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Christopher Page – The Christian West and It’s Singers

  By Luís Henriques | 15 de Maio de 2013 - 5:09 pm | ,
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The Christian West and It’s Singers: The First 1000 Years

A renowned scholar and musician presents a new and innovative exploration of the beginnings of Western musical art. Beginning in the time of the New Testament, when Christians began to develop an art of ritual singing with an African and Asian background, Christopher Page traces the history of music in Europe through the development of Gregorian chant – a music that has profoundly influenced the way Westerners hear – to the invention of the musical staff, regarded as the fundamental technology of Western music. (mais…)

Charles Rosen – Music and Sentiment

  By Luís Henriques | 12 de Dezembro de 2012 - 12:56 pm | ,
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How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the composition, performance, and appreciation of music, rarely have these elements been fully observed. In this succinct and penetrating book, Charles Rosen draws upon more than a half century as a performer and critic to reveal how composers from Bach to Berg have used sound to represent and communicate emotion in mystifyingly beautiful ways. (mais…)

Charles Rosen – The Classical Style

  By Luís Henriques | 11 de Dezembro de 2012 - 8:56 pm |
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A reissue of a masterpiece by a world-class pianist and top-rank thinkernow expanded and with a compact disc. This outstanding book focusing on the three most-beloved composers of the Vienna School is considered basic to any study of the music from their era. Drawing on his rich experience and intimate familiarity with the works of these giants, Charles Rosen presents his keen insights in language that is clear, persuasive, and nontechnical. (mais…)

Lewis, Mary (ed.) – Sources and the Circulation of Renaissance Music

  By Luís Henriques | 14 de Novembro de 2012 - 10:05 am | ,
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This volume explores the means and motives for the distribution of music during the Renaissance. Music in the fifteenth century was available almost exclusively through manuscript copies, while the introduction of the printing of polyphonic music at the beginning of the sixteenth century profoundly changed the circulation of music. (mais…)

Wilson, David (ed.) – Georg Muffat on Performance Practice

  By Luís Henriques | 20 de Outubro de 2012 - 10:19 am | ,
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“…a fascinating overall impression of the day-to-day concerns and working environment of a professional musician of the late 17th century.” – American Recorder

This volume presents Muffat’s texts along with variants from his own editions in other languages. Wilson’s highly readable supplementary materials make this a useful work for theorists, historians, and performers. The book is particularly enlightening on differences between French and German practice. Treats pitch, ornamentation, bowing, and more. (mais…)

Michael Talbot – The Vivaldi Compendium

  By Luís Henriques | 17 de Setembro de 2012 - 9:33 am | ,
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The Vivaldi Compendium will serve as the most reliable and up-to-date source of quick reference on the composer Antonio Vivaldi and his music. This takes the form of a dictionary listing persons, places, musical works and many other topics connected with Vivaldi; its alphabetically arranged entries are copiously cross-referenced so as to guide the reader towards related topics. The Vivaldi Compendium also provides a gateway to further reading. This is achieved via an extensive bibliography, to which reference is made in most of the dictionary entries. These two sections are complemented by an article-length biography of the composer and a carefully organized list of his works. (mais…)