Guitar in Stuart England - A Social and Musical History

The guitar is the most played instrument in the West. This is the first account of its rise in Stuart England.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The guitar in Jacobean and Caroline England (I): court masque and town fashion; 2. The guitar in Jacobean and Caroline England (II): London and lodgings abroad; 3. The restoration court; 4. Regarding the female guitarist; 5. Guitars, gallants and gentlewomen; 6. Samuel Pepys and the guitar all'Italiana; 7. The autumn of the five-course guitar in England.

About the author

Christopher Page is a Fellow of the British Academy, Professor of Medieval Music and Literature at the University of Cambridge, Professor of Music in Gresham College, London, and one of the world's foremost scholars of historical performance and musical instruments. This book follows The Guitar in Tudor England (Cambridge, 2015), winner of the 2017 Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize awarded by the American Musical Instrument Society. Christopher Page holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology.

Summary

The guitar is the most played instrument in the West. This book charts its success in England during the seventeenth century, a time of great political upheaval in England. It gathers a rich array of portraits, archival materials and literary works, and will interest guitar enthusiasts as well as music historians.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Page, Christopher (Sidney Sussex College Page, Page Christopher
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108412100
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41210-0
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Musical Performance and Reception
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Organology; Music, MUSIC / Musical Instruments / General, MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Strings, Musical Instruments, String instruments, Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles