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Authenticity in Performance: Eighteenth-Century Case Studies

By: Peter Le Huray

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Authenticity in Performance: Eighteenth-Century Case Studies

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Authenticity in Performance focuses on nine representative works from the Baroque and Classical periods, defining some of the more important questions that the performer and listener should ask.

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0521399262

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The Treasury of English Church Music 1545-1650

By: Peter le Huray

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The Treasury of English Church Music 1545-1650

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The period covered by this volume is one of the most eventful and fruitful in the history of English music. This selection - embracing the motet, festal psalm, anthem, canticle and devotional song - has been edited according to modern scholarly standards, but with the needs of practical performance in mind. The choice of music gives a comprehensive picture of the period, with many well-known works included as outstanding examples of their kind. Less familiar compositions are also featured, and they fill important gaps in the available repertory - notably settings of the Nunc dimittis by Tye, Robert Parsons and Thomas Tomkins, a festal psalm by Tallis, verse anthems by William Mundy and Walter Porter, and full anthems by Amner, Batten, Thomas Tomkins and William Child. A general historical introduction and a calendar of events are supplied, together with notes on each piece and a list of the sources used.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521248892

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Authenticities

Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance

By: Peter Kivy

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Authenticities

Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance

By: Peter Kivy

In his latest book on the aesthetics of music, Peter Kivy presents an argument not for authenticity but for authenticities of performance, including authenticities of intention, sound, practice, and the authenticity of personal interpretation in performance.... As usual, Kivy's work is beautifully written, well argued, and provocative."—Notes"Kivy has provided a sorely needed framework for all future discussion of the authenticity matter. This is his best book, a major contribution to performance studies and to musical aesthetics; likely it will be studied and cited for generations."—Choice"Written in lively prose, with a keen sense of reality, [this volume] ought to be of interest not only to philosophers and musicologists, but to all serious lovers of music."—Roger Scruton, Times Literary Supplement"The consistent theme running through Kivy's book is the need for interpretation as the personal authenticity and authority of the performer against the ideology both of the composer as genius and of the puritanical devotion to the authority of the text of the early music devotees.... This is a most valuable book, one which constantly surprises and delights through its philosophical insights and informed musical understanding."—British Journal of Aesthetics

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Cornell University Press

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1501731637

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Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660

By: Peter Le Huray

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Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660

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Presents issues that affected the course of music within the church of England during the reformation.

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0521219582

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World Musics in Context

A Comprehensive Survey of the World's Major Musical Cultures

By: Peter Fletcher

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World Musics in Context

A Comprehensive Survey of the World's Major Musical Cultures

By: Peter Fletcher

This volume contains a wide-ranging survey of musics of the world in historical and social contexts, from ancient times to the present day. It begins by describing aspects of musical style and function in relation to the early developments of civilizations, as background to a study of later transformations. It then describes, in some detail, musical traditions of Africa and Asia, in relation to history/geography and to other aspects of culture. A compendium of information currently available as well as a dialectical examination of musical causation and function, this book aims to lead students, teachers, and those who practice Western music towards a deeper understanding of the various musical traditions that contribute to the modern, multicultural environment."--Publisher's description

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195175077

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Antithetical Arts

On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music

By: Peter Kivy

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Antithetical Arts

On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music

By: Peter Kivy

Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific attempts to put literary interpretations on various works of the absolute music canon are examined and criticized. Finally, in Part III, the question is raised as to what the human significance of absolute music is, if it does not lie in its representational or narrative content. The answer is that, as yet, philosophy has no answer, and that the question should be considered an important one for philosophers of art to consider, and to try to answer without appeal to representational or narrative content.

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OUP Oxford

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0191615757

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Before the Baton

Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain

By: Peter Holman

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Before the Baton

Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain

By: Peter Holman

How was large-scale music directed or conducted in Britain before baton conducting took hold in the 1830s?

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783274565

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Life After Death

The Viola Da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch

By: Peter Holman

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Life After Death

The Viola Da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch

By: Peter Holman

New research throws light on the history of the viol after Purcell, including its revival in the late eighteenth century through Charles Frederick Abel.

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1843835746

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Osmin's Rage

Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text

By: Peter Kivy

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Osmin's Rage

Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text

By: Peter Kivy

In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical—as opposed to a dramatic—necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo is properly enjoyed and judged only when listeners are attuned to its seventeenth and eighteenth-century forebears.

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Cornell University Press

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1501727400

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The Arts Entwined

Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century

By: Marsha Morton,Peter L. Schmunk

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The Arts Entwined

Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century

By: Marsha Morton,Peter L. Schmunk

This collection of essays by musicologists and art historians explores the reciprocal influences between music and painting during the nineteenth century, a critical period of gestation when instrumental music was identified as the paradigmatic expressive art and theoretically aligned with painting in the formulation ut pictura musica (as with music, so with painting). Under music's influence, painting approached the threshold of abstraction; concurrently many composers cultivated pictorial effects in their music. Individual essays address such themes as visualization in music, the literary vs. pictorial basis of the symphonic poem, musical pictorialism in painting and lithography, and the influence of Wagner on the visual arts. In these and other ways, both composers and painters actively participated in interarts discourses in seeking to redefine the very identity and aims of their art. Also includes 17 musical examples.

