Download or read book Organ Literature of the Seventeenth Century written by John R. Shannon and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The seventeenth is the greatest of all centuries for the organ and for its literature. Never before or since has this instrument served as such an important medium of musical composition. Such composers as Frescobaldi, Cabanilles, De Grigny, the Couperins, Sweelinck, Scheidemann, Scheidt, Bruhns, Buxtehude, Froberger, and Pachelbel regarded it as their principal outlet for creative expression. In this study, the author first traces the origins of seventeenth-century styles in the keyboard music of the late Renaissance; he then devotes individual chapters to each of the important geographical styles of seventeenth-century organ music. The book's point of orientation is the manner in which each of these styles develops its own unique vocabulary and set of compositional techniques. The text is illustrated by some two hundred musical examples carefully selected to demonstrate each stylistic development. The volume concludes with a selected and annotated bibliography of readily available performances of the entire repertory." --Dust jacket.
Download or read book Nine Seventeenth Century Organ Transcriptions from the Operas of Lully written by Almonte C. HowellJr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Baptiste Lully is perhaps best known in the history of music as the founder of French opera. Although Italian-born himself, he created a form of opera so suited to French tastes and needs that it alone, among the attempts of various other nations at operatic forms of their own, was able to resist domination by Italian opera and to maintain its individual identity during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The impress he made upon French music was enormous, and it affected every musical medium of his day. Evidence of his influence in a field as remote from his own as the literature for the organ is seen in the nine pieces that make up this present collection. Despite their operatic origins, the Lully transcriptions should be useful to the present-day church organist, as the pieces have no secular associations for present-day listeners. The overtures make excellent preludes for festive services, and the marches are suitable both for processionals and postludes. For recital use, several of the pieces could be very successfully grouped together into a suite.
Download or read book The Evolution of Organ Music in the 17th Century written by John R. Shannon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17th century was the century of the organ in much the same way the 19th century was the century of the piano. Almost without exception, the major composers of the century wrote for the instrument, and most of them were practicing organists themselves. This historical book surveys, analyzes, and discusses the major national styles of 17th century European organ music. Due to the extraordinarily extensive body of literature produced during this 100-year period, this text includes 350 musical examples to illustrate the various styles. The book also includes brief discussions of the various national styles of organ building, an appendix about the various notational methods used in the 17th century, and a chapter on Spain and Portugal written by Andre Lash, an expert on the subject.
Download or read book A Comprehensive Performance Project in Organ Literature with a Study of Seventeenth century Dutch Keyboard Compositions Based on Genevan Psalm Tunes written by Rudolf Jan Zuiderveld and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organ Literature written by Corliss Richard Arnold and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback! Cloth edition 0-8108-2964-9 originally published in 1995.
Download or read book The Organs of Sense written by Adam Ehrlich Sachs and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is only for people who like joy, absurdity, passion, genius, dry wit, youthful folly, amusing historical arcana, or telescopes." —Rivka Galchen, author of Little Labors and American Innovations In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: at the stroke of noon on June 30 of that year, a solar eclipse will cast all of Europe into total darkness for four seconds. This astronomer is rumored to be using the longest telescope ever built, but he is also known to be blind—and not only blind, but incapable of sight, both his eyes having been plucked out some time before under mysterious circumstances. Is he mad? Or does he, despite this impairment, have an insight denied the other scholars of his day? These questions intrigue the young Gottfried Leibniz—not yet the world-renowned polymath who would go on to discover calculus, but a nineteen-year-old whose faith in reason is shaky at best. Leibniz sets off to investigate the astronomer’s claim, and over the three hours remaining before the eclipse occurs—or fails to occur—the astronomer tells the scholar the haunting and hilarious story behind his strange prediction: a tale that ends up encompassing kings and princes, family squabbles, obsessive pursuits, insanity, philosophy, art, loss, and the horrors of war. Written with a tip of the hat to the works of Thomas Bernhard and Franz Kafka, The Organs of Sense stands as a towering comic fable: a story about the nature of perception, and the ways the heart of a loved one can prove as unfathomable as the stars.
Download or read book Nine Seventeenth Century Organ Transcriptions from the Operas of Lully written by Jean-Baptiste Lully and published by . This book was released on 1963-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musical Cultures in Seventeenth Century Russia written by Claudia R. Jensen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudia R. Jensen presents the first unified study of musical culture in the court and church of Muscovite Russia. Spanning the period from the installation of Patriarch Iov in 1589 to the beginning of Peter the Great's reign in 1694, her book offers detailed accounts of the celebratory musical performances for Russia's first patriarch -- events that were important displays of Russian piety and power. Jensen emphasizes music's varied roles in Muscovite society and the equally varied opinions and influences surrounding it. In an attempt to demystify what has previously been an enigma to Western readers, she paints a clear picture of the dazzling splendor of musical performances and the ways in which 17th-century Muscovites employed music for spiritual enlightenment as well as entertainment.
Download or read book Studies in English Organ Music written by Iain Quinn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in English Organ Music is a collection of essays by expert authors that examines key areas of the repertoire in the history of organ music in England. The essays on repertoire are placed alongside supporting studies in organ building and liturgical practice in order to provide a comprehensive contextualization. An analysis of the symbiotic relationship between the organ, liturgy, and composers reveals how the repertoire has been shaped by these complementary areas and developed through history. This volume is the first collection of specialist studies related to the field of English organ music.
Download or read book Organ Literature Historical survey written by Corliss Richard Arnold and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback! Cloth edition 0-8108-2964-9 originally published in 1995.
Download or read book Roman Organ Music of the Seventeenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christ Church Oxford Music Ms 89 written by Raymond Harrison Kelton and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christ Church Oxford Music Ms 89 written by Raymond Harrison Kelton and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Survey of Organ Literature and Editions written by Marilou Kratzenstein and published by Iowa State Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following survey was written to stimulate organists to explore more deeply the organ literature. The author provides a short historical outline of organ composition in each of the countries that has an organ-playing tradition. Also included are some remarks about the organs of each country since a knowledge of the instruments is important for an understanding of the literature. This book provides a comprehensive overview of organ literature while also furnishing a point of departure for more specialized studies in the history and performance of the various national schools.
Download or read book A Holding Uniting constant Friend written by David Robert Stuart Force and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sixteenth Century And Seventeenth Century Organ Mass written by Clawson Young Cannon and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transposition in Seventeenth Century English Organ Accompaniments and the Transposing Organ written by J. Bunker Clark and published by Detroit : Information Coordinators. This book was released on 1974 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
