| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 429 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-411) and indexes. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Creative contexts and principles -- pt. II. Creative strategies. |
| Summary |
Musical Creativity in Restoration England is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to creating music in late seventeenth-century England. Understanding creativity during this period is particularly challenging because many of our basic assumptions about composition - such as concepts of originality, inspiration and genius - were not yet fully developed. In adopting a new methodology that takes into account the historical contexts in which sources were produced, Rebecca Herissone challenges current assumptions about compositional processes and offers new interpretations of the relationships between notation, performance, improvisation and musical memory. She uncovers a creative culture that was predominantly communal, and reveals several distinct approaches to composition, determined not by individuals, but by the practical function of the music. Herissone's new and original interpretations pose a fundamental challenge to our preconceptions about what it meant to be a composer in the seventeenth century and raise broader questions about the interpretation of early modern notation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- England -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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England. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Composition (Music) -- History -- 17th century.
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Composition (Music) |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Herissone, Rebecca. Musical creativity in restoration England. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107014343 (DLC) 2013008968 (OCoLC)829645956 |
| ISBN |
9781461939825 (electronic book) |
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1461939828 (electronic book) |
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9781139013741 (electronic book) |
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1139013742 (electronic book) |
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9781107014343 |
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1107014344 |
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