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The Cultural Life of the Early Polyphonic Mass - Medieval Context to Modern Revival (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,286
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The Cultural Life of the Early Polyphonic Mass - Medieval Context to Modern Revival (Hardcover): Andrew Kirkman

The Cultural Life of the Early Polyphonic Mass - Medieval Context to Modern Revival (Hardcover)

Andrew Kirkman

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The 'cyclic' polyphonic Mass has long been seen as the pre-eminent musical genre of the late Middle Ages, spawning some of the most impressive and engrossing musical edifices of the period. Modern study of these compositions has greatly enhanced our appreciation of their construction and aesthetic appeal. Yet close consideration of their meaning - cultural, social, spiritual, personal - for their composers and original users has begun only much more recently. This book considers the genre both as an expression of the needs of the society in which it arose and as a fulfilment of aesthetic priorities that arose in the wake of the Enlightenment. From this dual perspective, it aims to enhance both our appreciation of the genre for today's world, and our awareness of what it is that makes any cultural artefact endure: its susceptibility to fulfil the different evaluative criteria, and social needs, of different times.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2010
First published: 2010
Authors: Andrew Kirkman
Dimensions: 257 x 182 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-11412-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)
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LSN: 0-521-11412-8
Barcode: 9780521114127

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