Counterpoint and Compositional Process in the Time of Dufay

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135617260
Total Pages : 430 pages
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Book Synopsis Counterpoint and Compositional Process in the Time of Dufay by : Kevin N. Moll

Download or read book Counterpoint and Compositional Process in the Time of Dufay written by Kevin N. Moll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1950s and 1960s, Austro-German scholars made decisive advances in developing concepts to account for harmonic processes in late medieval music. Despite the considerable potential these ideas hold for analysis and criticism of early music, they have hitherto exerted little influence outside their countries of origin. In order to render this valuable literature more immediately accessible to English-speaking students and scholars, this book presents translations of twelve seminal articles that originally appeared during the years 1948-1967, along with a comprehensive introductory chapter detailing the evolution of competing theories and terminology.

Counterpoint and Compositional Process in the Time of Dufay

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Book Synopsis Counterpoint and Compositional Process in the Time of Dufay by : Kevin (ed) Moll

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Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136534911
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Book Synopsis Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta by : Margaret Bent

Download or read book Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta written by Margaret Bent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musica ficta is the practice of sharpening or flattening certain notes to avoid awkward intervals in medieval and Renaissance music. This collection gathers Margaret Bent's influential writings on this controversial subject from the past 30 years, along with an extensive author's introduction discussing the current state of scholarship and responding to critics. Also includes 25 musical examples.

Machaut's Music

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843830167
Total Pages : 314 pages
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Book Synopsis Machaut's Music by : Elizabeth Eva Leach

Download or read book Machaut's Music written by Elizabeth Eva Leach and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guillaume de Machaut was the foremost poet-composer of his time. Studies look at all aspects of his prodigious output.

The Motet in the Age of Du Fay

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543378
Total Pages : 440 pages
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Book Synopsis The Motet in the Age of Du Fay by : Julie E. Cumming

Download or read book The Motet in the Age of Du Fay written by Julie E. Cumming and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-evaluation of the Latin-texted motet during the age of Du Fay.

Reader's Guide to Music

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135942625
Total Pages : 928 pages
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Book Synopsis Reader's Guide to Music by : Murray Steib

Download or read book Reader's Guide to Music written by Murray Steib and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).

Composing Community in Late Medieval Music

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108474918
Total Pages : 301 pages
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Book Synopsis Composing Community in Late Medieval Music by : Jane D. Hatter

Download or read book Composing Community in Late Medieval Music written by Jane D. Hatter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of what self-referential compositions reveal about late medieval musical networks, linking choirboys to canons and performers to theorists.

Studies in Historical Improvisation

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317048938
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Book Synopsis Studies in Historical Improvisation by : Massimiliano Guido

Download or read book Studies in Historical Improvisation written by Massimiliano Guido and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. This historically informed practice is now supplanting the late Romantic view of improvised music as a rhapsodic endeavour—a musical blossoming out of the capricious genius of the player—that dominated throughout the twentieth century. In the Renaissance and Baroque eras, composing in the mind (alla mente) had an important didactic function. For several categories of musicians, the teaching of counterpoint happened almost entirely through practice on their own instruments. This volume offers the first systematic exploration of the close relationship among improvisation, music theory, and practical musicianship from late Renaissance into the Baroque era. It is not a historical survey per se, but rather aims to re-establish the importance of such a combination as a pedagogical tool for a better understanding of the musical idioms of these periods. The authors are concerned with the transferral of historical practices to the modern classroom, discussing new ways of revitalising the study and appreciation of early music. The relevance and utility of such an improvisation-based approach also changes our understanding of the balance between theoretical and practical sources in the primary literature, as well as the concept of music theory itself. Alongside a word-centred theoretical tradition, in which rules are described in verbiage and enriched by musical examples, we are rediscovering the importance of a music-centred tradition, especially in Spain and Italy, where the music stands alone and the learner must distil the rules by learning and playing the music. Throughout its various sections, the volume explores the path of improvisation from theory to practice and back again.

The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316025489
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory by : Thomas Christensen

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory written by Thomas Christensen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical subject, the volume has been organized within a flexible framework. Some chapters are defined chronologically within a restricted historical domain, whilst others are defined conceptually and span longer historical periods. Together the thirty-one chapters present a synthetic overview of the fascinating and complex subject that is historical music theory. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies of the most important primary and secondary literature, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.

