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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"secular music"”.
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Sweelinck's Keyboard Works: A Study of English Elements in Dutch Secular Music of the 'Golden Eeuw.'
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Sacred Vocal Compositions Including Trumpet Parts by Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky (c.1639--1693)
Vejvanovsky's musical style, like the other composers in the Hapsburg territories, is grounded in the principles of rhetoric and based on Italian models. Yet, he is able to inject a refreshing and individual approach to his compositions, particularly in his use of color and harmonic style. His …
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Secular urban musical culture in Provence and Languedoc during the late Middle Ages
… prominent role in the history of medieval secular music, scholarship concerning its urban musical culture is generally limited to a few publications by nineteenth-century local historians; in contrast, several recent comprehensive studies building on scholarship of the past two centuries …
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Selected Lute Music from Paris, Rés. Vmd. Ms. 27 from the Bibliothèque Nationale: Reconstruction, Edition, and Commentary
… is one of the earliest extant sources of lute music, containing twenty-four solos and eighty-six accompaniments for vocal compositions. The manuscript was copied in Italian lute tablature lacking rhythm signs, which makes it inaccessible for modern performance. Each selection contains a full …
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Sacred Music in Public Schools: A Historical Consideration of Policy and Practice
… of religion or religious beliefs. (2) The music selected for use in public school classrooms must support musical learning objectives. To the greatest extent possible, music should be chosen objectively, for its educational merit, not for its religious significance. (3) Religious music …
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A Century of Music Production in Durham City 1711-1811: A Documentary Study.
… that were frequently held in the city. For a musician, these public events provided ample opportunities to make a living. There were also opportunities to teach the children of wealthy patrons and to publish compositions. In consequence a large number of musicians came to the city, either to …
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To Play Jewish Again: Roots, Counterculture, and the Klezmer Revival
Klezmer, a type of Eastern European Jewish secular music brought to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century, originally functioned as accompaniment to Jewish wedding ritual celebrations. In the late 1970s, a group of primarily Jewish musicians sought inspiration for a renewal of …
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The influence of klezmer on twentieth-century solo and chamber concert music for clarinet: with three recitals of selected works of Manevich, Debussy, Horovitz, Milhaud, Martino, Mozart and others.
The secular music of the Eastern European Jews is known today as klezmer. Klezmer was the traditional instrumental celebratory music of Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews who eventually populated the Pale of Settlement, which encompassed modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus and Romania. Due …
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Heinrich Bewerunge (1862–1923): A Critical Reassessment of His Life and Influence
… Bewerunge is acknowledged internationally as a musician and scholar of exceptional ability, but to date there has been limited detailed engagement with his work and influence. This thesis reassesses his status in Ireland and abroad, through an examination and analysis of primary sources …
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The (un)Natural Baroque: Giambattista Marino and Monteverdi's Late Madrigals
… saw an important aesthetic shift in Italian secular music. The madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) have often been seen to bridge the gap between the Renaissance and the Baroque since they introduced instrumental writing and operatic elements into a traditionally vocal genre. There is …
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Musical and Religious Experiences: Their Relationship and Influences on Humanity
… will investigate the relationship between musical and religious experiences and the similarities that have made them such emotionally-charging phenomena. Because of the power of music and religion to promote feelings of happiness, lucidity, and escape from everyday living, both have …
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Liszt as Prophet: Religion, Politics, and Artists in 1830s Paris
… poet-statesman Alphonse de Lamartine, and the musician and mystic Chrétien Urhan. Of all the important figures Liszt encountered during this period, Lamennais, Lamartine and Urhan stand apart in their pursuit of a prophetic mission, whether in religion, politics, art, or a combination thereof. …
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Carlo Milanuzzi's Quarto Scherzo and the Climate of Venetian Popular Music in the 1620s
Although music publishing in Italy was on the decline around the turn of the seventeenth century, Venice emerged as one of the most prolific publishing centers of secular song in Italy throughout the first three decades of the 1600s. Many Venetian song collections were printed with alfabeto, a …