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Book The Madrigals of Michelangelo Rossi

Download or read book The Madrigals of Michelangelo Rossi written by Michelangelo Rossi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelangelo Rossi's two books of five-voice polyphonic madrigals are among the most expressive works of their kind ever composed. Showing the influence of Gesualdo, the madrigals were probably written in Rome between 1624 and 1629, when Rossi was in the service of Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy. They were apparently never published, and there is only one complete manuscript source, which once belonged to Queen Christina of Sweden and now forms the principal source for Brian Mann's critical edition. In his extensive introduction, Mann considers in detail the biographical, cultural, and stylistic milieu in which the madrigals were written. The scholarly edition of the music, based on a thorough examination of all the known sources, includes a complete critical commentary. Mann's work on Rossi's madrigals has already helped revive interest in them. In 1998 a CD recording of Book I appeared on the Virgin label, performed by Il Complesso Barocco under the direction of Alan Curtis, and based on this critical edition.

Book The Composer Michelangelo Rossi

Download or read book The Composer Michelangelo Rossi written by Catherine Moore and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Madrigal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Lewis Hammond
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-08-06
  • ISBN : 1135966990
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book The Madrigal written by Susan Lewis Hammond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Madrigal: A Research and Information Guide is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarship on virtually all aspects of madrigal composition, production, and consumption. It contains 1,237 entries for items in English, French, German, and Italian. Scholars, students, teachers, librarians, and performers now have access to this rich literature in a single volume.

Book Music in the Seventeenth Century

Download or read book Music in the Seventeenth Century written by Lorenzo Bianconi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-11-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines musical life in the seventeenth century, a period of profound change in the history of music.

Book The Grand Theater of the World

Download or read book The Grand Theater of the World written by Valeria De Lucca and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and space in the early modern world shaped each other in profound ways, and this is particularly apparent when considering Rome, a city that defined itself as the "grande teatro del mondo". The aim of this book is to consider music and space as fundamental elements in the performance of identity in early modern Rome. Rome’s unique milieu, as defined by spiritual and political power, as well as diplomacy and competition between aristocratic families, offers an exceptionally wide array of musical spaces and practices to be explored from an interdisciplinary perspective. Space is viewed as the theatrical backdrop against which to study a variety of musical practices in their functions as signifiers of social and political meanings. The editors wish to go beyond the traditional distinction between music theatrical spectacles – namely opera – and other musical genres and practices to offer a more comprehensive perspective on the ways in which not only dramatic, but also instrumental music and even the sounds of voices and objects in the streets relied on the theatrical dimension of space for their effectiveness in conveying social and political messages. While most chapters deal with musical performances, some focus on specific aspects of the Roman soundscape, or are even intentionally "silent", dealing with visual arts and architecture in their performative and theatrical aspects. The latter offer a perspective that creates a visual counterpoint to the ways in which music and sound shaped space.

Book Experimental Affinities in Music

Download or read book Experimental Affinities in Music written by Paulo de Assis and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring experimental attitudes in music Experimental Affinities in Music brings together diverse artistic, musicological, historical, and philosophical essays, enhancing a broad discourse on artistic experimentation, and exploring various experimental attitudes in music composed between the thirteenth and twentieth centuries. The golden thread running through the different chapters is the quest for inherently experimental musical practices, a quest pursued from interrogating, descriptive, or challenging perspectives, and always in relation to concrete music examples. Experimental is taken as an adventurous compositional, interpretive, or performative attitude that can cut across different ages and styles. Affinitiessuggest connectors and connections, convergences, contiguities, and adjacencies that are found in and through a diversity of approaches and topics. The texts share a common genesis: the lectures of the International Orpheus Academies for Music and Theory convened by Luk Vaes (2011) and Paulo de Assis (2012, 2013). The affinities found in this volume include essays by Lydia Goehr, Felix Diergarten, Mark Lindley, Martin Kirnbauer, Edward Wickham, Lawrence Kramer, Hermann Danuser, and Thomas Christensen, as well as interviews with pianist Leon Fleisher, with pianist-composer Frederic Rzewski, and with composer Helmut Lachenmann. Contributors Paulo de Assis (Orpheus Institute, Ghent), Thomas Christensen (University of Chicago), Hermann Danuser (Humboldt University), Felix Diergarten (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis), Leon Fleisher (pianist), Lydia Goehr (Columbia University), Martin Kirnbauer (University of Basel), Lawrence Kramer (Fordham University), Helmut Lachenmann (composer), Mark Lindley (University of Hyderabad), Frederic Rzewski (pianist-composer), Luk Vaes (Orpheus Institute, Ghent), Edward Wickham (St Catharine’s College, Cambridge)

