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Richard Freedman's Music in the Renaissance shows how music and other forms of expression were adapted to changing tastes and ideals in Renaissance courts and churches. Giving due weight to sacred, secular, and instrumental genres, Freedman invites readers to consider who made music, who sponso...
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Western music in context : a Norton history
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Richard Freedman's Music in the Renaissance shows how music and other forms of expression were adapted to changing tastes and ideals in Renaissance courts and churches. Giving due weight to sacred, secular, and instrumental genres, Freedman invites readers to consider who made music, who sponsored and listened to it, who preserved and owned it, and what social and aesthetic purposes it served. While focusing on broad themes such as music and the literary imagination and the art of improvisation, he also describes Europeans' musical encounters with other cultures and places [Publisher descrip |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 258, A27 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780393929164 (pbk.) : 0393929167 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | ML172 |
| CLC: | J609.13 |
| Call Number: | J609.13/F853 |
| Contents: | Music and the cultures of the Renaissance -- Learning to be a musician -- Music at court and a songbook for Beatrice -- Piety, devotion, and ceremony -- Structures and symbols in cantus firmus and canon -- Number, medicine, and magic -- Music and the ideal courtier -- Josquin de Prez and the "perfect art" -- Scribes, printers, and owners -- Music and the literary imagination -- Music and the crisis of belief -- The arts of improvisation, embellishment, and variation -- Empire, exploration, and encounter -- Tradition and innovation around 1600 -- Glossary. |