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Ars nova

Author : John L. Nádas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351575805
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Ars nova written by John L. Nádas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early fourteenth century, musicians in France and later Italy established new traditions of secular and sacred polyphony. This ars nova, or "new art," popularized by theorists such as Philippe de Vitry and Johannes de Muris was the among the first of many later movements to establish the music of the present as a clean break from the past. The rich music of this period, by composers such as Guillaume de Machaut and Francesco Landini, is not only beautiful, but also rewards deep study and analysis. Yet contradictions and gaps abound in the ars nova of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries-how do we read this music? how do we perform this music? what was the cultural context of these performances? These problems are well met by the ingenuity of approaches and solutions found by scholars in this volume. The twenty-seven articles brought together reflect the broad methodological and chronological range of scholarly inquiry on the ars nova.

De Proportionibus

Author : Johannes Ciconia
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803214651
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book De Proportionibus written by Johannes Ciconia and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannes Ciconia (ca. 1370?1412) is well known today as a composer both of sacred and secular music, but his theoretical works, probably written in Padua during the first decade of the fifteenth century, have until now been available only in manuscript form. This is the first complete edition of both of Ciconia?s theoretical works: the Nova musica, with its attendant De tribus generibus melorum, and the shorter De proportionibus, itself a revision of the third book of the Nova musica. ø The Nova musica is unique as the only only large-scale speculative work of the period known to have been written by an accomplished composer. The purpose of the work, clearly stated by Ciconia in the prologue, is to return to the writings of earlier authors (through the eleventh century) and, with their material as a basis, to redefine the scope of the discipline of music so that is may be classified and may function as one of the literary arts, in addition to its usual standing as a mathematical discipline. ø The first three books consist largely of quotations from earlier authors, covering the topics of consonance (intervals and the scale), species (modes), and proportions. Much of this material parallels large sections of the famous Lucidarium of Marchetto of Padua. ø In the fourth and final book, Ciconia demonstrated how, by means of the material already presented, chants can be classified and declined or parsed according to the principles of grammar. This new view of music can be regarded as a clear indication of the new humanistic approach to the arts. ø Two plates and more than one hundred figures illustrate the edition. The plates provide representative and contrasting examples of the handwriting and format of the illustrations in two of the principal sources.

Music and the moderni, 1300–1350

Author : Karen Desmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316733289
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Music and the moderni, 1300–1350 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: Music theorists labelled the musical art of the 1330s and 1340s as 'new' and 'modern'. A close reading of writings on music theory and the polyphonic repertory from the first half of the fourteenth century reveals a modern musical art that arose due to specific innovations in music notation. The French ars nova employed as its theoretical fundament a new system for arranging musical time proposed by the astronomer and mathematician Jean des Murs. Challenging prevailing accounts of the ars nova, this book presents the 'new art' within the intellectual context of its time, revises the datings of Jean des Murs's writings on music theory, and presents the intersection of theory and practice for a crucial era in the history of music. Through contemporaneous accounts, Desmond explores how individuals were involved in 'changing' music in early fourteenth-century France, and the technical developments they pursued that precipitated this stylistic change.

Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach

Author : Paul Walker
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580461504
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach written by Paul Walker and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the history and methodology of the pre-Bach baroque fugue.

Luther's Liturgical Music

Author : Robin A. Leaver
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506427162
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Luther's Liturgical Music written by Robin A. Leaver and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Luther's relationship to music has been largely downplayed, yet music played a vital role in Luther's life -- and he in turn had a deep and lasting effect on Christian hymnody. In Luther's Liturgical Music Robin Leaver comprehensively explores these connections. Replete with tables, figures, and musical examples, this volume is the most extensive study on Luther and music ever published. Leaver's work makes a formidable contribution to Reformation studies, but worship leaders, musicians, and others will also find it an invaluable, very readable resource.

The Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory

Author : Stefano Mengozzi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521884152
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory written by Stefano Mengozzi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of the sight-singing method introduced by the 11th-century monk Guido of Arezzo, in its intellectual context.

