Musical Authorship from Schütz to Bach

by Stephen Rose

What did the term 'author' denote for Lutheran musicians in the generations between Heinrich Sch tz and Johann Sebastian Bach? As part of the Musical Performance and Reception series, this book examines attitudes to authorship as revealed in the production, performance and reception of music in seventeenth-century German lands. Analysing a wide array of archival, musical, philosophical and theological texts, this study illuminates notions of creativity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108421075
• ISBN13: 9781108421072
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"