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British Music, Musicians and Institutions, c. 1630-1800 - Essays in Honour of Harry Diack Johnstone (Hardcover)
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British Music, Musicians and Institutions, c. 1630-1800 - Essays in Honour of Harry Diack Johnstone (Hardcover)
Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000
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Building upon the developing picture of the importance of British
music, musicians and institutions during the eighteenth century,
this book investigates the themes of composition, performance
(amateur and professional) and music-printing, within the wider
context of social, religious and secular institutions. British
music in the era from the death of Henry Purcell to the so-called
'Musical Renaissance' of the late nineteenth century was once
considered barren. This view has been overturned in recent years
through a better-informed historical perspective, able to recognise
that all kinds of British musical institutions continued to
flourish, and not only in London. The publication, performance and
recording of music by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British
composers, supplemented by critical source-studies and scholarly
editions, shows forms of music that developed in parallel with
those of Britain's near neighbours. Indigenous musicians mingled
with migrant musicians from elsewhere, yet there remained strands
of British musical culture that had no continental equivalent.
Music, vocal and instrumental, sacred and secular, flourished
continuously throughout the Stuart and Hanoverian monarchies.
Composers such as Eccles, Boyce, Greene, Croft, Arne and Hayes were
not wholly overshadowed by European imports such as Handel and J.
C. Bach. The present volume builds on this developing picture of
the importance of British music, musicians and institutions during
the period. Leading musicologists investigate themes such as
composition, performance (amateur and professional), and
music-printing, within the wider context of social, religious and
secular institutions.
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