Sweelinck / Frits Noske.

Author/creator Noske, Frits
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
Description141 pages : music ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesOxford studies of composers ; 22
Oxford studies of composers ; 22. ^A639033
Contents Sweelinck and the rise of Amsterdam -- Secular vocal music. The chansons ; The madrigals ; Nuptial songs and canons -- Sacred vocal music. The psalter ; The Latin motets -- Instrumental music. Sweelinck's instruments ; Stylistic characteristics and historical background ; The fantasias ; The echo fantasias ; The toccatas ; Variation cycles: sacred melodies ; Variations on secular tunes ; Lute music ; Forma formans -- Conclusion.
Abstract The first survey in English of the life and works of the great Dutch composer and organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621), this book provides a thorough analysis of his keyboard and vocal composition techniques set against the background of his life in sixteenth- and seveteenth-century Amsterdam.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 137-138) and index.
LCCN 87034501
ISBN0193152592 :
ISBN0193152584 (pbk.) :

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