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From Gregorian chant to Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing. 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. Among other topics, Kelly discusses ongoing debates about authenticity, the desirability of period ins...

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The Abbey of St. Gertrude in Nivelles was an important foundation in Belgium from the seventh century onward. The double chapter of women and men, ruled by a noble abbess, was a powerful ecclesiastical and political force. This manuscript, recently discovered, is essentially the only medieval source for the practices of Nivelles. It details the complex liturgical practices of this double house in the thirteenth century. The presence of women a...

Thomas Forrest Kelly has identified and collected the surviving sources of an important repertory of early medieval music, the so-called Beneventan Chant used in southern Italy in the early middle ages, before this area's adoption of the now-universal Gregorian chant. Because the Beneventan Chant was suppressed during the eleventh century, the music survives mostly in fragments and palimpsests, and the process of restoring the repertory piece ...

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The Role of the Scroll answers the question of why scrolls were made when it was possible to produce books. Scrolls were the standard form of book in Western antiquity but from the fourth century onward, the codex began to outnumber scrolls. And yet, people in the Middle Ages continued to make them. In these colourful pages, the reader will discover remarkable scrolls that range from showy court documents for empresses to tiny amulets for preg...

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For many today Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stand as towering representatives of European music of the eighteenth century, composers whose works reflect intellectual, religious, and aesthetic trends of the period. This collection of essays offers a variety of perspectives on the two composers.

Thomas Forrest Kelly, Professor für Musik in Harvard und ehemaliger Präsident der »Early Music America«, bietet in dieser Einführung einen kompakten Überblick über die Alte Musik, die primär die Musik des Mittelalters, der Renaissance und des Barock umfasst - vom Gregorianischen Gesang bis zu Bachs Brandenburgischen Konzerten. Außerdem geht er auf die Entwicklung der Alte Musik-Bewegung ein, auf die Bedeutung alter Instrumente, die Diskussion ...

Music Then and Now offers a vivid introduction to Western music by focusing on 28 works in-depth. Its "you are there" approach-demonstrated by each chapter's rich historical and cultural context-engages students in the excitement of hearing the music as original audiences did when the music was first performed. Covering all historical periods and genres, the book gives students all the tools they need for close listening.

This text takes a look back at the debut performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi's "Orfeo", Handel's "Messiah", Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony", Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" and Stravinsky's "Sacre du Printemps". It aims to recapture the atmosphere of these events.

Originally published in 1992, Desperado has become the most beloved Old West miniatures game of all time. Simple and light-hearted, it is the ideal game for conventions and large groups of people who are more concerned with having fun than winning at all costs. This edition includes the original rules verbatim, with additional house rules, design notes, photos, and modeling reference from Knuckleduster Miniatures.