Isbn: 9781107166158 - guillaume du fay 2 volume hardback set: the life and works: the life / the works (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorAlejandro Planchart s wide-ranging and distinguished career as composer, conductor and scholar began in Caracas, Venezuela and took him via Yale and Harvard to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is n.

2 Hardback books. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 950 pages. 10.50x8.00x4.25 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume explores the work of one of medieval music's most important figures, and in so doing presents an extended panorama of musical life in Europe at the end of the middle ages. Guillaume Du Fay rose from obscure beginnings to become the most significant composer of the fifteenth century, a man courted by kings and popes, and this study of his life and career provides a detailed examination of his entire output, including a number of newly discovered works. As well as offering musical analysis, this volume investigates his close association with the Cathedral of Cambrai, and explores how, at a time when music was becoming increasingly professionalised, Du Fay forged his own identity as 'a composer'. This detailed biography will be highly valuable for those interested in the history of medieval and church music, as well as for scholars of Du Fay's musical legacy.…