The Dissemination Of Music In Seventeenth-century Europe

<p>In the seventeenth century, like today, the guitar was often used for chord strumming ("battuto" in Italian) in songs and popular dance genres, such as the ciaccona or sarabanda. In the golden age of the baroque guitar, Italy gave rise...

Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social classes across seventeenth century England. Ballads...

Every major poet or philosopher develops their own distinctive semantic field around those terms which matter most to them, or which contribute most profoundly to the imagined world of a particular work. This book explores the specific meanings which...

This book considers the foundation of the science of ballistics in the seventeenth century as a mathematical interpretation based on exact experimental investigation. Dr Hall examines the science of ballistics with reference to its underlying mathematical...