Dr. Rebecca Herissone

Musical Creativity in Restoration England

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Produktbeschreibung

Rebecca Herissone's study is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to the creation of music in late seventeenth-century England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 173mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1072g
• ISBN-13: 9781107014343
• ISBN-10: 1107014344
• Artikelnr.: 37296438

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Herissone was educated at the University of Cambridge and is Senior Lecturer in Musicology and Head of Music at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England (2000) and 'To Fill, Forbear, or Adorne': The Organ Accompaniment of Restoration Sacred Music (2006). She has also produced a critical edition of the treatise Synopsis of Vocal Musick (2006), and edited and contributed to The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell (2012). Recent journal articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society and the Journal of Musicology, and her article for Music and Letters on the scoring of Purcell's Come ye Sons of Art won the Westrup Prize for 2007. She is now a co-editor of the journal. She has written extensively on approaches to composition in late seventeenth-century English music.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Creative Contexts and Principles: 1. Imitation, originality and
authorship; 2. Sources and their functions; Part II. Creative Strategies:
3. 'Ye Fowle Originall in Score': initial invention and the functions of
notation; 4. 'I have here sent ye full Anthems': serial recomposition and
the culture of transmission; 5. 'For Seaverall Friends': private music and
the study of musical texts; 6. 'His mind be filled with the materiall':
arrangement, improvisation and the role of memory.