The Motet in the Late Middle Ages

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190063807
Total Pages : 777 pages
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Book Synopsis The Motet in the Late Middle Ages by : Margaret Bent

Download or read book The Motet in the Late Middle Ages written by Margaret Bent and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique capacity of measured polyphony is to give precisely fixed places not only to musical notes, but also to individual words in relation to them and each other. The Motet in the Late Middle Ages offers innovative approaches to the equal partnership of music and texts in motets of the fourteenth century and beyond, showcasing the imaginative opportunities afforded by this literal kind of intertextuality, and yielding a very different narrative from the common complaint that different simultaneous texts make motets incomprehensible. As leading musicologist Margaret Bent asserts, they simply require a different approach to preparation and listening. In this book, Bent examines the words and music of motets from many different angles: foundational verbal quotations and pre-existent chant excerpts and their contexts, citations both of words and music from other compositions, function, dating, structure, theory, and number symbolism. Individual studies of these original creations tease out a range of strategies, ingenuity, playfulness, striking juxtapositions, and even subversion. Half of the thirty-two chapters consist of new material; the other half are substantially revised and updated versions of previously published articles and chapters, organized into seven Parts. With new analyses of text and music together, new datings, new attributions, and new hypotheses about origins and interrelationships, Bent uncovers little-explored dimensions, provides a window into the craft and thought processes of medieval composers, and opens up many directions for future work.

Historical Dictionary of Choral Music

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538124343
Total Pages : 699 pages
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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Choral Music by : Melvin P. Unger

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Choral Music written by Melvin P. Unger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Dictionary of Choral Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,300 cross-referenced entries on composers, conductors, choral ensembles, choral genres, and choral repertoire.

Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442264632
Total Pages : 402 pages
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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music by : Joseph P. Swain

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music written by Joseph P. Swain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on major types of music, composers, key religious figures, and specialized positions, genres of composition, technical terms, and instruments.

The A to Z of Sacred Music

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810876213
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book The A to Z of Sacred Music written by Joseph P. Swain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly all religious traditions have reserved a special place for sacred music. Whether it is music accompanying a ritual or purely for devotional purposes, music composed for entire congregations or for the trained soloist, or music set to holy words or purely instrumental, in some form or another, music is present. In fact, in some traditions the relation between the music and the ritual is so intimate that to distinguish between them would be inaccurate. The A to Z of Sacred Music covers the most important aspects of the sacred music of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other smaller religious groups. It provides useful information on all the significant traditions of this music through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on major types of music, composers, key religious figures, specialized positions, genres of composition, technical terms, instruments, fundamental documents and sources, significant places, and important musical compositions.

The Modern Invention of Medieval Music

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521818704
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (187 download)

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Book Synopsis The Modern Invention of Medieval Music by : Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

Download or read book The Modern Invention of Medieval Music written by Daniel Leech-Wilkinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenging book which questions how much is really known about the way medieval music sounded.

French and English Polyphony of the 13th and 14th Centuries

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429763379
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Book Synopsis French and English Polyphony of the 13th and 14th Centuries by : Ernest H. Sanders

Download or read book French and English Polyphony of the 13th and 14th Centuries written by Ernest H. Sanders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this volume brings together the most part of the author’s work on medieval polyphony. The most significant advance in music during the period in the High Gothic was the development of a system of rhythm and of its notation, the modern understanding of which was to a considerable extent obscured by an undue emphasis on the so-called rhythmic modes. The investigation of this topic forms the centre of this book, and a related essay deals with rhythmic Latin poetry. Other pieces survey the accomplishments of Europe’s first great composer and the flourishing of the medieval motet, whose rise he stimulated, while several essays focus on English polyphony, and on what remains of the motets of Philippe de Vitry, a major figure in Parisian intellectual circles of the 14th century.

Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815333944
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (339 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music by : Todd Michael Borgerding

Download or read book Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music written by Todd Michael Borgerding and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Language of the Modes

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135683344
Total Pages : 335 pages
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Book Synopsis The Language of the Modes by : Frans Wiering

Download or read book The Language of the Modes written by Frans Wiering and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Language of the Modes provides a study of modes in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different aspects of modality. The volume codifies all known theoretical references to mode, all modally ordered musical sources, and all modally cyclic compositions. For many music students and listeners, the "language of the modes" is a deep mystery, accustomed as we are to centuries of modern harmony. Wiering demystifies the modal world, showing how composers and performers were able to use this structure to create compelling and beautiful works. This book will be an invaluable source to scholars of early music and music theory. in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different aspects of modality. It codifies all known theoretical references to mode, all modally ordered musical sources, and all modally cyclic compositions. This book will be an invaluable source to scholars of early music.