Early Music: A Very Short Introduction Kelly Professor Thomas ForrestPaperback
Early Music: A Very Short Introduction Kelly Professor Thomas ForrestPaperback From Gregorian chant to Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both…
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Early Music: A Very Short Introduction Kelly Professor Thomas ForrestPaperback
From Gregorian chant to Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. Kelly shows that the early-music revival has long been grounded in the idea of spontaneity, of excitement, and of recapturing experiences otherwise lost to us--either the rediscovery of little-known repertories or the recovery of lost performing styles, with the conviction that, with the right performance, the music will come to life anew. In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly provides not only a compact overview of the music itself, but also a lively look at the many attempts over the last two centuries to revive it.
Blending musical and social history, he shows how the Early Music movement in the 1960s took on political overtones, fueled by a rebellion against