Composers at Work

Author : Jessie Ann Owens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195351665
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Composers at Work written by Jessie Ann Owens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Renaissance composers write their music? In this revolutionary look at a subject that has fascinated scholars for years, musicologist Jessie Ann Owens offers new and striking evidence that contrary to accepted theory, sixteenth-century composers did not use scores to compose--even to write complex vocal polyphony. Drawing on sources that include contemporary theoretical treatises, documents and letters, iconographical evidence, actual fragments of composing slates, and numerous sketches, drafts, and corrected autograph manuscripts, Owens carefully reconstructs the step-by-step process by which composers between 1450 and 1600 composed their music. The manuscript evidence--autographs of more than thirty composers--shows the stages of work on a wide variety of music--instrumental and vocal, sacred and secular--from across most of Renaissance Europe. Her research demonstrates that instead of working in full score, Renaissance composers fashioned the music in parts, often working with brief segments, according to a linear conception. The importance of this discovery on editorial interpretation and on performance cannot be overstated. The book opens with a broad picture of what has been known about Renaissance composition. From there, Owens examines the teaching of composition and the ways in which musicians and composers both read and wrote music. She also considers evidence for composition that occurred independent of writing, such as composing "in the mind" or composing with instruments. In chapters on the manuscript evidence, she establishes a typology both of the sources themselves and of their contents (sketches, drafts, fair copies). She concludes with case studies detailing the working methods of Francesco Corteccia, Henricus Isaac, Cipriano de Rore, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. This book will change the way we analyze and understand early music. Clear, provocative, and painstakingly researched, Composers at Work: The Craft of Musical Composition 1450-1600 makes essential reading for scholars of Renaissance music as well as those working in related fields such as sketch studies and music theory.

Heinrich Schenker

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Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780918728999
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Heinrich Schenker written by and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1966, the Reeseschrift remains one of the most significant collections of musicological writings ever assembled. Its fifty-six essays, written by some of the greatest scholars of our time, range chronologically from antiquity to the 17thcentury and geographically from Byzantium to the British Isles. They deal with questions of history, style, form, texture, notation, and performance practice.

Nova Musica Compendium

Author : Scott McGill
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781723238642
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Nova Musica Compendium written by Scott McGill and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique look into the creative world of studying with legendary Jazz Teacher and Theorist Dennis Sandole who is perhaps best known as John Coltrane's Theory and Improvisation teacher as well as being the teacher of James Moody, Benny Golson, McCoy Tyner, Jim Hall, Joe Diorio, Pat Martino, and Randy Brecker to name a few. Guitarist Scott McGill's text is over 400 pages of scans of his original assignments compiled while working with Sandole and includes Technical, Compositional and Improvisational studies applying Sandole's principles to Jazz Standards, an in-depth study of four note Guitar Chords with melody on every string, Exotic and Synthetic Scales and Arpeggios up to Twelve Notes and their application to Jazz improvisation, Classical and Jazz Transcriptions of works by Bartok, Debussy, Tatum, Tyner, and more. Invaluable to the serious advanced Jazz or Fusion Guitarist and useful for other instrumentalists as well.

Meter in Music, 1600–1800

Author : George Houle
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213914
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Meter in Music, 1600–1800 written by George Houle and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All practising musicians with an interest in the baroque owe it to themselves to be exposed to the ideas contained in this book." —Continuo "This is a book from an excellent musician in the early field who turns out also to be a most persistent scholar . . . " —Early Music " . . . the book offers a vast quantity of data from a wide range of sources. . . . George Houle is to be congratulated for his honest presentation of the entire spectrum." —Music Educators Journal The treatment of meter in performance has evolved dramatically since 1600. Here is a practical guide for the performer, with many quotations from early manuals and treatises, and abundant examples.

Music Theory in Seventeenth-century England

Author : Rebecca Herissone
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198167006
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis Music Theory in Seventeenth-century England by : Rebecca Herissone

Download or read book Music Theory in Seventeenth-century England written by Rebecca Herissone and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thus, over the course of the seventeenth century, there occurred a complete transformation in almost every aspect of theory: by the 1720s, many of the principles being described bore close relation to those still used today. Nowhere was this metamorphosis clearer than in England where, because of a traditional emphasis on practicality, there was much more willingness to accept and encourage new theoretical ideas than on the continent.

Musica Ficta

Author : Karol Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543385
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Musica Ficta written by Karol Berger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarifies the conventions governing the practice of implied accidentals in vocal polyphony from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.

Rethinking the Musical Instrument

Author : Mine Doğantan-Dack
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527578968
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Musical Instrument written by Mine Doğantan-Dack and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together scholars and artist-researchers to explore the nature and function of musical instruments in creative practices, and their role in musical culture. Through historical, theoretical, critical, practical-artistic perspectives and case studies, the contributors here examine identities and affordances of acoustical, electronic and digital musical instruments, the kinds of relationships that composers and performers establish with them, and the crucial role they play in the emergence of musical experiences and meanings.

