A General History of Music - Volume 4 : From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Music
ISBN-10
1108016421
ISBN-13
9781108016421
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 2010
Print length
712 Pages
Weight
1,748 grams
Dimensions
20.70 x 29.80 x 4.20 cms
Product Classification:
Music
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Charles Burney (1726–1814), the music historian, is best remembered for his General History and the accounts of his tours in Europe during which he undertook research for the History. The work is elegantly written, offering a fascinating view of Burney's musical enthusiasms and a reflection of contemporary taste.
Charles Burney (1726–1814), was the foremost music historian of his day. The General History, his most famous work, was published in four volumes between 1776 and 1789 and is still of great value today. Burney wanted to write something which would appeal to and inform the musician and the general reader. Research for the History was undertaken during two European tours, in 1770 and 1772, consulting original sources and meeting the great musicians of the time. The resultant work is engaging and elegantly written, offering the reader a fascinating view not only of Burney's own musical preferences and enthusiasms, but also a reflection of contemporary fashionable taste. All four volumes contain generous musical examples, quotations from original sources and an index. The fourth volume, published 1789, is an account of the birth and development of opera and the contemporary music scene in England.
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