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Francois Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music'

Paperback
Published : Friday 26 August 2016
ISBN : 9781138270442
Price : €63.17


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FranAois Couperins contribution to the literature of baroque keyboard music has long been recognized. FranAois Couperin and The Perfection of Music updates and expands upon David Tunleys valuable 1982 BBC Music Guide to the composer, and examines the whole of Couperins output including the organ masses, motets and chamber music, in addition to the well-known works for harpsichord. Taking as its focal point Couperins concept of the perfection of music through the union of the French and Italian styles, this book takes a more analytical approach to Couperins work. Early chapters outline the main contrasting features of the two schools in the seventeenth- and early eighteenth centuries and it becomes clear that Couperins expressive power owed much to his fusion of the polarities of the French classical tradition with that of the Italian baroque. The book features a number of appendices including the prefaces to Couperins work both in the original French and in English translation and a glossary of dances of the French baroque.



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