Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance
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- ISBN 9781350075559
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 166 x 242mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A CULTURAL HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC IN THE RENAISSANCE
A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance covers the period from 1400 to 1650, examining structures of identity and the delicate relationships between self, society, and sound. What did listeners and creators want from music in the Renaissance? How were the forms and meanings of music shaped by the social, political, and technological transformations of the time? Music was put to many uses in this epoch: as an instrument of power in a changing political order; as an aid to religious and philosophical speculation; and as a tool for constructing emotional communities and regimes. And music itself was transformed, both by new technologies, such as print, and by the expansion of travel and trade.
The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Western Music presents the first comprehensive history from classical antiquity to today, covering all forms and aspects of music and its ever-changing social context. The themes covered in each volume are society; philosophies; politics; exchange; education; popular culture; performance; and technologies.
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Western Music is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com . Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com .
Jeanice Brooks is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. She is author of The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger: Performing Past and Future Between the Wars (CUP, 2013) and Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France (University of Chicago Press, 2000) and co-editor of Music and Poetry in the French Renaissance (Cambridge French Colloquia, 2001).
Richard Freedman is John C. Whitehead 1943 Professorship in the Humanities and Associate Provost for Curricular Development and Support at Haverford College. His books include The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso and their Protestant Listeners: Music, Piety, and Print in Sixteenth-Century France (University of Rochester Press/Boydell and Brewer, 2001), Music in the Renaissance (Norton in 2012) and An Anthology of Music in the Renaissance (Norton in 2012).