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Routledge

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1135672776

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The Organ in Western Culture, 750-1250

By: Peter Williams

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The Organ in Western Culture, 750-1250

By: Peter Williams

How did the organ become a church instrument? In this fascinating investigation Peter Williams speculates on this question and suggests some likely answers. Central to the story he uncovers is the liveliness of European monasticism around 1000 and the ability and imagination of the Benedictine reformers.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521617073

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Music Alone

Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience

By: Peter Kivy

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Music Alone

Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience

By: Peter Kivy

What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Peter Kivy continues his highly regarded exploration of the philosophy of musical aesthetics. He considers here what he believes to be the most difficult subject of all--"just plain music; music unaccompanied by text, title, subject, program, or plot; in other words, music alone.

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0801499607

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English Drama Before Shakespeare

By: Peter Happe

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English Drama Before Shakespeare

By: Peter Happe

English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing that there was much continuity throughout this period, in spite of many innovations. The range of dramatic activity includes well-known features such as mystery cycles and the interludes, as well as comedy and tragedy. Para-dramatic activity such as the liturgical drama, royal entries and localised or parish drama is also covered. Many of the plays considered are anonymous, but a coherent, biographical view can be taken of the work of known dramatists such as John Heywood, John Bale, and Christopher Marlowe. Peter Happé's study is based upon close reading of selected plays, especially from the mystery cycles and such Elizabethan works as Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. It takes account of contemporary research into dramatic form, performance (including some important recent revivals), dramatic sites and early theatre buildings, and the nature of early dramatic texts. Recent changes in outlook generated by the publication of the written records of early drama form part of the book's focus. There is an extensive bibliography covering social and political background, the lives and works of individual authors, and the development of theatrical ideas through the period. The book is aimed at undergraduates, as well as offering an overview for more advanced students and researchers in drama and in related fields of literature and cultural studies.

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1317871138

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Bach

A Musical Biography

By: Peter Williams

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Bach

A Musical Biography

By: Peter Williams

Peter Williams revisits Bach's biography through the lens of his music, revealing the development of the composer's interests and priorities.

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1107139252

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The Organ Music of J. S. Bach: Volume 2

By: Peter Williams

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The Organ Music of J. S. Bach: Volume 2

By: Peter Williams

Bach's organ works--the best-known of all music ever written for the instrument--have been the subject of a great variety of interpretations, all too often based on subjective opinion and conjecture. What the author does in this piece-by-piece commentary is to combine a performer's insight and experience with the fruits of scholarly research. He is concerned throughout to reconstruct for the modern performer and listener the original context of the work: its sources and history; its place in the composer's development; the implications of contemporary instruments and performing practice, and of the musical and aesthetic theories of the time; and the background which shaped Bach's view of the original chorale melodies. Each of the collections of organ chorales is examined as an entity in a preliminary essay. Then for each piece the author discusses the important sources and their relationship; quotes the underlying chorale melody and one or more verses of the text (with a literal translation) and describes its importance in the life of Bach's church; and analyses the form and style of the organ setting, with many musical examples and frequent allusions to the views of other commentators.

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0521317002

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9780521317009

The Organ Music of J. S. Bach: Volume 1, Preludes, Toccatas, Fantasias, Fugues, Sonatas, Concertos and Miscellaneous Pieces (BWV 525-598, 802-805 etc)

By: Peter Williams

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The Organ Music of J. S. Bach: Volume 1, Preludes, Toccatas, Fantasias, Fugues, Sonatas, Concertos and Miscellaneous Pieces (BWV 525-598, 802-805 etc)

By: Peter Williams

These paperback editions makes Peter Williams's influential scholarship available to a wider field of readers, including those with an interest in the ever-expanding discussions of original instrumentation and its implications for modern performance. Professor Williams examines Bach's organ works piece-by-piece, reconstructing for the present-day performer and listener the original context of the work. Form and style are analysed, with abundant musical examples and frequent allusions to the views of other commentators. Each volume contains a preface, calendar, lists of musical sources and references, and an index.

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0521270782

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Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660

By: Peter Le Huray

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Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660

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Presents issues that affected the course of music within the church of England during the reformation.

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The Fine Art of Repetition

Essays in the Philosophy of Music

By: Peter Kivy

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The Fine Art of Repetition

Essays in the Philosophy of Music

By: Peter Kivy

Collection of essays on the following issues: music and the liberal education, work and performance, the world of opera, music and the history of ideas, music and emotion, and music alone.

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The Organ Music of J. S. Bach

By: Peter Williams

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The Organ Music of J. S. Bach

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This is a completely revised 2003 edition of volumes I and II of The Organ Music of J. S. Bach (1980), a bestselling title, which has subsequently become a classic text. This edition takes account of Bach scholarship of the 25 years prior to publication. Peter Williams's piece-by-piece commentary puts the musical sources of the organ works in context, describing the form and content of each work and relating them to other music, German and non-German. He summarises the questions about the history, authenticity, chronology, function and performance of each piece, and points out important details of style and musical quality. The study follows the order of the Bach catalogue (BWV), beginning with the sonatas, then the 'free works', followed by chorales and ending with the doubtful works, including the 'newly discovered chorales' of 1985.

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0521814162

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Authenticity in Performance: Eighteenth-Century Case Studies

By: Peter Le Huray

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Authenticity in Performance: Eighteenth-Century Case Studies

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Authenticity in Performance focuses on nine representative works from the Baroque and Classical periods, defining some of the more important questions that the performer and listener should ask.

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