RICHARD HUDSON ITALIAN KEYBOARD PASSACAGLIA & CHACONNE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES

THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITALIAN KEYBOARD VARIATIONS
ON THE PASSACAGLIO AND CIACCONA
FROM GUITAR MUSIC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL SATISFACTION OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
IN MUSIC
BY
RICHARD ALBERT HUDSON

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE :
PROFESSOR GILBERT REANEY, CHAIRMAN. PROFESSOR ROBERT U NELSON. PROFESSOR LAURENCE
A PETRAN. PROFESSOR JAMES E PHILLIPS. PROFESSOR ELI SOBEL.

COPYRIGHT BY
RICHARD ALBERT HUDSON
1967

Richard Hudson  was Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1967 to 1991. He studied organ with Arthur Poister at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Syracuse University for the B.Mus. and M.Mus. degrees. He received a Ph.D. in musicology from UCLA. He has taught organ and music theory at Oberlin and at Converse College in Spartanburg, SC, and music history at UCLA. His books include The Folia, the Saraband, the Passacaglia, and the Chaconne, 4 vols. l982, The Allemande, the Balletto, and the Tanz, 2 vols.1986, Stolen Time: The History of Tempo Rubato 1994, and Jumping to Conclusions: The Falling-Third Cadences in Chant, Polyphony, and Recitative 2006. He edited the keyboard works of Benedict Schultheiss in the Corpus of Early Keyboard Music (1993).  He has also published music for pipe organ such as Trios for Organ, 2 vols. 1971-72, Suite of Organ Carols 1976, Hymn Trios for the New Organist, 4 vols. 1994-95, The Time of Christmas 1997, and The Time of Easter 2006.

This work  his original dissertation written as part of the requirements for his degree as Doctor of Philosophy in Music in 1967  an important work in its field was never published in its original form. UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, published a revision of the work in 1981.
An original 1967 Xeroxed copy of the original typescript and handwritten music, with a total of 468 pages with text on one side only.

Inscribed on front endpaper : To Gilbert Reaney, In appreciation for wise and patient guidance. Richard Hudson.

Gilbert Reaney 1924 2008, was one of the most prolific and influential musicologists of the past century.

Condition
Original cloth covered hardback with gilt lettered title to spine, a good solid binding, pages are clean, all complete.
Size is 11 by 8¾ inches, 2¼ inches thick.
This is a heavy volume

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