Title: The Elizabethan Madrigal: A Comparative Study
Author: Joseph Kerman
Edition: First edition, 1962
Format: Paperback (printed wrappers)
Publisher: American Musicological Society (distributed by Galaxy Music Corporation, New York)
Series: Studies and Documents, No. 4
ISBN: — (published before ISBNs existed)
Language: English
Pages: xxii + 318
Dimensions: About 23 cm (height)
Publication Date: 1962
Genre: Music History, Musicology
Condition: Good
Description:
The Elizabethan Madrigal: A Comparative Study is the classic scholarly account of the English madrigal by Joseph Kerman (1924–2014), one of the leading American musicologists, and it grew out of his Princeton doctoral work. It compares the English madrigal with its Italian models, tracing the background and the Italian influence on the English school and analysing how English composers adapted the form. The book has 15 tables, a bibliography and a long section of musical examples at the end. It was published in 1962 as No. 4 in the American Musicological Society’s Studies and Documents series, and it remains a standard reference for students of Renaissance and Elizabethan music. This copy is the first edition in printed wrappers. The pages and covers show the toning expected for a book of its age.
Title: The Elizabethan Madrigal: A Comparative Study
Author: Joseph Kerman
Edition: First edition, 1962
Format: Paperback (printed wrappers)
Publisher: American Musicological Society (distributed by Galaxy Music Corporation, New York)
Series: Studies and Documents, No. 4
ISBN: — (published before ISBNs existed)
Language: English
Pages: xxii + 318
Dimensions: About 23 cm (height)
Publication Date: 1962
Genre: Music History, Musicology
Condition: Good
Description:
The Elizabethan Madrigal: A Comparative Study is the classic scholarly account of the English madrigal by Joseph Kerman (1924–2014), one of the leading American musicologists, and it grew out of his Princeton doctoral work. It compares the English madrigal with its Italian models, tracing the background and the Italian influence on the English school and analysing how English composers adapted the form. The book has 15 tables, a bibliography and a long section of musical examples at the end. It was published in 1962 as No. 4 in the American Musicological Society’s Studies and Documents series, and it remains a standard reference for students of Renaissance and Elizabethan music. This copy is the first edition in printed wrappers. The pages and covers show the toning expected for a book of its age.
