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Treasures of the Golden Age

Treasures of the Golden Age

Essays in Honor of Robert M. Stevenson

by Michael O'ConnorWalter Aaron Clark and Robert Stevenson
Hardback
Publication Date: 03/09/2012

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In an age of hyper-specialization, Robert M. Stevenson reminds us of a time when an exceptional musician could easily work in various disciplines without being accused of dilettantism. Over his long career he has become an exceptional pianist, composer, teacher, and scholar. Few others can boast the sheer volume and groundbreaking nature of his scholarship, but virtually no one can also claim to have done this while producing compositions that were performed by major musical organizations such as the Philadelphia Orchestra. His place in American musical history is secure and considerable. The time is well past for volume of work to be published in his honor. This collection of essays honors the subject that may be the most visible of his long career, the sacred music of Iberian and Latin American Renaissance. Stevenson's Spanish Cathedral Music and Music in the Age of Columbus, published over forty years ago, remain the standard surveys of these subjects. The collection features contributions by a group of scholars who feel an immense debt of gratitude for his foundational work in this area, and it brings together studies of musical and archival sources, performance practices, institutional traditions, chant traditions, and compositional approaches related to music ractices, institutional traditions, chant traditions, and compositional approaches related to music produced in Spain,
ISBN:
9781576472033
9781576472033
Category:
Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
03-09-2012
Publisher:
Pendragon Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
342
Dimensions (mm):
90x60x27mm
Weight:
0.73kg
Robert Stevenson

Dr Robert Stevenson is a consultant historian who served in the Australian Regular Army before joining the staff at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, and later working with the Official History project at the Australian War Memorial. His doctoral thesis was a joint winner of the Australian Army History Unit’s CEW Bean Prize in 2011. His most recent major publication, The War with Germany, was published as part of The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War and was shortlisted for the Australian History Prize in the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for 2016.

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