Music in the Renaissance
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Author
Publication
2012 - Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Language
English
Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28487481M
- ISBN-139780393929164
- OCLC Control Number807025390
- OCLC Control Numbermusicinrenaissan0000free
- Library of Congress Control Number2012038785
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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