{"product_id":"praise-of-musicke-1586","title":"Praise of Musicke, 1586","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume provides the first printed critical edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Praise of Musicke\u003c\/i\u003e (1586), keeping the original text intact and accompanied by an analytical commentary. Against the Puritan attacks on liturgical music, \u003ci\u003eThe Praise of Musicke\u003c\/i\u003e, the first apologetic treatise on music in English, epitomizes the Renaissance defence of music in civil and religious life. While existing studies of \u003ci\u003eThe Praise of Musicke\u003c\/i\u003e are limited to the question of authorship, the present volume scrutinizes its musical discourse, which recapitulates major issues in the ancient philosophy and theology of music, considering the contemporary practice of sacred and secular music. Through an interdisciplinary analysis of \u003ci\u003eThe Praise of Musicke\u003c\/i\u003e, combining historical musicology with philosophical theology, this study situates the treatise and its author within the wider historical, intellectual and religious context of musical polemics and apologetics of the English Reformation, thereby appraising its significance in the history of musical theory and literature. The book throws fresh light on this substantial but neglected treatise that presents, with critical insights, the most learned discussion of music from classical antiquity to the Renaissance and Reformation era. In doing so it offers a new interpretation of the treatise, which marks a milestone in the history of musical apologetics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54252876169560,"sku":"9781472473028","price":210.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781472473028.jpg?v=1777104037","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/praise-of-musicke-1586","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}