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1 online resource (354 pages) : illustrations |
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Creating to Order: Patronage and the Creative Act. 1. 'Big with New Events and some Unheard Success': Absolutism and Creativity at the Restoration Court -- 2. Creativity on Several Occasions -- Creative Identity and the Role of Print Media. 3. Author, Musician, Composer: Creator? Figuring Musical Creativity in Print at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century -- 4. Published Musical Variants and Creativity: An Overview of John Playford's Role as Editor -- Mapping Knowledge: The Visual Representation of Ideas. 5. Space, Text and Creativity in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 6. The 'Artificial Sceane': The Re-Creation of Italian Architecture in John Evelyn's Diary -- Authorial Identity. 7. Telling what is Told: Originality and Repetition in Rubens's English Works -- 8. Plagiarism at the Academy of Ancient Music: A Case Study in Authorship, Style and Judgement -- Imitation and Arrangement. 9. A Meeting of Amateur and Professional: Playford's 'Compendious Collection' of Two-Part Airs, Court-Ayres (1655) -- 10. 'Creating' Cato in Early Seventeenth-Century England -- The Performer as Creator. 11. 'Our Friend Venus Performed to a Miracle': Anne Bracegirdle, John Eccles and Creativity -- 12. Music and Manly Wit in Seventeenth-Century England: The Case of the Catch |
| Summary |
"In the seventeenth century, the concept of creativity was far removed from most of the fundamental ideas about the creative act -- notions of human imagination, inspiration, originality and genius -- that developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Instead, in this period, students learned their crafts by copying and imitating past masters and did not consciously seek to break away from tradition. Most new material was made on the instructions of a patron and had to conform to external expectations; and basic tenets that we tend to take for granted-such as the primacy and individuality of the author-were apparently considered irrelevant in some contexts. The aim of this interdisciplinary collection of essays is to explore what it meant to create buildings and works of art, music and literature in seventeenth-century England and to investigate the processes by which such creations came into existence. Through a series of specific case studies, the book highlights a wide range of ideas, beliefs and approaches to creativity that existed in seventeenth-century England and places them in the context of the prevailing intellectual, social and cultural trends of the period. In so doing, it draws into focus the profound changes that were emerging in the understanding of human creativity in early modern society -- transformations that would eventually lead to the development of a more recognisably modern conception of the notion of creativity. The contributors work in and across the fields of literary studies, history, musicology, history of art and history of architecture, and their work collectively explores many of the most fundamental questions about creativity posed by the early modern English 'creative arts'"--Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Creative ability.
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- 17th century
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Music -- England -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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creativity.
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ART -- History -- General.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 17th Century.
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Civilization
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Creative ability
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Music
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Art and Design.
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England -- Civilization -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043276
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England
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Herissone, Rebecca, editor.
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Howard, Alan, 1979- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781782042310 |
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1782042318 |
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1306152186 |
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9781306152181 |
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