Music in the writings and imagination of Silesian humanists

Titel: Music in the writings and imagination of Silesian humanists / by Tomasz Jeż
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Veröffentlicht: Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2024]
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
BRP Early modern cultures of the younger Europe
Einheitssachtitel: Śląska republika muzyki
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ISBN: 9004707247 ; 9789004707245 ; 9789004707252
Bemerkung: Text in englischer Übersetzung
Translation of: Śląska republika muzyki: muzyczne imaginaria nadodrzańskich humanistów
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 91-104
Zusammenfassung: Explores the sound-world of early modern Silesia via the writings of humanists active there in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who both observed musical culture and actively participated in it: a poet, a publisher, a pedagogue, a physician, a historian, and a regionalist. Such an approach makes it possible to reconstruct their perceptions and understandings of music--a constitutive element of this community. As these authors concentrated more on the representation of music than the art itself, the book reflects the collective memory of the republic of scholars: their individual and common imaginarium