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Author : Gordon Athol Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gordon Athol Anderson, 1929-1981: Bent-Gillingham written by Gordon Athol Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Everist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 110701039X
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Discovering Medieval Song written by Mark Everist and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.
Author : Mariani Smith Mariani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019063118X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music written by Mariani Smith Mariani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to medieval music as living repertoire. The book provides philosophical frameworks, primary-source analysis, and clear, actionable practices and exercises aimed at recovering the improvisatory and inventive aspects of medieval music for contemporary musicians. Aimed at both instrumentalists and vocalists, the book explores the utilization of musical models, the inventive implications of medieval notation, and the ways in which memory, mode, rhetoric, and primary source paradigms inform the improvisatory process in both monophonic and polyphonic music of the Middle Ages. Angela Mariani, an experienced performer of both medieval music and folk and traditional musics, rediscovers and explicates the processes of imagination, invention, and improvisation which historically energized both medieval music in its own period and in its revival in our own time. Based on decades of research, university teaching, ensemble direction, collaboration, and performance, Mariani's impassioned stance that "the elusive element of inventio, as the medieval rhetoricians would have called it, must always be provided by the performer in the present," emphasizes medieval music performance practice as a dynamic and still-vital tradition. Students, teachers, directors, and those interested in the wealth of expressive beauty found in the music of the middle ages will likewise find value and meaning in her clear and accessible prose, and in the practical processes and exercises that make this book unique within the literature of medieval performance practice.
Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108577075
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
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.
Author : David Hiley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198165729
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (657 download)
Download or read book Western Plainchant written by David Hiley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.
Author : Angela Mariani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190631198
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music written by Angela Mariani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to medieval music as living repertoire. The book provides philosophical frameworks, primary-source analysis, and clear, actionable practices and exercises aimed at recovering the improvisatory and inventive aspects of medieval music for contemporary musicians. Aimed at both instrumentalists and vocalists, the book explores the utilization of musical models, the inventive implications of medieval notation, and the ways in which memory, mode, rhetoric, and primary source paradigms inform the improvisatory process in both monophonic and polyphonic music of the Middle Ages. Angela Mariani, an experienced performer of both medieval music and folk and traditional musics, rediscovers and explicates the processes of imagination, invention, and improvisation which historically energized both medieval music in its own period and in its revival in our own time. Based on decades of research, university teaching, ensemble direction, collaboration, and performance, Mariani's impassioned stance that "the elusive element of inventio, as the medieval rhetoricians would have called it, must always be provided by the performer in the present," emphasizes medieval music performance practice as a dynamic and still-vital tradition. Students, teachers, directors, and those interested in the wealth of expressive beauty found in the music of the middle ages will likewise find value and meaning in her clear and accessible prose, and in the practical processes and exercises that make this book unique within the literature of medieval performance practice.
Author : stephen pleskun
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664105115
Total Pages : 1452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)
Download or read book A Chronological History of Australian Composers and Their Compositions 1901-2020 written by stephen pleskun and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 1452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume II of the improved 2nd edition. There are 6 volumes in all comprising some 900 composers and 40,000 compositions. Included is the founding and demise of music ensembles, institutions, venues and festivals. With musicians, performers, conductors, entrepreneurs, educators, administrators, instrument makers, musicologists, music critics and philanthropists part of the broad narrative. Touring artists in Australia are admitted at the bottom of each year. This edition has been enhanced by the inclusion of many hundreds of relevant photographs, drawings and artwork. The most comprehensive account of Australian Classical music is in your hands.
Author : James Grier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558631
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)
Download or read book The Critical Editing of Music written by James Grier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book follows the activities inherent in music editing, including the tasks of the editor, the nature of musical sources, and transcription. Grier also discusses the difficult decisions faced by the editor such as sources not associated with the composer and necessary editorial judgement.
Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521401609
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Plainsong in the Age of Polyphony written by Thomas Forrest Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the variation in plainsong, its living quality, that these essays address.
Author : Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316298299
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music written by Anna Maria Busse Berger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics. Multidisciplinary studies of music and architecture, feasting, poetry, politics, liturgy, and religious devotion rub shoulders with studies of compositional techniques, musical notation, music manuscripts, and reception history. Generously illustrated with figures and examples, this volume paints a vibrant picture of musical life in a period characterized by extraordinary innovation and artistic achievement.
