Malcolm Boyd

Take off the Masks (White Crane Wisdom)

Studie over de werken van de componist (1660-1725), beschouwd tegen de achtergrond van zijn leven en zijn tijd

Master of Music

Domenico Scarlatti

Prayers with Notes on the Humanistic Revolution

Human Like Me, Jesus

William Mathias

Rouget de Lisle's famous anthem, La marseillaise, admirably reflects the confidence and enthusiasm of the early years of the French Revolution. But the effects on music of the Revolution and the events that followed it in France were more far-reaching than that. Hymns, chansons and even articles of the Constitution set to music in the form of vaudevilles all played their part in disseminating Revolutionary ideas and principles; music education was reorganized to compensate for the loss of courtly institutions and the weakened maitrises of cathedrals and churches. Opera, in particular, was profoundly affected, in both its organization and its subject matter, by the events of 1789 and the succeeding decade. The essays in this book, written by specialists in the period, deal with all these aspects of music in Revolutionary France, highlighting the composers and writers who played a major role in the changes that took place there. They also identify some of the traditions and genres that survived the Revolution, and look at the effects on music of Napoleon's invasion of Italy.

Music and the French Revolution

ARE YOU RUNNING WITH ME, JESUS?

Examines the development of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and profiles his life.

Bach

Juan José Carreras

Juan José Carreras López

Juan Jose Carreras Lopez

This volume of essays on Spanish music in the eighteenth century covers stage genres, orchestral and instrumental music and vocal music (both sacred and secular). Traditional musicology has tended to see the Spanish eighteenth century as a period of decline, but this volume shows it to be rich in interest and achievement, and offers a new perspective on the relationship between Spanish music of the period and that of other countries, Italy and Austria in particular.

Music in Spain During the Eighteenth Century

This portrait traces the life of the influential composer through the royal courts, chapels, and concert halls of Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Poland and examines his works and a large number of newly authenticated compositions

Malcolm Boyd

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