The Lute in the Dutch Golden Age : : Musical Culture in the Netherlands ca. 1580-1670 / / 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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
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Physical Description:1 online resource (262 p.) :; 34 color plates, 99 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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