Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252082979

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By Claude V. Palisca, Edited by Thomas J. Mathiesen
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"Claude Palisca was indeed a prolific scholar, but the steady stream of books, articles, editions, and reports that he produced over the years from 1954 into the late '90s is far more notable for its high quality than for its admittedly impressive bulk. . . . As one might expect, the level of the book as a whole is very high. . . . What he and his editor have given us in Music and Ideas is at once a reader-friendly digest - a sumula - of, and an introduction to, his scholarly oeuvre."--Renaissance Quarterly
 
"Palisca's book is engaging reading for those who already know the subject, accessible to interested non-specialists, and indispensable for students. At a reasonable price, even in cloth, it deserves to make its way quickly into many classrooms and personal libraries."--Music and Letters
"Engagingly written for non-specialists (and even non-musicians), yet invaluable for the expert, this remarkable book is both the final summation of a lifetime's distinguished scholarship by the acknowledged master in the field and a stimulating, thorough and authoritative introduction to nearly every aspect of a lively and complex cultural and intellectual milieu of great historical significance: the musical world of the Renaissance and early Baroque, when the rediscovery of classical antiquity helped transmute the medieval into the modern. A profoundly generous legacy by a master scholar and teacher."--David E. Cohen, Columbia University
 
"It is hard to imagine anyone better qualified to write this book than Claude Palisca. Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries brings together his vast learning on Renaissance musical thought in a concise and readable volume that will be of value to scholars and students alike. It is a fitting culmination to this distinguished scholar's career."--Thomas Christensen, professor of music, University of Chicago
 

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