Book The Gesualdo Hex  Music  Myth  and Memory

Download or read book The Gesualdo Hex Music Myth and Memory written by Glenn Watkins and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting investigation of one of the most provocative musicians of the Renaissance, who continues to captivate composers, artists, and audiences today. In this vivid tale of adultery and intrigue, witchcraft and murder, Glenn Watkins explores the fascinating life of the Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo—a life suffused with scandal and bordering on the fantastical. An isolated prince, Gesualdo had a personal life that was no less eccentric and bewildering than the music he composed; his biography has often clouded our perception of his oeuvre, which music scholars have periodically dismissed as a late Renaissance deformation of little consequence. Today, however, Gesualdo’s music, once deemed so strange as to be unperformable, stands as one of the most vibrant legacies of the late Italian Renaissance with an undeniable impact on a host of twentieth-century musicians and artists. The incendiary details of Gesualdo’s life recede, and his grip on our musical imagination comes to the fore. Watkins challenges our preconceptions of what has become a nearly mythic persona, weaving together the cumulative experience of some of the most vibrant artists of the past century from Stravinsky and Schoenberg to Abbado and Herzog. Beyond questions of mere influence, however, The Gesualdo Hex offers a profound meditation on cultural memory and historical awareness: how composers attempt to shape the legacy they will bequeath to the world, and how music and history inevitably take on a new guise as they are revisited by subsequent generations and reinterpreted in light of contemporary experience. In examining Gesualdo’s life, music, myth, and memory intertwine with one another to reveal an uncanny affinity with our own time. With his elegant and engaging prose, Watkins asks us to grapple with our understanding not only of art and the artists who create it but also of history itself.

Book Humanities

Download or read book Humanities written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Salamone Rossi

    Book Details:
  • Author : Don Harrán
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 0195168135
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Salamone Rossi written by Don Harrán and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salamone Rossi occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European music tradition. Working for the Gonzaga dukes in Mantua, yet remaining faithful to his own religious community, Rossi's life provides unique insights on life during the Renaissance and on such contemporary questions as how individuals respond to competing cultural influences.

Book The Madrigals of Michelangelo Rossi

Download or read book The Madrigals of Michelangelo Rossi written by Michelangelo Rossi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelangelo Rossi's two books of five-voice polyphonic madrigals are among the most expressive works of their kind ever composed. Showing the influence of Gesualdo, the madrigals were probably written in Rome between 1624 and 1629, when Rossi was in the service of Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy. They were apparently never published, and there is only one complete manuscript source, which once belonged to Queen Christina of Sweden and now forms the principal source for Brian Mann's critical edition. In his extensive introduction, Mann considers in detail the biographical, cultural, and stylistic milieu in which the madrigals were written. The scholarly edition of the music, based on a thorough examination of all the known sources, includes a complete critical commentary. Mann's work on Rossi's madrigals has already helped revive interest in them. In 1998 a CD recording of Book I appeared on the Virgin label, performed by Il Complesso Barocco under the direction of Alan Curtis, and based on this critical edition.

Book The Publishing of Arcadelt s First Book of Madrigals

Download or read book The Publishing of Arcadelt s First Book of Madrigals written by Thomas Whitney Bridges and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Endowment for the Humanities     Annual Report

Download or read book National Endowment for the Humanities Annual Report written by National Endowment for the Humanities and published by . This book was released on with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report   National Endowment for the Humanities

Download or read book Annual Report National Endowment for the Humanities written by National Endowment for the Humanities and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes appendices.

Book Tanz und Musik

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christelle Cazaux
  • Publisher : Schwabe Verlag (Basel)
  • Release : 2023-11-13
  • ISBN : 379654973X
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book Tanz und Musik written by Christelle Cazaux and published by Schwabe Verlag (Basel). This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wie beeinflussen Tanzbewegungen die musikalische Spielweise? Und umgekehrt: Welche Wirkung hat die musikalische Interpretation auf die Ausführung einer Choreografie? Wie stehen tänzerische und melodische Phrasierung zueinander? Derlei Fragen zum Verhältnis von Tanz und Musik ergeben sich sowohl bei der praktischen Ausführung als auch bei der Erforschung historischer ‹Tanzmusik›. Entsprechend vielseitig sind die Zugänge, mit denen dieser interdisziplinäre Band ‹Tanzmusik› vom Mittelalter bis zur Romantik untersucht, kontextualisiert und im Sinne historischer Musikpraxis erschließt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Klang und Bewegung in verschiedenen historischen Repertoires, Gattungen und Formen.

Book Catalog of Pre 1900 Vocal Manuscripts in the Music Library  University of California at Berkeley

Download or read book Catalog of Pre 1900 Vocal Manuscripts in the Music Library University of California at Berkeley written by John A. Emerson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

Book Oxford History of Western Music

Download or read book Oxford History of Western Music written by Richard Taruskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 6390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the c