The New Oxford book of carols : edited by Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott ; associate editor, Clifford Bartlett
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The New Oxford book of carols : edited by Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott ; associate editor, Clifford Bartlett
Oxford University Press, c1992
- : pbk
Printed Music（Close Score）
Available at / 14 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Each carol followed by an English translation printed as text, historical notes, and performance notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 684-693) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
-
: pbk ISBN 9780193533226
Description
Music and texts of 201 carols for the Christmas season (many in more than one setting), each with copious notes on historical background and performance. An extensive general introduction gives an overview of the history of the carol, and there are a number of appendices dealing with specific areas of the repertory. The book's approach is an attempt to rediscover the native vitality of material that has sometimes been debased and sentimentalized, by means of
`authentic' period settings and a concern for historically informed performance.
Table of Contents
- PART 1: COMPOSED CAROLS
- THE MIDDLE AGES
- ENGLISH CAROLS 1400-1700
- EUROPEAN CAROLS 1550-1700
- EUROPE AND AMERICA 1700-1830
- THE LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY
- THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- PART TWO: TRADITIONAL CAROLS
- ENGLISH TRADITIONAL
- LUCK-VISIT SONGS
- IRISH TRADITIONAL
- WELSH TRADITIONAL
- AMERICAN TRADITIONAL
- TRINIDADIAN TRADITIONAL
- GERMAN TRADITIONAL
- CZECH TRADITIONAL
- POLISH TRADITIONAL
- PROVENCAL TRADITIONAL
- FRENCH TRADITIONAL
- BASQUE TRADITIONAL
- SPANISH TRADITIONAL
- NEOPOLITAN TRADITIONAL
- Volume
-
ISBN 9780193533233
Description
This anthology comprises 201 carols (many in more than one musical setting) supplemented with extensive notes on historical background and performance. Period settings and primary sources are used wherever possible, with an overriding concern for historically informed performance across the variety of different repertories included. "The Oxford Book of Carols", first published in 1928, was a pioneer work, and is still considered the most famous, most complete and most widely used of all carol books. However, 60 years on, significant developments in musicology now necessitate a radical reappraisal of the repertory and a fresh approach to it. This new volume is more diverse in content than its predecessors.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Composed carols: The Middle Ages
- English carols 1400-1700
- European carols 1550-1700
- Europe and America 1700-1830
- the later 19th century
- the 20th century. Part 2 Traditional carols: English
- street songs
- Irish
- Welsh
- American
- West Indian
- German
- Czech
- Polish
- Provencal
- French
- Basque
- Spanish
- Neapolitan. Part 3 Appendices: 15th-century English pronunciation
- church music in post-reformation Germany and England
- the English "Country" and American "Primitive" traditions
- Gilbert, Sandys and the revival of the folk carol.
by "Nielsen BookData"