Music in the Renaissance

by Richard Freedman

Richard Freedman's Music in the Renaissance shows how music and other forms of expression were adapted to changing tastes and ideals in Renaissance courts and churches. Giving due weight to sacred, secular, and instrumental genres, Freedman invites readers to consider who made music, who sponsored and listened to it, who preserved and owned it, and what social and aesthetic purposes it served. While focusing on broad themes such as music and the literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393929167
• ISBN13: 9780393929164
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"