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William Byrd and His Contemporaries
Brett, Philip. Ed(S): Kerman, Joseph; Moroney, Davitt
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Description for William Byrd and His Contemporaries
Throughout his distinguished career, Philip Brett wrote about the music of the Tudor period. He carried out pathbreaking work on the life and music of William Byrd (c1540-1628). Collecting these influential essays, this volume is a tribute to Brett's agile mind and to his incomparable skill at synthesizing history and musical analysis. Editor(s): Kerman, Joseph; Moroney, Davitt. Num Pages: 266 pages, 1 table, 30 music examples, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: AVGC2; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 232 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
Throughout his distinguished career, Philip Brett wrote about the music of the Tudor period. He carried out pathbreaking work on the life and music of William Byrd (c.1540-1623), both as an editor and a historian. He also studied other composers working during the period, including John Taverner, Thomas Tallis, Orlando Gibbons, and Thomas Weelkes. Collecting these influential essays together for the first time, this volume is a tribute to Brett's agile mind and to his incomparable skill at synthesizing history and musical analysis. Byrd was a prominent court composer, but also a Catholic. Besides important instrumental music and English songs, ... Read more
Throughout his distinguished career, Philip Brett wrote about the music of the Tudor period. He carried out pathbreaking work on the life and music of William Byrd (c.1540-1623), both as an editor and a historian. He also studied other composers working during the period, including John Taverner, Thomas Tallis, Orlando Gibbons, and Thomas Weelkes. Collecting these influential essays together for the first time, this volume is a tribute to Brett's agile mind and to his incomparable skill at synthesizing history and musical analysis. Byrd was a prominent court composer, but also a Catholic. Besides important instrumental music and English songs, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520247581
SKU
V9780520247581
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About Brett, Philip. Ed(S): Kerman, Joseph; Moroney, Davitt
Philip Brett (1937-2002) was Distinguished Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to dozens of scholarly editions of English Renaissance music and pioneering articles in a wide variety of fields, he is author of Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes and coeditor of Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, Cruising the Performative: Interventions into ... Read more
Reviews for William Byrd and His Contemporaries
"This is superior scholarship that establishes very significant aspects of Byrd's music and its history, and the volume will be an important landmark in Byrd scholarship. The range of methods and subjects itself is admirable; the editors have chosen writings that represent substantial and first-rate study that are either out-of-print or inaccessible. This is an outstanding work." - William Mahrt, ... Read more