Author : Anna Zayaruznaya
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351398601
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Upper-Voice Structures and Compositional Process in the Ars Nova Motet written by Anna Zayaruznaya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the motets of Philippe de Vitry, Guillaume de Machaut, and their contemporaries, tenors have often been characterized as the primary shaping forces, prior in conception as well as in construction to the upper voices. Tenors are shaped by the interaction of talea and color, medieval terms now used to refer to the independent repetition of rhythms and pitches, respectively. The presence in the upper voices of the periodically repeating rhythmic patterns, often referred to as "isorhythm," has been characterized as an amplification of tenor structure. But a fresh look at the medieval treatises suggests a revised analytical vocabulary: for many fourteenth- and fifteenth-century writers, both color and talea involved rhythmic repetition, the latter in the upper voices specifically. And attention to upper-voice taleae independently of tenor structures brings renewed emphasis to the significant portion of the repertory in which upper voices evince formal schemes that differ from those in the tenors. These structures in turn suggest a revision of the presumed compositional process for motets, implying that in some cases upper-voice text and forms may have preceded the selection and organization of tenors. Such revisions have implications for hermeneutic endeavors, since not only the forms of motet voices but the meanings of their texts change, depending on whether analysis proceeds from the tenor up, or from the top down. Where the presumed compositional and structural primacy afforded to tenors has encouraged a strand of interpretation that reads the upper-voice poetry as conforming to, and amplifying, the tenor text snippets and their liturgical contexts, a "bottom-down" view casts tenors in a supporting role and reveals the poetic impulse of the upper voices as the organizing principle of motets.
Author : Nancy Elizabeth Van Deusen
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791441305
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (413 download)
Download or read book The Place of the Psalms in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle Ages written by Nancy Elizabeth Van Deusen and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-03-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psalms were an important part of the education, daily life, and spiritual development of medieval clerics and monks, and they had a significant impact on lay culture as well. The Place of the Psalms in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle Ages surveys their influence, giving a unique window into the intellectual, spiritual, and emotional culture of the period.
Author : International Musicological Society. Congress
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198167341
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Musicology and Sister Disciplines written by International Musicological Society. Congress and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the work of leading experts from around the globe, Musicology and Sister Disciplines provides the definitive, authoritative statement on the scope of musicology today and its relationship to other fields of academic endeavour, including philosophy and aesthetics, literary studies, art history, mathematics, computer science, historiography, and sociology. These groundbreaking papers represent the outcome of a major musicological conference in 1997, and include contributions from the philosopher Bernard Williams and world-famous mathematician Roger Penrose.
Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521619349
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book The Rise of European Music, 1380-1500 written by Reinhard Strohm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed and comprehensive survey of music in the late middle ages and early Renaissance. By limiting its scope to the 120 years which witnessed perhaps the most dramatic expansion of our musical heritage, the book responds, in the 1990s, to the tremendous increase in specialised research and public awareness of that period. Three of the four main Parts (I, II, IV) describe the development of polyphony and its cultural contexts in many European countries, from the successors of Machaut (d. 1377) to the achievements of Josquin des Prez and his contemporaries working in Renaissance Italy around 1500. Part III, by contrast, illustrates the musical life of the institutions, and musical practices outside the realm of composed polyphony that were traditional and common all over Europe. The book proposes fresh views in each chapter, discussing dozens of musical examples adducing well-known and hitherto unknown documents, and referring to and evaluating the most recent scholarship in the field.
Author : Leo Treitler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 019921476X
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book With Voice and Pen written by Leo Treitler and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Treitler's seventeen classic essays trace the creation and spread of song (cantus), sacred and secular, through oral tradition and writing, in the European Middle Ages. The author examines songs in particular - their design, their qualities and character, their expressive meanings, and their adaptation to their communal and ritual roles - and explores the chances for, and the obstacles to, our understanding of traditions that were alive a thousand years ago. Ranging from c. 900 (when the written transmission of medieval songs began) to 1200, Treitler shows how the earlier, purely oral traditions can be examined only through the lens of what has been captured in writing, and focuses on the invention and uses of writing systems for representing these oral traditions. Each of these seminally influential essays has been revised to take account of recent developments, and is prefaced with a new introduction to highlight the historical issues. The accompanying CD contains performances of much of the music discussed.
Author : Benjamin Brand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107158370
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond written by Benjamin Brand and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume offer diverse, innovative approaches to medieval music and culture.
Author : International Musicological Society. Congress
Publisher : EDT srl
ISBN 13 : 9788870630848
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Atti del XIV congresso della Società internazionale di musicologia: Round tables written by International Musicological Society. Congress and published by EDT srl. This book was released on 1990 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
