The Guitar in Stuart England A Social and Musical History - Musical Performance and Reception

This is the first history of the guitar during the reign of the Stuarts, a time of great political and social upheaval in England. In this engaging and original volume, Christopher Page gathers a rich array of portraits, literary works and other, previously unpublished, archival materials in order to create a comprehensive picture of the guitar from its early appearances in Jacobean records, through its heyday at the Restoration court in Whitehall, to its decline in the first decades of the eighteenth century. The book explores the passion of Charles II himself for the guitar, and that of Samuel Pepys, who commissioned the largest repertoire of guitar-accompanied song to survive from baroque Europe. Written in Page's characteristically approachable style, this volume will appeal to general readers as well as to music historians and guitar specialists.

ISBN:	9781108419789
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Imprint:	Cambridge University Press
Published date:	16 Nov 2017
DEWEY:	787.87094209032
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xix, 288
Weight:	782g
Height:	182mm
Width:	253mm
Spine width:	24mm

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