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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      08 January 2019
      24 January 2019
      ISBN:
      9780511675874
      9780521195942
      9781009166317
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511675874
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1kg, 542 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.77kg, 544 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Music: General Interest
      Series:
      The Cambridge History of Music
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Music
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Music: General Interest
    Series:
    The Cambridge History of Music
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Music
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    Part of the seminal Cambridge History of Music series, this volume departs from standard histories of early modern Western music in two important ways. First, it considers music as something primarily experienced by people in their daily lives, whether as musicians or listeners, and as something that happened in particular locations, and different intellectual and ideological contexts, rather than as a story of genres, individual counties, and composers and their works. Second, by constraining discussion within the limits of a 100-year timespan, the music culture of the sixteenth century is freed from its conventional (and tenuous) absorption within the abstraction of 'the Renaissance', and is understood in terms of recent developments in the broader narrative of this turbulent period of European history. Both an original take on a well-known period in early music and a key work of reference for scholars, this volume makes an important contribution to the history of music.

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    ‘… rich in detail … The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music, in short, invites us to consider these themes, and to revisit the beautiful music of the period with renewed curiosity.’

    Richard Freedman Source: Revue de musicologie

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