The Lute in the Dutch Golden Age: Musical Culture in the Netherlands ca. 1580-1670
Amsterdam University Press, 2014
Cloth: 978-90-8964-552-4 | eISBN: 978-90-485-1939-2
Library of Congress Classification ML1010.B+
Dewey Decimal Classification 787
Cloth: 978-90-8964-552-4 | eISBN: 978-90-485-1939-2
Library of Congress Classification ML1010.B+
Dewey Decimal Classification 787
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Closely associated with the social elite, the lute occupied a central place in the culture of the Dutch Golden Age. In this first comprehensive study of the instrument’s role in seventeenth-century Netherlands, Jan W. J. Burgers explores how it functioned as the universal means of solo music making, group performance, and accompaniment. He showcases famous and obscure musicians; lute music in books and manuscripts; lute makers and the international lute trade; and the instrument’s place in Dutch literature and art of the period.
Enhanced by beautiful illustrations, this study constitutes an important contribution to our knowledge about the lute and its Golden Age heyday.
Enhanced by beautiful illustrations, this study constitutes an important contribution to our knowledge about the lute and its Golden Age heyday.
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