Publication

2012 - Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Language

English

Word Count

80,000 words, Guess

Page Count

320 pages

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Classifications

  • LCCML172.F74 2013

Description

Richard Freedman's Music in the Renaissance shows how music and other forms of expression were adapted to changing tastes and ideals in Renaissance courts and churches. Giving due weight to sacred, secular, and instrumental genres, Freedman invites readers to consider who made music, who sponsored and listened to it, who preserved and owned it, and what social and aesthetic purposes it served. While focusing on broad themes such as music and the literary imagination and the art of improvisation, he also describes Europeans' musical encounters with other cultures and places [Publisher description]

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