From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century 9781351566254, 9780754604037, 1351566253

From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century [1 ed.] 0754604039, 9780754604037

Historians of instruments and instrumental music have long recognised that there was a period of profound change in the

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Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America 9780271079462

Although Americans have shown interest in Italian Baroque art since the eighteenth century—Thomas Jefferson bought copie

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Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music 9780520952065

In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affect

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Musical instruments from the Renaissance to the 19th century (Cameo) 0600359204, 9780600359203

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Music in the Seventeenth Century [Not Indicated] 0521262909, 9780521262903

The seventeenth century was a period of profound change in the history of music. In this volume Lorenzo Bianconi conside

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Renaissance humanism and ethnicity before race: The Irish and the English in the seventeenth century 9781526102645

Examines how the elite in early modern Ireland spoke about human societies and human bodies, and demonstrates that this

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Instrumental Teaching in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) 1840146559, 9781840146554, 9780754681731

It is a truth widely acknowledged that, while part of a uniquely diverse and vibrant musical environment, the achievemen

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Magic and Natural Science in German Baroque Literature: A Study in the Prose Forms of the Later Seventeenth Century 9780231885928

Looks at the attitude toward the natural sciences expressed in German Baroque prose to indicate to what extent the Germa

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Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach. [1ST ed.] 0393097455, 9780393097450

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increas

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Magical Imaginations: Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance 9781442693951

With this new understanding of early modern magic, and a fresh context for compelling readings of classic literary works

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