlook Verlag

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375230703X

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Johann Mattheson? Pi?s de clavecin and Das neu-er?ete Orchestre

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Scientists and the Sea, 1650–1900

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Magister Jacobus de Ispania, Author of the Speculum musicae

Johann Mattheson? Pi?s de clavecin and Das neu-er?ete Orchestre

Johann Mattheson? Pi?s de clavecin and Das neu-er?ete Orchestre

Johann Mattheson’s Pièces de clavecin and Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre

Johann Mattheson’s Pièces de clavecin and Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre

Paradise Lost in Short

Paradise Lost in Short

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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