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Early Music: A Very Short Introduction
Early Music: A Very Short Introduction

Early Music: A Very Short Introduction

Author: 
Thomas Forrest Kelly
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  • A unique and succinct survey of both the history and current study and performance of early Western music (medieval, Renaissance, and baroque)

    
The music of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods have been repeatedly discarded and rediscovered ever since they were new. An interest in music of the past has been characteristic of a part of the musical world since the early 19th century. The revival of Gregorian chant in the early 19th century; the "Cecilian movement" in later 19th-century Germany seeking to immortalize Palestrina's music as a sound-ideal; Mendelssohn's revival of Bach: these are some of the efforts made in the past to restore still earlier music. In recent years this interest has taken on particular meaning, representing two specific trends: first, a rediscovery of little-known underappreciated repertories, and second, an effort to recover lost performing styles, with the conviction that such music will come to life anew with the right performance. Much has been gained in the 20th century from the study and revival of instruments, playing techniques, and repertories. In this VSI, Thomas Forrest Kelly frames chapters on the forms, techniques, and repertories practices of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods with discussion of why old music has been and should be revived, as well as a short history of early music revivals.

Index: 

Acknowledgments
List of illustrations

1. What does “early music” mean?
2. Repertories: Medieval
3. Repertories: Renaissance
4. Repertories: Baroque
5. Performing issues
6. The modern early-music revival
Further reading
Index

About the author: 

Thomas Forrest Kelly, Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music, Harvard University
 
Thomas Forrest Kelly is the Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music at Harvard University. He is the author, among other books, of First Nights (Yale, 2004, named a New York TimesNotable Book of the Year), and First Nights at the Opera (Yale, 2004). He has been president of Early Music America.

"a useful stocking filler ... packs an incredible amount into a pocket format" - Ham & High

Product details

ISBN : 9780199730766

Author: 
Thomas Forrest Kelly
Pages
144 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
112 x 173 mm
Pub date
May 2011
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Early Music: A Very Short Introduction

Early Music: A Very Short Introduction

Early Music: A Very Short Introduction