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A history of the lute from antiquity to the Renaissance / by Douglas Alton Smith.
- Title
- A history of the lute from antiquity to the Renaissance / by Douglas Alton Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Douglas Alton
- Publication
- [Lexington, VA?] : Lute Society of America, c2002.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lute Society of America
- Description
- 389 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
- Summary
- By the year 1500, the lute's almost universal appeal throughout Europe had made it a unifying element of Western music and culture. Renaissance composers, singers and dancers all found in the lute a perfect tool for the musical development and maturation of their art. In fact, the lute's unique musical and physical characteristics inspired artists and poets alike to elevate it to a place of such high honor that the lute's image has come to symbolize music itself. This traces the lute's development from the early instruments of Classical Greece to its glorious flowering in Renaissance Europe's golden age of polyphony. This illustrated and comprehensive book explores the historical and cultural reasons behind the lute's importance as the preeminent musical instrument of the Renaissance. With its lengthy bibliography, index, 74 illustrations and 55 musical examples, the author has told the lute's story with a scholarly and visual depth.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-360) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Origins in antiquity -- The Middle Ages -- Late Middle Ages and early Italian Renaissance -- Lutes and lute making in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- The Cinquecento in Italy -- Renaissance lute music in central and eastern Europe -- Lute music in France and the Lowlands -- The vihuela in Renaissance Spain -- The English Renaissance.
- ISBN
- 097140710X
- 9780971407107
- LCCN
- ^^2002103414
- OCLC
- 49965018
- SCSB-10325785
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library