Early Music: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Early Music: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780199730766

ISBN-10: 0199730768

ISBN-13: 9780199730766

Edition: 2011

Authors: Thomas Forrest Kelly

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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 effortsmade 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,…

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List price: $8.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/9/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 4.41" wide x 6.81" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Thomas Forrest Kelly is professor of music at Harvard University.



List of illustrations



What does "early music" mean?



Repertories: Medieval



Repertories: Renaissance



Repertories: Baroque



Performing issues



The modern early-music revival


Further reading


Index