Author: Lincoln Bunce SpiessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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An Introduction to the Pre-St. Martial Practical Sources of Early Polyphony
Author: Lincoln Bunce SpiessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Revisiting the Music of Medieval France
Author: Manuel Pedro FerreiraPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000949141
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This book presents together a number of path-breaking essays on different aspects of medieval music in France written by Manuel Pedro Ferreira, who is well known for his work on the medieval cantigas and Iberian liturgical sources. The first essay is a tour-de-force of detective work: an odd E-flat in two 16th-century antiphoners leads to the identification of a Gregorian responsory as a Gallican version of a seventh-century Hispanic melody. The second rediscovers a long-forgotten hypothesis concerning the microtonal character of some French 11th-century neumes. In the paper "Is it polyphony?" an even riskier hypothesis is arrived at: Do the origins of Aquitanian free organum lie on the instrumental accompaniment of newly composed devotional versus? The Cistercian attitude towards polyphonic singing, mirrored in musical sources kept in peripheral nunneries, is the subject of the following essay. The intellectual and sociological nature of the Parisian motet is the central concern of the following two essays, which, after a survey of concepts of temporality in the trouvère and polyphonic repertories, establish it as the conceptual foundation of subsequent European schools of composition. It is possible then to assess the real originality of Philippe de Vitry and his Ars nova, which is dealt with in the following chapter. A century later, the role of Guillaume Dufay in establishing a chord-based alternative to contrapuntal writing is laboriously put into evidence. Finally, an informative synthesis is offered concerning the mathematical underpinnings of musical composition in the Middle Ages.
The Notation of Medieval Music
Author: Carl ParrishPublisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780918728081
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Medieval Music
Author: John CaldwellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429575262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Originally published in 1978, Medieval Music explores the fascinating development of medieval western music from its often obscure origins in the Jewish synagogue and early Church, to the mid-fifteenth century. The book is intended as a straightforward survey of medieval music and emphases the technical aspects such as form, style and notation. It is illustrated by nearly one hundred musical examples, the majority of which have been transcribed from original sources and many of which contains chapters on Latin chant and other forms of sacred monophony, secular song, early polyphony, the ars antiqua, French and Italian fourteenth-century music, English music, and fifteenth-century music. Each chapter is followed by a classified bibliography divided into musical sources, literary sources and modern studies; in addition to a comprehensive bibliography.
Polyphony in Theory and Practice from the Ninth Century to the Close of the Thirteenth Century
Author: Lincoln Bunce SpiessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Counterpoint
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Music in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Author: Harold GleasonPublisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780882843797
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This is a complete revision of the second edition, designed as a guide and resource in the study of music from the earliest times through the Renaissance period. The authors have completely revised and updated the bibliographies; in general they are limited to English language sources. In order to facilitate study of this period and to use materials efficiently, references to facsimiles, monumental editions, complete composers' works and specialized anthologies are given. The authors present this systematic organization in this volume in the hope that students, teachers, and performers may find in it a ready tool for developing a comprehensive understanding of the music of this period.
Journal of the American Musicological Society
Author: American Musicological SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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The History of Music
Author: Music Literature Outlines: Music in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. 3rd ed
Author: Harold GleasonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Washington University Library Studies
Author: Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description