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Author : Severo Bonini
Publisher : Brigham Young University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Severo Bonini's Discorsi E Regole written by Severo Bonini and published by Brigham Young University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Angela Argenti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Severo Bonini, His Discorso and Affetti Spirituali written by Mary Angela Argenti and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stewart Carter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253005280
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music written by Stewart Carter and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance.
Author : Christopher Hatch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226319024
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past written by Christopher Hatch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, increased specialization has sharply separated music theory from historical musicology. Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past brings together a group of essays—written by theorists and musicologists—that seek to bridge this gap. This collection shows that music theory can join forces with historical musicology to produce a more humanistic form of musical scholarship. In nineteen essays dealing with musical theories from the twelfth to the twentieth century, two recurring themes emerge. One is the need to understand the historical circumstances of the writing and reception of theory, a humanistic approach that gives theory a place within social and intellectual history. The other is the advantages of applying contemporaneous theory to the music of a given period, thus linking theory to the history of musical styles and structures. The periods given principal attention in these essays are the Renaissance, the years around 1800, and the twentieth century. Abundantly illustrated with musical examples, Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past offers models of new practical applications of theory to the analysis of music. At the same time, it raises the broader question of how historical knowledge can deepen the understanding of an art and of systematic writings about that art.
Author : Andrew Dell'Antonio
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950100
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy written by Andrew Dell'Antonio and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early seventeenth century, when the first operas were written and technical advances with far-reaching consequences—such as tonal music—began to develop, is also notable for another shift: the displacement of aristocratic music-makers by a new professional class of performers. In this book, Andrew Dell’Antonio looks at a related phenomenon: the rise of a cultivated audience whose skill involved listening rather than playing or singing. Drawing from contemporaneous discourses and other commentaries on music, the visual arts, and Church doctrine, Dell’Antonio links the new ideas about cultivated listening with other intellectual trends of the period: humanistic learning, contemplative listening (or watching) as an active spiritual practice, and musical mysticism as an ideal promoted by the Church as part of the Catholic Reformation.
Author : Suzanne G. Cusick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633810X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court written by Suzanne G. Cusick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-07 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her performances and the sparkling wit of the music she composed for more than a dozen court theatricals, Caccini is best remembered today as the first woman to have composed opera. Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court reveals for the first time how this multitalented composer established a fully professional musical career at a time when virtually no other women were able to achieve comparable success. Suzanne G. Cusick argues that Caccini’s career depended on the usefulness of her talents to the political agenda of Grand Duchess Christine de Lorraine, Tuscany’s de facto regent from 1606 to 1636. Drawing on Classical and feminist theory, Cusick shows how the music Caccini made for the Medici court sustained the culture that enabled Christine’s power, thereby also supporting the sexual and political aims of its women. In bringing Caccini’s surprising story so vividly to life, Cusick ultimately illuminates how music making functioned in early modern Italy as a significant medium for the circulation of power.
Author : Giulia Nuti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351541595
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The Performance of Italian Basso Continuo written by Giulia Nuti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basso continuo accompaniment calls upon a complex tapestry of harmonic, rhythmic, compositional, analytical and improvisational skills. The evolving knowledge that underpinned the performance of basso continuo was built up and transmitted from the late 1500s to the second half of the eighteenth century, when changes in instruments together with the assertion of control by composers over their works brought about its demise. By tracing the development of basso continuo over time and across the regions of Italy where differing practices emerged, Giulia Nuti accesses this body of musical usage. Sources include the music itself, introductions and specific instructions and requirements in song books and operas, contemporary accounts of performances and, in the later period of basso continuo, description and instruction offered in theoretical treatises. Changes in instruments and instrumental usage and the resulting sounds available to composers and performers are considered, as well as the altering relationship between the improvising continuo player and the composer. Extensive documentation from both manuscript and printed sources, some very rare and others better known, in the original language, followed by a precise English translation, is offered in support of the arguments. There are also many musical examples, transcribed and in facsimile. Giulia Nuti provides both a scholarly account of the history of basso continuo and a performance-driven interpretation of how this music might be played.
Author : Clara Marvin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135617546
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina written by Clara Marvin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. This guide introduces students and scholars to the literature on Palestrina as well as the complicated history of the publication of his works. This bibliography is divided into four primary sections: historical background on musical, social, and cultural life; biographical literature; studies of sources, music, and style; and reception history. They are divided roughly into the periods dating from Palestrina's lifetime to about 1750; from about 1750 to about 1914; from 1914 to the present. This title also contains historical research on performance conditions and practices as they would have applied in Palestrina's time.
Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019775919X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Monteverdi's Voices written by Tim Carter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monteverdi's Voices provides a comprehensive account of the musical madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi. Author Tim Carter sheds light on how these wonderfully witty works played a key role in music-historical development, offering offer key insights into the cultural, social, and intellectual life of Europe on the cusp of modernity, and shows why they continue to be cornerstones of the repertory for performers of early music.
Author : Heinrich F. Plett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004227024
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Enargeia in Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age written by Heinrich F. Plett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study provides an extensive treatment of the topic of enargeia on the basis of the classical and humanist sources of its theoretical foundation. These serve as the basis for detailed analyses of verbal and pictorial works of the Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age.
Author : Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300096767
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (967 download)
Download or read book Monteverdi's Musical Theatre written by Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) is well known as the composer of the earliest operas still performed today. His Orfeo, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, and L'incoronazione di Poppea are internationally popular nearly four centuries after their creation. These seminal works represent only a part of Monteverdi's music for the stage, however. He also wrote numerous works that, while not operas, are no less theatrical in their fusion of music, drama and dance. This is a survey of Monteverdi's entire output of music for the theatre - his surviving operas, other dramatic musical compositions, and lost works.
Author : Marco Bizzarini
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351559605
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Luca Marenzio written by Marco Bizzarini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded by his contemporaries as the leading madrigal composer of his time, Luca Marenzio was an important figure in sixteenth-century Italian music, and also highly esteemed in England, Flanders and Poland. This English translation of Marco Bizzarini's study of the life and work of Marenzio provides valuable insights into the composer's influence and place in history, and features an extensive, up-to-date bibliography and the first published list of archival sources containing references to Marenzio. Women play a decisive role as dedicatees of Marenzio's madrigals and in influencing the way in which they were performed. Bizzarini examines in detail the influence of both female and male patrons and performers on Marenzio's music and career, including his connections with the confraternity of SS Trinit nd other institutions. Dedications were also a political tool, as the book reveals. Many of Marenzio's dedications were made at the request of his employer Cardinal d'Este who wanted to please his French allies. Bizzarini examines these extra-musical dimensions to Marenzio's work and discusses the composer's new musical directions under the more austere administration of Pope Clement VIII.
Author : James Haar
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 184383894X
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book European Music, 1520-1640 written by James Haar and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronological surveys of national musical cultures (in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany, England, and Spain), genre studies (Mass, motet, madrigal, chanson, instrumental music, opera), as well as essays on intellectual and cultural developments and concepts relevant to music (music theory, printing, the Protestant Reformation and the corresponding Catholic movement, humanism, the concepts of "Renaissance" and "Baroque").
Author : Massimo Ossi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226638839
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Divining the Oracle written by Massimo Ossi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-07-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudio Monteverdi's historical position in music has been compared to that of Shakespeare in literature: almost exact contemporaries, each worked from traditional beginnings to transform nearly every genre he attempted. In this book, Massimo Ossi delves into the most significant aspect of Monteverdi's career: the development, during the first years of the seventeenth century, of a new compositional style he called the seconda prattica or "second manner." Challenged in print for the unconventional aspects of his music, Monteverdi found himself at the center of a debate between defenders of Renaissance principles and the newest musical currents of the time. The principles of the seconda prattica, Ossi argues in this sophisticated analysis of Monteverdi's writings, music, and approaches to text-setting, were in fact much more significant to the course of Monteverdi's career than previously thought by modern scholars-not only did Monteverdi continue to pursue their aesthetic and theoretical implications for the rest of his life, but they also affected his dramatic compositions as well as his chamber vocal music and sacred works. Ossi "divines the oracle" of Monteverdi's ambiguous theoretical concepts in a clear way and in terms of pure music; his book will enhance our understanding of Monteverdi as one of the most significant figures in western music history.
Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198163701
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Con Che Soavità written by Iain Fenlon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by European, British, and American musicologists seeks to consolidate the recent growth of interest in seventeenth century studies. It includes discussions of leading composers, repertories, geographical issues, institutional contexts, and iconography.
Author : John Whenham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521284776
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo written by John Whenham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-02-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of the earliest opera to have gained a foothold in the modern repertoire, the book begins with a historical section in which all the known evidence about the creation and early performances of Orfeo is drawn together and evaluated. The second section of the book includes a detailed history of the rediscovery of the opera; an influential essay by Joseph Kerman is reprinted here, together with a review by Romain Rolland of the first modern performance of Orfeo. The final section includes essays by a conductor and a producer who have staged notable performances of the opera in recent years. They explain their approaches to the work, and offer solutions to some of the problems it poses in performance.
Author : American Musicological Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the American Musicological Society written by American Musicological Society and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
