The Lute in the Dutch Golden Age : : Musical Culture in the Netherlands ca. 1580-1670 / / Jan W. J. Burgers.

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• VerfasserIn: Burgers, Jan W. J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2013]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.) :; 34 color plates, 99 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Chapter 1. The Lute and Its Music in Europe --; Chapter 2. Prelude: The Lute in the Netherlands before 1600 --; Chapter 3. Music in the Dutch Republic --; Chapter 4. Lutenists of the Golden Age, c.1580-1670 --; Chapter 5. A Lutenist of Standing: Constantijn Huygens --; Chapter 6. Lute Music --; Chapter 7. Infrastructure: Lute Building and the Lute Trade --; Chapter 8. The Lute in the Arts of the Golden Age --; Chapter 9. Postlude: The Lute in the Dutch Republic, 1670-1800 --; Summary and Conclusion --; Sources Used --; Bibliography --; Index of Names of Persons and Places Mentioned in the Main Text of the Book --; Index of Still Existing Lute Books and Manuscripts Mentioned in the Main Text of the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048519392; 9783110606515; 9783110662788; 9783111023779
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048519392?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jan W. J. Burgers.

Closely associated with the social elite, the lute occupied a central place in the culture of the Dutch Golden Age. In this first comprehensive study of the instrument’s role in seventeenth-century Netherlands, Jan W. J. Burgers explores how it functioned as the universal means of solo music making, group performance, and accompaniment. He showcases famous and obscure musicians; lute music in books and manuscripts; lute makers and the international lute trade; and the instrument’s place in Dutch literature and art of the period. Enhanced by beautiful illustrations, this study constitutes an important contribution to our knowledge about the lute and its Golden Age heyday.