“Music and Instruments of the Elizabethan Age: The Eglantine Table” places a focus on the musical items portrayed on the tabletop, for at least 15 musical instruments appear alongside music as it would have been notated at the time.
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Early modern musical incarnations of the ‘Odyssey’ take center stage in the volume, and particularly Giacomo Badoaro and Claudio Monteverdi’s ‘Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria’ (1640), an opera that is becoming increasingly well-known to musicians, scholars, and audiences.
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In 1999, the Lilly Library of Indiana University purchased a leather-bound book of disparate works from a Brussels bookseller that includes a music treatise written (for the most part) in the unmistakable hand of Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
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Marcie Ray’s book presents a serious commentary on women’s status within the cultural and social hierarchy from 1701 to 1745.
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William Kinderman’s book focuses on Beethoven’s lifelong belief in freedom and progress as universal ideals that found expression in his music in all periods of his life in ways that continue to resonate to the present day
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