François Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music'

François Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music'
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781409493617
ISBN-13 : 140949361X
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Book Synopsis François Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music' by : Professor David Tunley

Download or read book François Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music' written by Professor David Tunley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: François Couperin's contribution to the literature of baroque keyboard music has long been recognized. François Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music' updates and expands upon David Tunley's valuable 1982 BBC Music Guide to the composer, and examines the whole of Couperin’s output including the organ masses, motets and chamber music, in addition to the well-known works for harpsichord. Taking as its focal point Couperin's concept of the perfection of music through the union of the French and Italian styles, this book takes a more analytical approach to Couperin's work. Early chapters outline the main contrasting features of the two schools in the seventeenth- and early eighteenth-centuries, and it becomes clear that Couperin's expressive power owed much to his fusion of the polarities of the French classical tradition with that of the Italian baroque. The book features a number of appendices, including the prefaces to Couperin's work both in the original French and in English translation, and a glossary of dances of the French baroque.


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