Essays On Music Of The French Baroque

Author : David Whitwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936512843
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book Essays on Music of the French Baroque written by David Whitwell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of the new form, Opera, the previous two centuries of musicology have tended to present the Baroque Period, 1600-1750, as a period of functional, even mechanical, music.The contemporary discussion in this volume will help the reader understand that nothing could be further from the truth.The great interest of most musicians living in the Baroque Period was the role of emotion in music both in composition and in performance.The role of all idioms of performance, including especially improvisation, were directly associated with the goal of increased communication of emotion.We believe these pages will suggest to the reader that no player of the Baroque Period ever just played what he saw on paper, and we don't believe anyone should do so today."

Author : John Hajdu Heyer
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque written by John Hajdu Heyer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James R. Anthony
Publisher : Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Download or read book Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque written by James R. Anthony and published by Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-02-09 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honours the distinguished French baroque scholar James R. Anthony. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV, served as the principal architect of what would become known as the French style of music in the baroque era. The style he created strongly influenced the great musical figures in England (Purcell and Handel) and Germany (Bach and Telemann), but Lully's music itself has received little attention. Recently, through the efforts of scholars and musicians concerned with the performance practices of Lully's time, Lully's own music has begun to come alive in performance and recording. These essays, all by important baroque specialists, cover significant aspects of Lully's life and works and the French tradition he influenced. They constitute the first post-war collection of studies centred on Lully and form a fitting tribute to Professor Anthony whose own French baroque music provided a stimulus for the work of an emerging generation of scholars.

Author : John Hajdu Heyer
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque written by John Hajdu Heyer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Cyr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Performance of Baroque Music written by Mary Cyr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using composers' own notations, marks added by 18th-century performers, historical treatises, and pictorial evidence, this work investigates both vocal and instrumental genres, including opera, cantatas, instrumental chamber music, and solo music for the viol and violin. It also deals with the discovery of a cantata by Rameau.

Author : James R. Anthony
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521352635
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque written by James R. Anthony and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-02-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honours the distinguished French baroque scholar James R. Anthony. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV, served as the principal architect of what would become known as the French style of music in the baroque era. The style he created strongly influenced the great musical figures in England (Purcell and Handel) and Germany (Bach and Telemann), but Lully's music itself has received little attention. Recently, through the efforts of scholars and musicians concerned with the performance practices of Lully's time, Lully's own music has begun to come alive in performance and recording. These essays, all by important baroque specialists, cover significant aspects of Lully's life and works and the French tradition he influenced. They constitute the first post-war collection of studies centred on Lully and form a fitting tribute to Professor Anthony whose own French baroque music provided a stimulus for the work of an emerging generation of scholars.

Author : Mary Cyr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317048822
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music written by Mary Cyr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Cyr addresses the needs of researchers, performers, and informed listeners who wish to apply knowledge about historically informed performance to specific pieces. Special emphasis is placed upon the period 1680 to 1760, when the viol, violin, and violoncello grew to prominence as solo instruments in France. Part I deals with the historical background to the debate between the French and Italian styles and the features that defined French style. Part II summarizes the present state of research on bowed string instruments (violin, viola, cello, contrebasse, pardessus de viole, and viol) in France, including such topics as the size and distribution of parts in ensembles and the role of the contrebasse. Part III addresses issues and conventions of interpretation such as articulation, tempo and character, inequality, ornamentation, the basse continue, pitch, temperament, and "special effects" such as tremolo and harmonics. Part IV introduces four composer profiles that examine performance issues in the music of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin Marais, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, and the Forquerays (father and son). The diversity of compositional styles among this group of composers, and the virtuosity they incorporated in their music, generate a broad field for discussing issues of performance practice and offer opportunities to explore controversial themes within the context of specific pieces.

Author : David Whitwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936512836
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book Essays on Music of the German Baroque written by David Whitwell and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of the new form, Opera, the previous two centuries of musicology have tended to present the Baroque Period, 1600-1750, as a period of functional, even mechanical, music.The contemporary discussion in this volume will help the reader understand that nothing could be further from the truth.The great interest of most musicians living in the Baroque Period was the role of emotion in music both in composition and in performance.The role of all idioms of performance, including especially improvisation, were directly associated with the goal of increased communication of emotion.We believe these pages will suggest to the reader that no player of the Baroque Period ever just played what he saw on paper, and we don't believe anyone should do so today."

Author : James R. Anthony
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574670219
Total Pages : 604 pages
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Download or read book French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau written by James R. Anthony and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1974, this landmark work quickly established itself as the definitive study of French music from 1581 to 1733, a period that included masters such as Marin Marais, Lully, Couperin, and Rameau. This expanded edition includes a bibliography of more than 1,300 works.

Author : Caroline Wood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317132769
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book French Baroque Opera: A Reader written by Caroline Wood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the outset, French opera generated an enormous diversity of literature, familiarity with which greatly enhances our understanding of this unique art form. Yet relatively little of that literature is available in English, despite an upsurge of interest in the Lully-Rameau period during the past two decades. This book presents a wide-ranging and informative picture of the organization and evolution of French Baroque opera, its aims and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on official documents, theoretical writings, letters, diaries, dictionary entries, contemporary reviews and commentaries, it provides an often entertaining insight into Lully’s once-proud Royal Academy of Music and the colourful characters who surrounded it. The translated passages are set in context, and readers are directed to further scholarly and critical writings in English. Readers will find this new, updated edition easier to use with its revised and expanded translations, supplementary explanatory content and new illustrations.