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History of English Music (Cambridge Library Collection - Music) Book
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Book Description
Henry Davey was a noted scholar of Tudor music. He published this controversial History of English Music in 1895. The first scholarly book covering the full range of English musical achievements, it focuses mainly on the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, which Davey regarded as the heyday of English music.
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Product Description
The British musicologist Henry Davey (1853-1929) was a noted scholar of the manuscript sources of Tudor music. He published the first edition of History of English Music in 1895 with the aim of providing his fellow-musicians with the first clear scholarly account of the full range of English musical achievements. His main focus is the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which he considered the heyday of English music, and he claims that the earliest known free instrumental compositions, as well as the polyphonic style, originated in England during the fifteenth century. In Davey's view, these controversial findings were his most important contribution to general musical knowledge. His work was widely discussed in his own time, attracting both praise and aggressive criticism, and continues to be read with great critical interest today, not least because of its parallels with the socialist utopianism of Ruskin and Morris.
- 1108004059
- 9781108004053
- Henry Davey
- 20 July 2009
- Cambridge University Press
- Paperback (Book)
- 540
- 1
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