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Music and the Historical Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Leo Treitler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Leo Treitler is a central figure in American musicology, both for his writings on medieval and Renaissance music and for his influential work on historical anal
History, Imagination, and the Performance of Music
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Peter Walls
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Incorporated

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Both a defence of research aiming to recover how music sounded in the past and an argument for the application of such historical research to performance.
Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: Theodore Koditschek
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imper
Representing History, 900-1300
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Robert Allan Maxwell
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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"Brings together the disciplines of art, music, and history to explore the importance of the past to conceptions of the present in the central Middle Ages"--Pro
Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Stephanie Porras
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-23 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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The question of how to understand Bruegel’s art has cast the artist in various guises: as a moralizing satirist, comedic humanist, celebrator of vernacular tr