Fiori musicali : liber amicorum Alexander Silbiger
Claire Anne Fontijn (Editor), Susan Helen Parisi (Editor), Alexander Silbiger (Honoree)
The twenty essays in this volume honor Alexander Silbiger, distinguished scholar, performer, and teacher, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. The contributors of the essays are friends, colleagues, and former students. An eminent authority on Baroque keyboard music, Professor Silbiger is the author and editor of influential editions, monographs, and articles on music in the Baroque era, including the monumental 17th Century Keyboard Music (28 volumes), Keyboard Music Before 1700, and Frescobaldi Studies, this last the fruits of the International Frescobaldi Conference that he organized. For more than thirty years, Professor Silbiger taught in departments of music, first at Brandeis University and the University of Wisconsin, then from 1984 until his retirement in 2002 at Duke University. The collection of essays is divided into six subject areas that represent distinct research interests of the honoree: Part 1: Frescobaldi; Part 2: Vocal Music; Part 3: The Transition from Modality to Tonality; Part 4: Keyboard Music; Part 5: Music of the Eighteenth Century; and Part 6: Newfound Sources in the United States. The volume opens with an Introduction by Claire Fontijn and a Tribute on behalf of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music by Georgia Cowart. Together, these trace Professor Silbiger's career broadly, from the completion of his first doctorate in Engineering Mechanics in 1961 to the present, and offer a portrait of him as scholar, performer, teacher, and mentor. --Book Jacket
Print Book, English, 2010
Harmonie Park Press, Sterling Heights, MI, 2010