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How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)

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"A fascinating and genuinely accessible guide....Educating, enjoyable, and delightfully unscary."—Classical MusicWhat if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "equal temperament"—the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method? Thanks to How Equal ... Read more

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"A fascinating and genuinely accessible guide....Educating, enjoyable, and delightfully unscary."—Classical MusicWhat if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "equal temperament"—the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method? Thanks to How Equal
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Enchanting Arcadia

Philip Sidney's Poems as Songs

by Ross W. Duffin ...

Series series Historical Performance
Sir Philip Sidney was one of Elizabethan England's greatest poets, producing an enormous body of poetry, voluminous letters, and his seminal treatise, The Defence of Poesie. He also loved music, describing "words set in delightfull proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for the well enchanting skill of Musicke." Most notably, his pastoral romance, Arcadia, is filled with poems described ... Read more

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Sir Philip Sidney was one of Elizabethan England's greatest poets, producing an enormous body of poetry, voluminous letters, and his seminal treatise, The Defence of Poesie. He also loved music, describing "words set in delightfull proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for the well enchanting skill of Musicke." Most notably, his pastoral romance, Arcadia, is filled with poems described
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Shakespeare's Songbook

by Ross W. Duffin ...

A remarkable work that recovers the songs Shakespeare's audiences actually heard and brings them to life through performance.Winner of the Claude V. Palisca Award of the American Musicological SocietyShakespeare lovers have long lamented that so few songs in his plays survive with original music; of about sixty song lyrics, only a handful have come down to us with musical settings. For over 150 ... Read more

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A remarkable work that recovers the songs Shakespeare's audiences actually heard and brings them to life through performance.Winner of the Claude V. Palisca Award of the American Musicological SocietyShakespeare lovers have long lamented that so few songs in his plays survive with original music; of about sixty song lyrics, only a handful have come down to us with musical settings. For over 150
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Unmasked

Lost Music for the 1613 Palatine Wedding Masques

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The 1613 marriage of Princess Elizabeth of England to Count Palatine was one of the most spectacular events of King James's court, lavishly celebrated with banquets, tournaments, fireworks, and most notably, with masques-extravagant entertainments with elaborate sets, costumes, dancing, and songs. Although the masque lyrics were all printed with the dialogue in 1613, music survives for only one ... Read more

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The 1613 marriage of Princess Elizabeth of England to Count Palatine was one of the most spectacular events of King James's court, lavishly celebrated with banquets, tournaments, fireworks, and most notably, with masques-extravagant entertainments with elaborate sets, costumes, dancing, and songs. Although the masque lyrics were all printed with the dialogue in 1613, music survives for only one
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The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy

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English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of songs, both popular and composed, to reconstruct hundreds of songs from more than a hundred plays ... Read more

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English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of songs, both popular and composed, to reconstruct hundreds of songs from more than a hundred plays
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The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft

'Treatise of Practicall Musicke' and A Briefe Discourse

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Series series Music Theory in Britain, 1500–1700: Critical Editions
Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both 1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of the Whole Booke of Psalmes (1621) and his original sacred works. A theorist as well as a composer and editor, Ravenscroft wrote two treatises on music theory: the well-known A Briefe Discourse (1614), ... Read more

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Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both 1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of the Whole Booke of Psalmes (1621) and his original sacred works. A theorist as well as a composer and editor, Ravenscroft wrote two treatises on music theory: the well-known A Briefe Discourse (1614),
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The Wren, The Wren

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Narrated by Anne Enright, Aoife Duffin, Owen Roe, Liza Ross ...

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**Winner of the 2024 Writers’ Prize in Fiction • Shortlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction • Named a Best Book of the Summer by The Guardian and The Times • Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Books of 2023, one of the Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction, and a Best Book of the Year by Time, The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, Library Journal, Harper's Bazaar, The ... Read more

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**Winner of the 2024 Writers’ Prize in Fiction • Shortlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction • Named a Best Book of the Summer by The Guardian and The Times • Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Books of 2023, one of the Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction, and a Best Book of the Year by Time, The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, Library Journal, Harper's Bazaar, The
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The Wren, the Wren

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An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women.Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel’s orderly home to find her own ... Read more

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An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women.Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel’s orderly home to find her own
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Heart, Be at Peace

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by Donal Ryan ...

Narrated by Donal Ryan, Anne Marie Ryan, Ciaran O'Brien, Eva Bartley, Gerry Howard, Killian Coyle, Roy McMillan, Toni O'Rourke ...

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**Winner of the Irish Book of the Year * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction * Shortlisted for the Nero Novel of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceFrom one of the most acclaimed Irish writers today, a new novel about smalltown Ireland that explores a community on the mend and the power of love and trauma to both bring people ... Read more

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**Winner of the Irish Book of the Year * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction * Shortlisted for the Nero Novel of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceFrom one of the most acclaimed Irish writers today, a new novel about smalltown Ireland that explores a community on the mend and the power of love and trauma to both bring people
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Soldier Sailor

'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny.' DAVID NICHOLLS

by Claire Kilroy ...

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AS HEARD ON FRONT ROW - a resonant and provocative novel.'Astonishing' Stephanie Merritt, Observer'Very, very funny' PAUL MURRAY'My favourite book I've read this year' PANDORA SYKES'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny' DAVID NICHOLSIn her wildly acclaimed new novel Claire Kilroy creates an unforgettable heroine, whose fierce love for her young son clashes with the seismic change to ... Read more

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AS HEARD ON FRONT ROW - a resonant and provocative novel.'Astonishing' Stephanie Merritt, Observer'Very, very funny' PAUL MURRAY'My favourite book I've read this year' PANDORA SYKES'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny' DAVID NICHOLSIn her wildly acclaimed new novel Claire Kilroy creates an unforgettable heroine, whose fierce love for her young son clashes with the seismic change to
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How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization

by Stuart Isacoff ...

Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy. Indeed, from the time of the Ancient Greeks through the eras of Renaissance scientists and Enlightenment philosophers, the ... Read more

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Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy. Indeed, from the time of the Ancient Greeks through the eras of Renaissance scientists and Enlightenment philosophers, the
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Discover Music of the Baroque Era

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Grandiose and glamorous, Baroque music stands alone, written to glorify the finest courts of Europe, in Italy, France, Germany, England, Austria and even far flung Spain. Its greatest composers, such as Vivaldi, Handel and Bach, head a fascinating cast of musical magicians, including Albinoni, Pachelbel and Scarlatti. Their lives are as intriguing as their music: we find virtuoso performers who ... Read more

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Grandiose and glamorous, Baroque music stands alone, written to glorify the finest courts of Europe, in Italy, France, Germany, England, Austria and even far flung Spain. Its greatest composers, such as Vivaldi, Handel and Bach, head a fascinating cast of musical magicians, including Albinoni, Pachelbel and Scarlatti. Their lives are as intriguing as their music: we find virtuoso performers who
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