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An invaluable reference book that offers fresh perspectives on musical life in Europe and the New World from 1600 to 1750. Topics covered include national, social and cultural aspects of music, voices, instruments and musical genres, performance practice and authenticity. Biographical dictionaries of composers, performers and patrons are given for each region.

Across Europe, more than three hundred houses and museums commemorate the composers who lived and worked in them. In "Calling on the Composer, " " "two distinguished musicologists guide the musically curious traveler or reader to these sites and provide essential information on their content and significance.Whether lakeside hut or moated castle, clock tower or cave, village school or fine town house, the physical context for musical genius an...