The Guitar In Stuart England

Author : Christopher Page
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110841978X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guitar in Stuart England written by Christopher Page and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guitar is the most played instrument in the West. This is the first account of its rise in Stuart England.

Author : Christopher Page
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108331114
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guitar in Stuart England written by Christopher Page and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first history of the guitar during the reign of the Stuarts, a time of great political and social upheaval in England. In this engaging and original volume, Christopher Page gathers a rich array of portraits, literary works and other, previously unpublished, archival materials in order to create a comprehensive picture of the guitar from its early appearances in Jacobean records, through its heyday at the Restoration court in Whitehall, to its decline in the first decades of the eighteenth century. The book explores the passion of Charles II himself for the guitar, and that of Samuel Pepys, who commissioned the largest repertoire of guitar-accompanied song to survive from baroque Europe. Written in Page's characteristically approachable style, this volume will appeal to general readers as well as to music historians and guitar specialists.

Author : Christopher Page
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030021247X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guitar in Georgian England written by Christopher Page and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating social history of the guitar, reasserting its long-forgotten importance in Romantic England This book is the first to explore the popularity and novelty of the guitar in Georgian England, noting its impact on the social, cultural, and musical history of the period. The instrument possessed an imagery as rich as its uses were varied; it emerged as a potent symbol of Romanticism and was incorporated into poetry, portraiture, and drama. In addition, British and Irish soldiers returning from war in Spain and Portugal brought with them knowledge of the Spanish guitar and its connotations of stylish masculinity. Christopher Page presents entirely new scholarship in order to place the guitar within a multifaceted context, drawing from recently digitized original source material. The Guitar in Georgian England champions an instrument whose importance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is often overlooked.

Author : Christopher Page
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1837650330
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe written by Christopher Page and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book devoted to the composers, instrument makers and amateur players who advanced the great guitar vouge throughout Western Europe during the early decades of the nineteenth century.Contemporary critics viewed the fashion for the guitar with sheer hostility, seeing in it a rejection of true musical value. After all, such trends advanced against the grain of mainstream musical developments of ground-breaking (often Austro-German) repertoire for standard instruments. Yet amateur musicians throughout Europe persisted; many instruments were built to meet the demand, a substantial volume of music was published for amateurs to play, and soloist-composers moved freely between European cities. This book follows these lines of travel venturing as far as Moscow, and visiting all the great musical cities of the period, from London to Vienna, Madrid to Naples. The first section of the book looks at eighteenth-century precedents, the instrument - its makers and owners, amateur and professional musicians, printing and publishing, pedagogy, as well as aspects of repertoire. The second section explores the extensive repertoire for accompanied song and chamber music. A final substantive section assembles chapters on a wide array of the most significant soloist-composers of the time. The chapters evoke the guitar milieu in the various cities where each composer-player worked and offer a discussion of some representative works. This book, bringing together an international tally of contributors and never before examined sources, will be of interest to devotees of the guitar, as well as music historians of the Romantic period.

Author : Bill Swick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197609805
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building an Award-Winning Guitar Program written by Bill Swick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was 2005, and I was sitting in a large ballroom with over a thousand other music educators in the convention center for the Music Educators National Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when we were told that music education was in crisis. Student enrollment in music classes like band, choir, and orchestra were dropping at an alarming rate nation-wide. Music educators were going to lose their jobs if they could not figure out ways to attract students into their classrooms. The message was clear: we needed to start considering all types of alternatives such as guitar, music technology, Mariachi, blue grass, rock band, song writing, music theory, hand bells-any type of music class that would attract students and save jobs"--

Author : Christopher Page
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107108365
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guitar in Tudor England written by Christopher Page and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the most popular instrument in the world as it was in the age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare.

Author : Joseph P. Swain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538151626
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music written by Joseph P. Swain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Library Journal Best Reference of 2023 - "Bravo! An invaluable source for scholars and concertgoers.” - Library Journal In the history of the Western musical tradition, the Baroque period traditionally dates from the turn of the 17th century to 1750. The beginning of the period is marked by Italian experiments in composition that attempted to create a new kind of secular musical art based upon principles of Greek drama, quickly leading to the invention of opera. The ending is marked by the death of Johann Sebastian Bach in 1750 and the completion of George Frideric Handel’s last English oratorio, Jephtha, the following year. The Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on composers, instruments, cities, and technical terms. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about baroque music.

Author : James Rovira
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000688836
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism written by James Rovira and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism is the first book-length work to explore the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and literature by women and men. The music and videos of contemporary musicians including Erykah Badu, Beyoncé, The Carters, Hélène Cixous, Missy Elliot, the Indigo Girls, Janet Jackson, Janis Joplin (and Big Brother and the Holding Company), Natalie Merchant, Joni Mitchell, Janelle Monáe, Alanis Morrisette, Siouxsie Sioux, Patti Smith, St. Vincent (Annie Clark), and Alice Walker are explored through the lenses of pastoral and Afropresentism, Gothic, female Gothic, and the literature of William Blake, Beethoven, Arthur Schopenhauer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Dacre, Ralph Waldo Emerson, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ann Radcliffe, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, her husband Percy Shelley, Henry David Thoreau, Horace Walpole, Jane Williams, Mary Wollstonecraft, and William Wordsworth to explore how each sheds light on the other, and how women have appropriated, responded to, and been inspired by the work of authors from previous centuries.

Author : Stuart Ryan
Publisher : WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com
ISBN 13 : 9781789332025
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Americana Guitar Book written by Stuart Ryan and published by WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Americana Guitar Book introduces you to every essential technique that will enhance your musical palette on both acoustic and electric guitar... from Travis and Carter picking, to slide licks and raucous electric guitar work.

Author : Richard T. Pinnell
Publisher : U M I Research Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Francesco Corbetta and the Baroque Guitar written by Richard T. Pinnell and published by U M I Research Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: