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Book Synopsis Discovering Medieval Song by : Mark Everist
Download or read book Discovering Medieval Song written by Mark Everist and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conductus repertory is the body of monophonic and polyphonic non-liturgical Latin song that dominated European culture from the middle of the twelfth century to the beginning of the fourteenth. In this book, Mark Everist demonstrates how the poetry and music interact, explores how musical structures are created, and discusses the geographical and temporal reach of the genre, including its significance for performance today. The volume studies what medieval society thought of the Conductus, its function in medieval society - whether paraliturgical or in other contexts - and how it fitted into patristic and secular Latin cultures. The Conductus emerges as a genre of great poetic and musical sophistication that brought the skills of poets and musicians into alignment. This book provides an all-encompassing view of an important but unexplored repertory of medieval music, engaging with both poetry and music even-handedly to present new and up-to-date perspectives on the genre.
Book Synopsis Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by : George Grove
Download or read book Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Medieval Music by : Mark Everist
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Medieval Music written by Mark Everist and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning a millennium of musical history, this monumental volume brings together nearly forty leading authorities to survey the music of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. All of the major aspects of medieval music are considered, making use of the latest research and thinking to discuss everything from the earliest genres of chant, through the music of the liturgy, to the riches of the vernacular song of the trouvères and troubadours. Alongside this account of the core repertory of monophony, The Cambridge History of Medieval Music tells the story of the birth of polyphonic music, and studies the genres of organum, conductus, motet and polyphonic song. Key composers of the period are introduced, such as Leoninus, Perotinus, Adam de la Halle, Philippe de Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut, and other chapters examine topics ranging from musical theory and performance to institutions, culture and collections.
Book Synopsis Prosdocimo de' Beldomandi's Musica Plana and Musica Speculativa by : Prosdocimo de' Beldomandi
Download or read book Prosdocimo de' Beldomandi's Musica Plana and Musica Speculativa written by Prosdocimo de' Beldomandi and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in English for the first time, Prosdocimo's Tractatus plane musice (1412) and Tractatus musice speculative (1425) are exemplary texts for understanding the high sophistication of music theory in the early fifteenth century. Known for considering music as a science based on demonstrable mathematical principles, Prosdocimo praises Marchetto for his theory of plainchant but criticizes his influential Lucidarium for its heterodox mathematics. In dismissing Marchetto as a “mere performer,” Prosdocimo takes up matters as broad as the nature and definition of music and as precise as counterpoint, tuning, and ecclesiastical modes. The treatises also reveal much about Prosdocimo’s understanding of plainchant; his work with Euclid's Elementa; and his familiarity with the music theory of Boethius, Macrobius, and Johannes de Muris. A foremost authority on Italian music theory of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, Jan Herlinger consults manuscripts from Bologna, Cremona, and Lucca in preparing these valuable first critical editions.
Book Synopsis The Sound of Medieval Song by : Timothy J. McGee
Download or read book The Sound of Medieval Song written by Timothy J. McGee and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998-04-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sound of Medieval Song is a study of how sacred and secular music was actually sung during the Middle Ages. The source of the information is the actual notation in the early manuscripts as well as statements found in approximately 50 theoretical treatises written between the years 600-1500. The writings describe various singing practices and both desirable and undesirable vocal techniques, providing a fairly accurate picture of how singers approached the music of the period. Detailed descriptions of the types and uses of improvised ornament indicate that in performance the music was highly ornate, and included trill, gliss, reverberation, pulsation, pitch inflection, non-diatonic tones, and cadenza-like passages of various lengths. The treatises also provide evidence of stylistic differences in various geographical locations. McGee draws conclusions about the kind of vocal production and techniques necessary in order to reproduce the music as it was performed during the Middle Ages, aligning the practices much more closely with those of the Middle East than has ever been previously acknowledged.
Book Synopsis A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music by : Ross W. Duffin
Download or read book A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music written by Ross W. Duffin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music is an essential compilation of essays on all aspects of medieval music performance, with 40 essays by experts on everything from repertoire, voices, and instruments to basic theory. This concise, readable guide has proven indispensable to performers and scholars of medieval music.
