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Early Music: A Very Short Introduction
Thomas Forrest Kelly
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Description for Early Music: A Very Short Introduction
Paperback. In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly frames chapters on the forms, techniques, and repertories of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods with discussion of why old music has been and should be revived, along with a short history of early music revivals. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 10 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: AVGC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 114 x 178 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130.
The music of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods have been repeatedly discarded and rediscovered ever since they were new. An interest in music of the past has been characteristic of a part of the musical world since the early 19th century. The revival of Gregorian chant in the early 19th century; the "Cecilian movement" in later 19th-century Germany seeking to immortalize Palestrina's music as a sound-ideal; Mendelssohn's revival of Bach: these are some of the efforts made in the past to restore still earlier music. In recent years this interest has taken on particular meaning, representing two specific trends: ... Read more
The music of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods have been repeatedly discarded and rediscovered ever since they were new. An interest in music of the past has been characteristic of a part of the musical world since the early 19th century. The revival of Gregorian chant in the early 19th century; the "Cecilian movement" in later 19th-century Germany seeking to immortalize Palestrina's music as a sound-ideal; Mendelssohn's revival of Bach: these are some of the efforts made in the past to restore still earlier music. In recent years this interest has taken on particular meaning, representing two specific trends: ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Very Short Introductions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199730766
SKU
V9780199730766
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About Thomas Forrest Kelly
Thomas Forrest Kelly is the Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music at Harvard University. He is the author, among other books, of First Nights (Yale, 2004, named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), and First Nights at the Opera (Yale, 2004). He has been president of Early Music America.
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