Autor: Gary Tomlinson

Combining a close study of Monteverdi’s secular works with recent research on late Renaissance history, Gary Tomlinson places the composer’s creative career in its broad cultural context and illumina …

In this bold recasting of operatic history, Gary Tomlinson connects opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years. The operatic voice, he maintains, has alw …

The bilingual series Flower World – Music Archaeology of the Americas, of which the present edition is the first volume, brings the study of ancient music and music-related activities of the pre-Colu …

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Music and Historical Critique provides a definitive collection of Gary Tomlinson”s influential studies on critical musicology, with the watchword throughout being history. This collection gathers hi …

Music and Historical Critique provides a definitive collection of Gary Tomlinson”s influential studies on critical musicology, with the watchword throughout being history. This collection gathers hi …

What is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, …

An authoritative survey of music and its context in the Renaissance. The sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries – the so-called Golden Age of Polyphony – represent a time of great change and devel …

The sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries – the so-called Golden Age of Polyphony – represent a time of great change and development in European music, with the flourishing of Orlando di Lasso, P …

A groundbreaking account of the origin and place of meaning in the earthly biosphere What is meaning? How does it arise? Where is it found in the world? In recent years, philosophers and scientists h …

The rapid evolutionary development of modern Homo sapiens over the past 200, 000 years is a topic of fevered interest in numerous disciplines. How did humans, while undergoing few physical changes fr …