| The Oxford History of English Music: Volume 1: From the Beginnings to C.1715 Contributor(s): Caldwell, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198161298 ISBN-13: 9780198161295 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1992 Annotation: This first volume of a magisterial two-volume survey of English music charts its development from its beginnings to about 1715. It looks at the music of early monastic institutions and the development of polyphony, including the extraordinarily advanced mid-thirteenth-century canon, "Sumeris icumen in." It deals with the first Golden Age of English music, namely the mid-fifteenth-century composers represented in the Old Hall Manuscript, such as Dunstable and Power. It looks at the remarkable flowering of sixteenth-century choral music, of which Tallis's 'Spem in Alium' is a splendid example. And it charts the rise of the carol, the madrigal, and the seventeenth-century opera and masque and instrumental music, culminating in the genius of Henry Purcell. A well-balanced, judicious survey, with a unity of style and outlook resulting from its single author, the book makes a discussion of the actual music the focus of each chapter, without excluding social and historical comment. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Reference - Music | Genres & Styles - International - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 780.942 |
| LCCN: 90014229 |
| Physical Information: 1.75" H x 6" W x 9" (2.71 lbs) 708 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This first volume of a magisterial two-volume survey of English music charts its development from its beginnings to about 1715. It looks at the music of early monastic institutions and the development of polyphony, including the extraordinarily advanced mid-thirteenth-century canon, Sumeris icumen in. It deals with the first Golden Age of English music, namely the mid-fifteenth-century composers represented in the Old Hall Manuscript, such as Dunstable and Power. It looks at the remarkable flowering of sixteenth-century choral music, of which Tallis's 'Spem in Alium' is a splendid example. And it charts the rise of the carol, the madrigal, and the seventeenth-century opera and masque and instrumental music, culminating in the genius of Henry Purcell. A well-balanced, judicious survey, with a unity of style and outlook resulting from its single author, the book makes a discussion of the actual music the focus of each chapter, without excluding social and historical comment. |