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Item Details
Title:
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THE LUTE IN BRITAIN
A HISTORY OF THE INSTRUMENT AND ITS MUSIC |
By: |
Matthew Spring |
Format: |
Hardback |

List price:
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£402.50 |
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ISBN 10: |
0198166206 |
ISBN 13: |
9780198166207 |
Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
26 July, 2001 |
Series: |
Oxford Early Music Series |
Pages: |
568 |
Description: |
The Lute in Britain is the first comprehensive account of the lute's history and music in Britain from medieval times to the present. Writing for the music student, the serious listener, the player, maker, and lute enthusiast, Spring makes available for the first time over forty years of musical scholarship that has previously been the preserve of academic journals. |
Synopsis: |
The lute was one of the most important instruments in use in Europe from late medieval times up to the eighteenth century, as a solo instrument, in combination with other instruments, or with the voice. Despite its acknowledged importance this study is the first ever comprehensive work on the instrument and its music, apart from performance studies or bibliographical and reference publications. While Spring focuses on the lute in Britain, he also includes two chapters devoted to continental developments: one on the transition from medieval to renaissance, the other on renaissance to baroque, and the lute in Britain is never treated in isolation. Six chapters cover all aspects of the lute's history and its music in England from 1285 to well into the eighteenth century, whilst other chapters cover the instruments early history, the lute in concert, lute song accompaniment, the thearbo, and the lute in Scotland. Writing for the music student, the serious listener, the player, maker, and lute enthusiast, Spring makes available for the first time, over 40 years of musical scholarship previously the preserve of academic journals. |
Illustrations: |
numerous halftones and music examples |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
Prizes: |
Winner of Winner of the American Music Instrument Society's Bassarabov |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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