Author: David PintoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chamber music
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
For Ye Violls
Author: David PintoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chamber music
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music
Author: Michael FlemingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317147154
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize Musical repertory of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace (1676) who says that ’Your Best Provision’ for playing such music is a chest of old English viols, and he names five early English viol makers than which ’there are no Better in the World’. Enlightened scholars and performers (both professional and amateur) who aim to understand and play this music require reliable historical information and need suitable viols, but so little is known about the instruments and their makers that we cannot specify appropriate instruments with much precision. Our ignorance cannot be remedied exclusively by the scrutiny or use of surviving antique viols because they are extremely rare, they are not accessible to performers and the information they embody is crucially compromised by degradation and alteration. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence including the surviving instruments, music composed for those instruments, and the documentary evidence surrounding the trade of instrument making, Fleming and Bryan draw significant conclusions about the changing nature and varieties of viol in early modern England.
Royalist Identities
Author: Jerome de GrootPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230502059
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Royalist Identities shifts the emphasis from the question 'What is Royalism?' to 'What did Royalism want to be?' The texts analyzed show how Royalism was concerned with the construction of a set of binary roles and behavioural models designed to perpetuate a certain paradigm of social stability. de Groot deploys theories of identity to analyze the literature and culture of this important period- including the works of Milton, Marvell, Herrick and Cowley, amongst others - and in particular to discuss the formation and construction of an ideologically inflected cultural and social identity.
Musical Magazine and Musical Courier
Author: The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher
Author: Francis BeaumontLife After Death
Author: Peter HolmanPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843835746
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
New research throws light on the history of the viol after Purcell, including its revival in the late eighteenth century through Charles Frederick Abel.
For the Violls
Author: David Pinto (musicus)Journal of the Viola Da Gamba Society of America
Author: Viola da Gamba Society of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
William Lawes (1602-1645)
Author: Andrew AshbeePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429766076
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
First published in 1998, this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of his death. They examine not only Lawes’s music but the milieu in which he worked. Part One examines the musical life of the English Court in Lawes’s day, noting his activities there and his involvement with companies of players. Manuscript studies and a detailed account of the fatal battle are also included. Part Two comprises seven essays exploring the wide range of his instrumental and vocal music. William Lawes is acknowledged as the most exciting and innovative composer working in England during the reign of Charles I. His tragic early death at the Siege of Chester in 1645 only served to heighten his reputation among his contemporaries, lending him also the cloak of martyrdom in the service of his king.
The Viola da Gamba Society Index of Manuscripts Containing Consort Music
Author: Robert ThompsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351144820
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Volume II of The Viola da Gamba Society Index of Manuscripts Containing Consort Music includes manuscripts associated with John Browne (Clerk of the Parliaments), Philip Falle (prebendary at Durham), Sir Gabriel Roberts, John St Barbe of Broadlands, the Withy family of Worcester and Oxford and an anonymous late-seventeenth century scribe. As well as a detailed inventory of every manuscript (with anonymous works identified where possible), the descriptions include information on date, size, binding, paper, rastra, watermarks, collations, scripts, inscriptions and provenance, together with bibliographical references. Brief notes on the owners and copyists are provided. Of particular importance is the inclusion of facsimiles of all hands.