Musica Practica

Musica Practica
Author: Michael Chanan
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1994-10-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781859840054

Musica Practica is a historical investigation into the social practice of Western music which advances an alternative approach to that of established musicology. Citing evidence from Barthes, Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Max Weber and Schoenberg, Michael Chanan explores the communal roots of the musical tradition and the effects of notation on creative and performing practice. He appraises the psychological wellsprings of music using the insights of linguistics, semiotics and psychoanalysis. Tracing the growth of musical printing and the creation of a market for the printed score, he examines the transformation of patronage with the demise of the ancien régime, and draws on little-known texts by Marx to analyze the formation of the musical economy in the nineteenth century. Chanan sketches out an unwritten history of musical instruments as technology, from Tutankhamen’s trumpets to the piano, the ancient Greek water organ to the digital synthesizer. The book concludes with reflections on the rise of modernism and the dissolution of the European tradition in a sea of postmodernism and “world music.” Musica Practica assumes no specialist knowledge of music beyond an ordinary familiarity with common terms and an average acquaintance with the music of different styles and periods. It is a fascinating commentary on the soundtrack of daily life in the metropolis of the late twentieth century.

Reading Renaissance Music Theory

Reading Renaissance Music Theory
Author: Cristle Collins Judd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2000-11-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521771443

Enth. u.a. "The polyphony of Heinrich Glarean's 'Dodecachordon'" (S. 115-176).

The The Theoretical-Practical Elements of Music, Parts III and IV

The The Theoretical-Practical Elements of Music, Parts III and IV
Author: Francesco Galeazzi
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2012-06-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0252037081

A virtuoso violinist, conductor, composer, and a professor of mathematics and botany, Francesco Galeazzi (1758–1819) firmly believed that musical education should be clear, demonstrable, and practical. In 1791 and 1796, he published the two volumes of his Elementi teorico-practici di musica, a treatise that demonstrated both his thorough grounding in the work of earlier theorists and his own approach to musical study. The first volume gave precise instructions on the violin and how to play it; the second demonstrated his command of other instruments and genres and provided comprehensive introductions to music theory, music history, and music aesthetics. The treatise also addresses the nature of compositional process and eighteenth-century concerns about natural and acquired talent and creativity. This volume offers an unprecedented English translation of the second volume of Elementi teorico-practici di musica, with annotations and commentary. The translation is introduced with a study of Galeazzi's life and milieu, the genesis and sources for the Elementi, and its reception through the present day.

Musica Practica

Musica Practica
Author: Bartolomeo Ramos de Pareja
Publisher: American Institute of Musicology Hanssler Verlag
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1993
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Source Readings in Music History

Source Readings in Music History
Author: William Oliver Strunk
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 1584
Release: 1998
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393037524

The definitive collection of great writings on music from ancient Greece through the twentieth century.

Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice

Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice
Author: Nicola Vicentino
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 562
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780300066012

First published in Rome in 1555, Nicola Vicentino's treatise was one of the most influential music theory texts of the sixteenth century. This translation by Maria Rika Maniates is the first English-language edition of Vicentino's important work. Unlike most early theorists, Vicentino did not simply summarize the practice of his time. His aim was to change how composers wrote and how musicians thought about music. His best-known contribution is the adaptation of the ancient Greek chromatic and enharmonic genera to modern polyphonic practice. But he also expressed the avant-garde's position on the relation between music and the subject matter and feelings of a secular or sacred text. He challenged the view that part writing always had to conform to the rules of counterpoint, asserting that license was permissible in order to express the feelings of a verbal text. In this he anticipated the manifestos of Vincenzo Galilei and Claudio Monteverdi. Maniates' introduction discusses Vicentino's life and work, the sources of his ideas in earlier theoretical literature, and the contemporary humanists from whom he may have learned.

Heinrich Glarean's Books

Heinrich Glarean's Books
Author: Iain Fenlon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2013-08-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107434092

This collection of essays investigates the work of Heinrich Glarean, one of the most influential humanists and music theorists of the sixteenth century. For the first time, Glarean's musical writings, including his masterwork the Dodekachordon, are considered in the wider context of his work in a variety of disciplines such as musicology, history, theology and geography. Contributors reference books from Glarean's private library, including rare and previously unseen material, to explore his strategies and impact as a humanist author and university teacher. The book also uses other newly discovered source material such as course notes written by students and Glarean's preparations for his own lectures to offer a fascinating picture of his reactions to contemporary debates. Providing a detailed analysis of Glarean's library as reconstructed from the surviving copies, Heinrich Glarean's Books offers new and exciting perspectives on the multidisciplinary work of an accomplished intellectual.

The Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory

The Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory
Author: Stefano Mengozzi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2010-02-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0521884152

A detailed study of the sight-singing method introduced by the 11th-century monk Guido of Arezzo, in its intellectual context.