{"product_id":"history-of-english-music-paperback-9781108004053","title":"History of English Music (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108004053","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHistory of English Music\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA groundbreaking and controversial overview of the history of English music, first published in 1895 and still discussed today.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHenry Davey (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108004053, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 July 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e540 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.1 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe British musicologist Henry Davey (1853–1929) was a noted scholar of the manuscript sources of Tudor music. He published the first edition of History of English Music in 1895 with the aim of providing his fellow-musicians with the first clear scholarly account of the full range of English musical achievements. His main focus is the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which he considered the heyday of English music, and he claims that the earliest known free instrumental compositions, as well as the polyphonic style, originated in England during the fifteenth century. In Davey's view, these controversial findings were his most important contribution to general musical knowledge. His work was widely discussed in his own time, attracting both praise and aggressive criticism, and continues to be read with great critical interest today, not least because of its parallels with the socialist utopianism of Ruskin and Morris.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Before the invention of composition\u003cbr\u003e 2. The invention of polyphony\u003cbr\u003e 3. The period of the invention of instrumental composition\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Reformation\u003cbr\u003e 5. The madrigalian period\u003cbr\u003e 6. The age of the declamatory songs, of the fancies for viols and of the suppression of ecclesiastical music\u003cbr\u003e 7. The period of foreign influence and of dramatic music\u003cbr\u003e 8. The period of patriotic songs\u003cbr\u003e 9. The nineteenth century\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Music [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Music\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Music%20%5BAV%5D%22\"\u003eAV\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265908101400,"sku":"9781108004053","price":42.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108004053i_2fba78fa-bfb8-4c95-9d4d-2bcadf728415.jpg?v=1694867205","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/history-of-english-music-paperback-9781108004053","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}