Dr. Burney as Critic and Historian of Music

Dr. Burney as Critic and Historian of Music
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Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015007949996
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Synopsis Dr. Burney as Critic and Historian of Music by : Kerry Scott Grant

Memoirs of Dr. Charles Burney, 1726-1769

Memoirs of Dr. Charles Burney, 1726-1769
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Publisher : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015036060088
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Synopsis Memoirs of Dr. Charles Burney, 1726-1769 by : Charles Burney

Charles Burney (1726-1814) was one of the foremost music historians of the Enlightenment, a friend of David Garrick, correspondent of Diderot and Rousseau, a champion of Haydn, and a member of the Royal Society. The frequency with which he is still quoted by musicologists and historians attests to the continuing relevance and importance of his work. After completing his monumental General History of Music (1776-89), Burney began to write a projected twelve-volume autobiography, a taska he abandoned in 1805. When he died nearly a decade later, his daughter, the novelist Fanny Burney, edited the manuscript but destroyed much of it before publishing her own bowdlerized Memoirs of Dr. Burney in 1832. Not until the 1950s did fragments of the original memoirs, long believed lost, come to light. This edition reconstructs the fragments from Burney's first volume, free of Fanny Burney's interpolations and alterations. The resulting text is here published for the first time. The restored and uncensored Memoirs of Dr. Charles Burney covers his life from 1726 to 1769, illuminating his early career and the musical and theatrical life of London and the provinces in the mid-eighteenth century. The editors have skillfully bridged the fragments with material from other sources, including Burney's later letters. Their annotations, drawn in part from the articles on music that Burney wrote while he was working on his memoirs, reveal many new details about his world.

Reader's Guide to Music

Reader's Guide to Music
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 928
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ISBN-10 : 9781135942625
ISBN-13 : 1135942625
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Synopsis Reader's Guide to Music by : Murray Steib

The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).

Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9781317092209
ISBN-13 : 1317092201
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Synopsis Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain by : Maria Semi

Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-century culture. From the field of natural philosophy, involving the science of sounds and acoustics, to the realm of imagination, involving resounding music and art, the branches of modern culture that were involved in the intellectual tradition of the science of music proved to be variously appealing to men of letters. Among these, a particularly rich field of investigation was the British philosophy of the mind and of human understanding, developed between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which looked at music and found in its realm a way of understanding human experience. Focussing on the world of sensation - trying to describe how the human mind could develop ideas and emotions by its means - philosophers and physicians often took their cases from art's products, be it music (sounds), painting (colours) or poetry (words as signs of sound conveying a meaning), thus looking at art from a particular point of view: that of the perceiving mind. The relationship between music and the philosophies of mind is presented here as a significant part of the construction of a Science of Man: a huge and impressive 'project' involving both the study of man's nature, to which - in David Hume's words - 'all sciences have a relation', and the creation of an ideal of what Man should be. Maria Semi sheds light on how these reflections moved towards a Science of Music: a complex and articulated vision of the discipline that was later to be known as 'musicology'; or Musikwissenschaft.

The Cunning Man

The Cunning Man
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Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Total Pages : 84
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ISBN-10 : 9780895794000
ISBN-13 : 0895794004
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Synopsis The Cunning Man by : Charles Burney

A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
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Total Pages : 1024
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ISBN-10 : ONB:+Z229202804
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Synopsis A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century by : Samuel Austin Allibone

A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century

A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
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Total Pages : 1202
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106019914305
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Synopsis A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century by : Samuel Austin Allibone

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 1048
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ISBN-10 : 0674372999
ISBN-13 : 9780674372993
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music by : Don Michael Randel

Biographaical dictionary emphisizes classicaland art music; also gives ample attention to the classics as well as Jazz, Blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages.