Musica Getutscht

Musica Getutscht
Author: Sebastian Virdung
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1993-07-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0521308305

This early German 'do-it-yourself' manual tells us about music-making in the years just before the Reformation.

German Instrumental Music of the Late Middle Ages

German Instrumental Music of the Late Middle Ages
Author: Keith Polk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521612029

This book describes instrumental music and its context in German society of the late middle ages - from about 1350 to 1520. Players at that time improvised, much like jazz musicians of our day, but because they did not use notated music, only scant remnants of their activity have survived in written sources, and much has been left obscure. This book attempts to reconstruct an image of their music, discussing the instruments, ensembles, and performance practices of the time. What emerges from this study is a fundamental reappraisal of late medieval culture. A musical life is reconstructed which was not only extraordinary in its own time, but which also laid the foundations of an artistic culture that later produced such giants as Schütz, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.

A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music

A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music
Author: Ross W. Duffin
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2000
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780253215338

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.

Early Music History: Volume 21

Early Music History: Volume 21
Author: Iain Fenlon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2002-11-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521818872

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century 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 21 include: Aaron's interpretation of Isidore and an illustrated copy of the Toscanello; Musica mundana, Aristotelian natural philosophy and ptolemaic astronomy; The Triodia Sacra as a key source for late-Renaissance music in southern Germany; The debate over song in the Accademia Fiorentina.

From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory

From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory
Author: Michael R. Dodds
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2023-12-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199338159

From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory addresses one of the broadest and most elusive open topics in music history: the transition from the Renaissance modes to the major and minor keys of the high Baroque. Through deep engagement with the corpus of Western music theory, author Michael R. Dodds presents a model to clarify the factors of this complex shift.

A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music

A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music
Author: Jeffery Kite-Powell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2007-08-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253013771

Revised and expanded since it first appeared in 1991, the guide features two new chapters on ornamentation and rehearsal techniques, as well as updated reference materials, internet resources, and other new material made available only in the last decade. The guide is comprised of focused chapters on performance practice issues such as vocal and choral music; various types of ensembles; profiles of specific instruments; instrumentation; performance practice issues; theory; dance; regional profiles of Renaissance music; and guidelines for directors. The format addresses the widest possible audience for early music, including amateur and professional performers, musicologists, theorists, and educators.

Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages

Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages
Author: Reinhard Strohm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2001
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780198162056

This entirely new volume of NOHM takes account of developments in late-medieval music scholarship, along with significant changes in the performance practice of the late-medieval repertory, witnessed during the latter half of the 20th century.

The 'Musica Instrumentalis Deudsch' of Martin Agricola

The 'Musica Instrumentalis Deudsch' of Martin Agricola
Author: Martin Agricola
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1994-07-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521366403

Musica instrumentalis deudsch (1529) was intended as a textbook in musical performance. A completely revised edition appeared in 1545. Highly illustrated, these books give practical instruction on a number of musical instruments and as such they are valuable sources of information about the study and performance of music in Germany in the early sixteenth century.

Music of the Renaissance

Music of the Renaissance
Author: Laurenz Lütteken
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019-02-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520297903

Where previous accounts of the Renaissance have not fully acknowledged the role that music played in this decisive period of cultural history, Laurenz Lütteken merges historical music analysis with the analysis of the other arts to provide a richer context for the emergence and evolution of creative cultures across civilizations. This fascinating panorama foregrounds music as a substantial component of the era and considers musical works and practices in a wider cultural-historical context. Among the topics surveyed are music's relationship to antiquity, the position of music within systems of the arts, the emergence of the concept of the musical work, as well as music's relationship to the theory and practice of painting, literature, and architecture. What becomes clear is that the Renaissance gave rise to many musical concepts and practices that persist to this day, whether the figure of the composer, musical institutions, and modes of musical writing and memory.

A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments

A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments
Author: Stewart Pollens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2022-04-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108386482

This book explores the history of keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to the development of the modern piano. It reveals the principles of their design and describes structural and mechanical developments through the medieval and renaissance periods and eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, as well as the early music revival. Stewart Pollens identifies and describes the types of keyboard instruments played by major composers and virtuosi through the ages and provides the reader with detailed instructions on their regulating, stringing, tuning and voicing drawn from historical sources.