Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 590 g
Reihe: Music of Scotland
Music in the Scottish Church Up to 1603
Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 590 g
Reihe: Music of Scotland
ISBN: 978-0-85261-694-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
Edited from unpublished material after the author's death, this book is of great importance to anyone with an interest in Scotland's musical history.
This collection of studies presents unpublished material from the book Isobel Woods Preece was planning at the time of her death. It contains articles published by her and extracts from her dissertation on the Carvor Choirbook. There are also newly written chapters on medieval chant and polyphony by Warwick Edwards and on the music of the Reformed Church by Gordon Munro. Both scholarly and accessible, this work will be of importance to all with an interestin Scotland's Christian musical heritage.
ISOBEL WOODS PREECE (1956-1997) was a major pioneer within Scottish music research. A graduate of the University of Glasgow, she subsequently become a Rotary International Graduate Fellow at Princeton University, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Margaret Bent. She held the posts of lecturer, and later senior lecturer, in the Music Department at the University of Newcastle, where she was greatly respected as a scholar, teacher, administrator, conductor and performer.
