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Das Hamburger Antiphonar ND VI 471: Ein wiederentdecktes Musikdenkmal aus dem 15. Jahrhundert aus dem Hamburger Dom. Einführung - Edition - Faksimile
by Viacheslav Kartsovnik, edited by Jürgen Neubacher
English summary: The antiphonary ND VI 471 was created in the 15th Century and encompasses two layers with a total of 19 pages. It possibly served as a template (exemplum) as used in, among other things, scriptoria. In particular, two songs of great artistic value, which are preserved only here, draw from this oldest and most complete extant music manuscript. Therefore, this antiphonary is of outstanding importance for both Hamburg's and ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00

Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America
edited by Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Sala
In this book, twenty-four scholars investigate the relationship between music and dictatorship in twentieth-century Europe and Latin America. The music is explored as a political phenomenon in fifteen nations under totalitarian regimes: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, and Hungary. Historical and aesthetical articles face both individual people (for instance, Chavez, ...
Hardback. Price GB £109.00

Figured Bass Accompaniment in France (SMUS 6)
by Robert Zappulla
This comprehensive study basse continue practice supplements an already sizeable body of literature on thorough bass accompaniment, the emphasis of which has clearly been Italian and German theoretical works. The numerous French accompaniment treatises written during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries seem to have been, with only a few choice exceptions, unjustifiably dismissed by many modern scholars as little more than harmonic tutors, and the ...
Hardback. Price GB £52.50

Beyond Notes: Improvisation in Western Music in the 18th and 19th Centuries
edited by Rudolf Rasch
Improvisation is an important aspect of music, not only in jazz and other improvised music, but also of classical music. Pianists may add improvised interludes to their recitals and cadenzas to a concerto they perform. They may conclude their recitals by playing compositions composed on the spot, freely invented or on themes handed to them by the public. Violinists and other instrumentalists may do the same. Singers may add embellishments to ...
Hardback. Price GB £85.00

Nicolò Paganini: Diabolus in Musica
edited by A. Barizza and F. Morabito
Paganini is considered to be the greatest violin virtuosos of all time. He was a virtuoso who relied on the astonishment that he aroused in those who heard him. One of the criticisms that he himself addressed to other violinists was that they failed to 'surprise' the audience. Paganini, on the other hand, succeeded, but to what extent? Much was due to the improvisational side of his music. Whenever he played, he was unable to perform a piece ...
Hardback. Price GB £88.00

A Late Medieval Songbook and its Context: New Perspectives on the Chantilly Codex (Bibliotheque du Chateau de Chantilly, Ms. 564)
edited by Y. Plumley and A. Stone
Table of Contents : Yolanda Plumley and Anne Stone, Introduction. I . Reading the Repertory. Virginia Newes, Deception, Reversal, and Paradox. The Rondeaux of the Chantilly Codex in Context - Gilles Dulong, En relisant Solage - Elizabeth Eva Leach, Dead Famous: Mourning, Machaut, Music, and Renown in the Chantilly Codex - Gilles Dulong and Agathe Sultan, Nouvelles lectures des chansons notées ...
Paperback. Price GB £62.00

Medieval Ritual and Early Modern Music: The Devotional Practice of Lauda Singing in Late-Renaissance Italy
by Eyolf Ostrem and Nils Holger Petersen
The polyphonic lauda had its place of prominence in the lay devotional confraternities in Italian cities in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. A main theme of this volume is the influence of art music in devotional contexts dominated by ritual functionality, where a modern aesthetic perspective is rarely employed. The authors raise fundamental questions about the validity of such a distinction between functional simplicity ...
Hardback. Price GB £51.00

Selva Armonica: La Musica Spirituale e Roma tra Cinque e Seicento
by Daniele Filippi
Taking its cue from certain general features of the cultural history and from a strong focus on the theatre of events, this work first examines the theoretical background to the relationship between music and spirituality (from Augustine to the 'musical' mystics of the Middle Ages), then verifies its resonance in the post-Tridentine era - a period that distinguished itself for the ways in which it united singing with catechesis, art with prayer, ...
Hardback. Price GB £105.00

Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece (1945-1975)
by Dimitris Papnikolaou
Between 1945 and 1975, both France and Greece developed an interplay between literature and popular music, each making a new national canon. Literature provided the aesthetic criteria, the cultural prestige and the institutional basis for what aspired to be a higher form of popular song. Published poems were turned into popular songs, while a critical discourse, in return, celebrated songwriters not only for being as good as poets, but for being ...
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Il 'concerto grosso' romano: nuove prospettive storiche e storiografiche
by A. Pavanello
In this work the author discusses the concept of the concerto grosso genre associated with the Roman musical environment as it has been represented in the specialist studies written over the last thirty years. Thanks to the close examination of specific aspects connected with the transmission of the music in the 17th/18th-century Roman milieu, and above all in connection with the division of the orchestra into parts for concertino and concerto ...
Hardback. Price GB £88.00