Music in the Renaissance
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780393929164
Subjects: Music, history and criticism, 15th century; Music, history and criticism, 16th century
Description: Richard Freedman's Music in the Renaissance shows how music and other forms of expression were adapted to changing tastes and ideals in Renaissance courts and churches. Giving due weight to sacred, secular, and instrumental genres, Freedman invites readers to consider who made music, who sponsored and listened to it, who preserved and owned it, and what social and aesthetic purposes it served. While focusing on broad themes such as music and the literary imagination and the art of improvisation, he also describes Europeans' musical encounters with other cultures and places [Publisher description]