Worship Music

Author : Edward Foley
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814658895
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book Worship Music written by Edward Foley and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Western music is intimately tied to the worship of Christians and Jews. It was the Church and synagogue that provided the context for the development of Gregorian chant, the motet, the cantana, and virtually every important theorist, composer, and performer from Ambrose to Zwingli. Worship Music provides concise information on the people, terms, places, and elements of this worship. Ecumenical in scope and cross-cultural in its perspective, Worship Music focuses on the worship music of English-speaking North Americans. Its over 2,500 entries range across every major denomination within Western Christianity, the Byzantine/Slav tradition, and Judaism. Over 60 contributors represent the traditions addressed in the dictionary, providing authenticity in representing the tradition and an insider's perspective on contemporary practices. The dictionary is shaped through the lens of "ritual music which focuses on the function of music in worship (or asks the question of the function of music in worship. It includes brief descriptions, histories, and explanations of musical-liturgical terms and personnel. Bibliographies and extensive cross-referencing can be found throughout the volume. Designed not just for pastoral musicians but all musicians?amateurs, students and professionals?as well as liturgists, Worship Music is an indispensable guide to the musical aspects of worship. Contributors include: Allen Barthel James Brauer Michael Driscoll Rosemary Dubowchik John Foley Virgil Funk Victor Gebauer Fred Graham Joan Halmo Robert Hawkins Lawrence Heiman Paul Jacobson Martin Jean Michael Joncas Columba Kelly Martha Kirk James Kosnik Robin Leaver , Austin Lovelace Mary McGann Nathan Mitchell Fred Moleck Charles Pottie Todd Ridder Anthony Ruff Carl Schalk Rebecca Slough Gordon Truitt J. Kevin Waters John Weaver Paul Westermeyer Carlton Young , Edward Foley, Capuchin, is professor of liturgy and music at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He is the author of numerous books including Foundations of Christian Music and Music and the Eucharistic Prayer from the American Essays in Liturgy series for which he is the editor.

The Performance of 16th-Century Music

Author : Anne Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199793085
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Performance of 16th-Century Music written by Anne Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most modern performers, trained on the performance practices of the Classical and Romantic periods, come to the music of the Renaissance with well-honed but anachronistic ideas. Fundamental differences between 16th-century repertoire and that of later epochs thus tend to be overlooked-yet it is just these differences which can make a performance truly stunning. The Performance of 16th-Century Music will enable the performer to better understand this music and advance their technical and expressive abilities. Early music specialist Anne Smith outlines several major areas of technical knowledge and skill needed to perform the music of this period. She takes readers through the significance of part-book notation; solmization; rhythmic flexibility; and elements of structure in relation to rhetoric of the time; while familiarizing them with contemporary criteria and standards of excellence for performance. Through The Performance of 16th-Century Music, today's musicians will gain fundamental insight into how 16th-century polyphony functions, and the tools necessary to perform this repertoire to its fullest, most glorious potential.

Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum

Author : Thomas J. Mathiesen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803235311
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum written by Thomas J. Mathiesen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum is a full-text database of music theory written in Latin, extending from Augustine?s De musica through treatises of the sixteenth century. This new edition of the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum: Canon of Data Files includes full instructions on the various ways in which users can access the database, as well as the ?Principles of Orthography? and ?Table of Codes for Noteshapes, Rests, Ligatures, Mensuration Signs, Clefs, and Miscellaneous Figures,? both of which provide essential explanations of the special ways in which the texts have been encoded to facilitate searching and maximize use within various computer environments. Also included is a table of contents for the major series of texts found in the TML. The Canon provides for each separate edition a bibliographic record of the name of the author; title of the treatise; incipit; source of the text; the names of the individuals responsible for entering, checking, and approving the data; the name and location of the data file as it appears within the TML; the size of the file; and annotations identifying accompanying graphics and various other types of pertinent data. The Canon is followed by a full alphabetical index of incipits, keyed to both the Canon itself through author and title and to the database through the name of the data file as it appears within the TML.

Medieval France

Author : William W. Kibler
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0824044444
Total Pages : 2071 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Medieval France written by William W. Kibler and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 2071 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged alphabetically, with a brief introduction that clearly defines the scope and purpose of the book. Illustrations include maps, B/W photographs, genealogical tables, and lists of architectural terms.