Charles E. Brewer

The Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat and their Contemporaries (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on primary sources, many of which have never been published or examined in detail, this book examines the music of the late seventeenth-century composers, Biber, Schmeltzer and Muffat, and the compositions preserved in the extensive Moravian archives in Kromeriz.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351887595
• Artikelnr.: 49366147

Autorenporträt

Charles E. Brewer is Associate Professor of Musicology at The College of Music of The Florida State University and Director of the Early Music Ensembles. His research interests have focused on the broader questions of music and culture both during the Middle Ages and Baroque period. Beginning with his dissertation on the music of medieval Poland, much of his published work has been focused on the early music of Central and East Central Europe. He has worked in many of the archives and libraries in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia with the support of the Fulbright-Hays Commission, the International Research and Exchanges Board, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is also an avid performer on early keyboard instruments and is currently editing a number of unpublished sonatas by C.P.E. Bach.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Stylus Phantasticus and Stylus Hyporchematicus: concepts of instrumental music in late 17th-century Central and East-Central Europe
Johann Heinrich Schmeltzer (c.1620/23-80) and music at the Viennese court
The chapel of Prince-Bishop Carl Liechtenstein-Castelcorn
Biber and Muffat at Salzburg
The dissemination and dissolution of the Stylus Phantasticus
Appendices
Select bibliography
Index.