Sweelinck's keyboard music : a study of English elements in seventeenth-century Dutch composition / Alan Curtis ; published for the Sir Thomas Browne Institute.

Author/creator Curtis, Alan
Format Book
Publication InfoLeiden : University Press; London : Oxford University Press, 1969.
Descriptionxiv, 243 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesPublications of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute, Leiden. General series ; no. 4
Publications of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute. General series ; no. 4. ^A680905
Contents Introduction. The Orpheus of Amsterdam -- English musicians in the Netherlands around 1600 -- Keyboard music in the Netherlands before Sweelinck -- Sweelinck's keyboard music: new sources and problems of authentication -- Sweelinck's keyboard music: towards a chronology -- Sweelinck's keyboard music: style. Works based on English pavans ; Variations on English tunes ; English figural techniques ; Chromatic fantasies and meantone tuning -- Dutch keyboard music at mid-century -- Appendices. C.H. Edskes, the organs of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam at the time of Sweelinck ; Original texts of the documents concerning the Oude Kerk organs -- Domestic keyboard instruments Sweelinck might have played -- English and Dutch ornament symbols -- Portraits of Sweelinck -- N. Voocht, Lyck-Klacht Over de doot des Voortreffelycken ende wijt-beroemden Meesters Ian Pietersz: Sweeling (Amsterdam, 1621) -- Chart for comparison of the 1943 and 1968 editions of Sweelinck's Werken, I.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-233) and index.
LCCN 70412442

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML410.S97 C9 1969 ✔ Available Place Hold