Geoffrey Burgess: 2 books
The Pathetick Musician
Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
What is rhetorical music? In The Pathetick Musician, Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate the vital place of rhetoric and eloquent expression in the creation and performance of Baroque music. Through engaging explorations of the cantatas of J.S. Bach, the authors explode the conventional notion...
Well-Tempered Woodwinds
Friedrich von Huene and the Making of Early Music in a New World
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Friedrich von Huene (1929– ) is arguably the most important manufacturer of historical woodwinds in the 20th century. Since he began making recorders in 1958, von Huene has exerted a strong influence on the craft of building woodwind instruments and on the study of instrument–making, as he has...