Music and the Renaissance: Renaissance, reformation and counter-reformation

This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate brilliantly the complexity of European cultural history in the Renaissance. On the one hand, scholars of this period were inspired by classical narratives on the sublime effects of music and, on the other hand, were affected by the profoun...

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Format: Book
Language:English
German
French
Published: Farnham [u.a.] Ashgate 2011
Series:A library of essays on Renaissance music
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate brilliantly the complexity of European cultural history in the Renaissance. On the one hand, scholars of this period were inspired by classical narratives on the sublime effects of music and, on the other hand, were affected by the profound religious upheavals which destroyed the unity of Western Christianity and, in so doing, opened up new avenues in the world of music. These articles offer as broad a vision as possible of the ways of thinking about music which developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
Item Description:Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. engl., teilw. franz.
Physical Description:XXXIV, 574 S. Ill., Notenbeisp.
ISBN:9780754629283

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