Pierre de La Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court
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- Hardcover
416 pages
- Release Date
27 March 2003
Summary
Pierre de la Rue: Music and Majesty at the Habsburg Court
Pierre de la Rue, a composer at the prestigious grande chapelle of the Habsburg-Burgundian court for nearly twenty-five years, contributed his talent to one of the era’s foremost musical establishments. Working for a succession of rulers—Maximilian I, Philip the Fair, Juana of Castile, Marguerite of Austria, and Charles V—La Rue distinguished himself among numerous fellow composers through his prolific creation of polyphony, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198165545 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198165544 |
| Author: | Honey Meconi |
| Publisher: | OUP Oxford |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 27 March 2003 |
| Weight: | 780g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 166mm x 239mm |
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Meconi has done the scholarly community a service by presenting so many of her findings on La Rue and his music together here.
Meconi has done the scholarly community a service by presenting so many of her findings on La Rue and his music together here. Early Music … a rare feature of the book is that an endearing individuality does come through … surprisingly readable. Early Music Review
About The Author
Honey Meconi
Honey Meconi is Director of Medieval Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania and Music Fellow of Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy. Dr. Meconi’s shorter writings have been published widely including with the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Journal of Musicology, Early Music, Journal of the American Musicological Society, and numerous others. She is currently editing Early Musical Borrowing for Garland in their series “Criticism and Analysis of Early Music.”
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