The Guitar in Stuart England : A Social and Musical History
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Musical Performance and Reception
ISBN-10
110841978X
ISBN-13
9781108419789
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 16th, 2017
Print length
306 Pages
Weight
78 grams
Dimensions
18.20 x 25.30 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
GuitarHistory: specific events & topics
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The guitar is the most played instrument in the West. This book charts its success in England during the seventeenth century, a time of great political upheaval in England. It gathers a rich array of portraits, archival materials and literary works, and will interest guitar enthusiasts as well as music historians.
This is the first history of the guitar during the reign of the Stuarts, a time of great political and social upheaval in England. In this engaging and original volume, Christopher Page gathers a rich array of portraits, literary works and other, previously unpublished, archival materials in order to create a comprehensive picture of the guitar from its early appearances in Jacobean records, through its heyday at the Restoration court in Whitehall, to its decline in the first decades of the eighteenth century. The book explores the passion of Charles II himself for the guitar, and that of Samuel Pepys, who commissioned the largest repertoire of guitar-accompanied song to survive from baroque Europe. Written in Page''s characteristically approachable style, this volume will appeal to general readers as well as to music historians and guitar specialists.
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