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The Advancement of Music in Enlightenment England: Benjamin Cooke and the Academy of Ancient Music

The Advancement of Music in Enlightenment England: Benjamin Cooke and the Academy of Ancient Music

Eggington, Tim

Hardcover

Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000, Book 11

Classical MusicMusic ReferenceWorld Music

ISBN10: 1843839067
ISBN13: 9781843839064
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Oct 16 2014
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Casts new and valuable light on English musical history and on Enlightenment culture more generally.

This is a book guaranteed to make waves. It skilfully weaves the story of one key musical figure into the story of one key institution, which it then weaves into the general story of music in eighteenth-century England. Anyone reading it will come away with fresh knowledge and perceptions - plus a great urge to hear Cooke's music.' Michael Talbot, Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool and Fellow of the British Academy.

Amidst the cosmopolitan, fashion obsessed concert life of later eighteenth century London there existed a discrete musical counterculture centred round a club known as the Academy of Ancient Music. Now largely forgotten, this enlightened school of musical thinkers sought to further music by proffering an alternative vision based on a high minded intellectual curiosity. Perceiving only ear-tickling ostentation in the showy styles that delighted London audiences, they aspired to raise the status of music as an art of profound expression, informed by its past and founded on universal harmonic principles.

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