Music Performance in Ancient Societies - Paperback

by Craig Dabelstein (Editor), David Whitwell (Author)

This volume contains first-hand and eye-witness descriptions of the actual performance of music in ancient and medieval societies.Documented here are not only concerts of art music in real concert halls, but a wide spectrum of functional music for the theater, banquets, weddings, funerals and the military.

Author Biography

David Whitwell is a graduate ("with distinction") of the University of Michigan and the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. (Ph.D., Musicology, Distinguished Alumni Award, 2000) and has studied conducting with Eugene Ormandy and at the Akademie fur Musik, Vienna. Dr. Whitwell has been a guest professor in 100 different universities and conservatories throughout the United States and in 23 foreign countries (most recently in China, in an elite school housed in the Forbidden City). Guest conducting experiences have included the Philadelphia Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Radio Orchestras of Brno and Bratislava, The National Youth Orchestra of Israel, as well as resident wind ensembles in Russia, Israel, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, England, Wales, The Netherlands, Portugal, Peru, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Canada and the United States.