Book Synopsis Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by : Sir George Grove
Download or read book Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians written by Sir George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France by : Mary O'Neill
Download or read book Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France written by Mary O'Neill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first full-length study of the courtly love songs of the trouvère to address the central musical problems of the repertoire as a whole, embracing source studies, interpretation, historiography, and analysis. The argument of the book revolves around three axes, each of which is essential to the appreciation of the others: problems concerning the extant manuscript tradition; the crucial role of orality; and stylistic changes and plurality in the reperotire. For the first time, a full overview of the sources and notation is undertaken. This reveals the idiosyncrasies of individual manuscripts but, more importantly, it identifies two basic phases in the manuscript tradition. The study of melodic variants reveals the performance art that lies at the heart of the courtly grand chant; processes and techniques of variation are examined, bringing us to a closer understanding of the tenets of the melodic art of the early trouvères. A close study of select trouvères from the different generation reveals stylstic change and plurality, particularly in the melodic art which in some respects was less prescribed than the poetic texts. Consequently the courtly songs of the trouvères truly come alive in this book.
Book Synopsis A History of Music in England by : Ernest Walker
Download or read book A History of Music in England written by Ernest Walker and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1907 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalog of Copyright Entries by : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture by : Suzannah Clark
Download or read book Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture written by Suzannah Clark and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays - collected in honour of Margaret Bent - examining how medieval and Renaissance composers responded to the tradition in which they worked through a process of citation of and commentary on earlier authors.
Book Synopsis Early Music History by : Iain Fenlon
Download or read book Early Music History written by Iain Fenlon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives preference to studies pursuing interdisciplinary approaches and to those developing novel methodological ideas. The scope is exceptionally broad and includes manuscript studies, textual criticism, iconography, studies of the relationship between words and music and the relationship between music and society. Articles in volume eleven include: Music and festivities at the court of Leo X: a Venetian view; Jean de Castro, the Pense partbooks and musical culture in sixteenth-century Lyons; The lost chant tradition of early Christian Jerusalem: some possible melodic survivals in the Byzantine and Latin chant repertories; Rome as the centre of the universe: papal grace and musical patronage.
Book Synopsis Tractatus Figurarum by : Philip Evan Schreur
Download or read book Tractatus Figurarum written by Philip Evan Schreur and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notational complexity, or subtilitas, was engendered in the late fourteenth century by a thorough probing of all the rhythmic possibilities within the accepted mensurations. As French and Italian notational practices began to diverge at the beginning of the Ars nova, composers invented new rhythmic symbols?figurae?asøtheir innovations required, and this resulted in a variety of notations that were as confusing to the musician of the day as they are to the modern scholar. In the third quarter of the fourteenth century, a notational system combining elements of the French and Italian systems was put forth in the Tractatus figurarum. This system proposed a standard of set of figurae for simultaneous combinations of any two of the four prolations of the French mensural system. Edmond Coussemaker?s 1869 edition of the Tractatus figurarum, which attributes the treatise to Philippus de Caserta, was based on his knowledge of only four of the fourteen surviving manuscripts. A critical study of all the sources, including the important Newberry Library manuscript, leads to a corrected version of the text and allows the entire system to be resurrected. The critical edition is joined with fully annotated translation on facing pages. An Introduction discusses the authorship and theory of the treatise, as well as placing it within the context of the music theory of the fourteenth century. Full descriptions of all the manuscript sources and four full-color plates of the Newberry Library manuscript are included. The system of the Tractatus figurarum was beautifully creative, but it did not meet with success. Nevertheless, the treatise proves itself invaluable to the study of the Ars subtilior in revealing certain basic notational principles that may be applied to surviving musical compositions, illuminating the notational subtleties in which the music delighted.
Book Synopsis Cambridge Music Manuscripts, 900-1700 by : Iain Fenlon
Download or read book Cambridge Music Manuscripts, 900-1700 written by Iain Fenlon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-08-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume marks the exhibition 'Cambridge Music Manuscripts, 900-1700', mounted in the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1982. It draws together fifty-three manuscripts of polyphony and monophony from the college and university libraries of Cambridge, all selected for their textual and historical importance. A full technical description of each source is followed by a critical appraisal, and in most cases at least one illustration is provided. Many of these manuscripts have never been adequately described in print, and this book will be a valuable work of reference for musicologists, historians and paleographers. Its plates will also provide a varied selection of transcription exercises for students of notation.
Book Synopsis The Facts on File Dictionary of Music by : Christine Ammer
Download or read book The Facts on File Dictionary of Music written by Christine Ammer and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Facts On File Dictionary of Music provides in-depth explanations and examples of more than 3
Book Synopsis Music and the moderni by : Karen Desmond
Download or read book Music and the moderni written by Karen Desmond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges current accounts of the French ars nova, a musical art that was both criticised and heralded for its modernity.
Book Synopsis Polyphony in Medieval Paris by : Catherine A. Bradley
Download or read book Polyphony in Medieval Paris written by Catherine A. Bradley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefines musical analysis for a period that marks the beginnings of composition as we know it now.
