European Music, 1520-1640

European Music, 1520-1640
Author: James Haar
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2014
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 184383894X

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").

Early Music History

Early Music History
Author: Iain Fenlon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2009-03-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521104401

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives preference to studies pursuing interdisciplinary approaches and to those developing novel methodological ideas. The scope is exceptionally broad 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 fifteen include: Costanzo Festa's Gradus ad Parnassum; Scenes from the life of Silvia Galiarti Manni, a seventeenth-century virtuosa; Galeazzo Maria Sforza and musical patronage in Milan: Compere, Weerbeke and Josquin.

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.

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).

Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi

Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi
Author: Bella Brover-Lubovsky
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2008-06-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253028035

Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi incorporates an analytical study of Vivaldi's style into a more general exploration of harmonic and tonal organization in the music of the late Italian Baroque. The harmonic and tonal language of Vivaldi and his contemporaries, full of curious links between traditional modal thinking and what would later be considered common-practice major-minor tonality, directly reflects the historical circumstances of the shifting attitude toward the conceptualization of tonal space so crucial to Western art music. Vivaldi is examined in a completely new context, allowing both his prosaic and idiosyncratic sides to emerge clearly. This book contributes to a better understanding of Vivaldi's individual style, while illuminating wider processes of stylistic development and the diffusion of artistic ideas in the 18th century.

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 Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination

The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination
Author: David J. Kendall
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2022-10-31
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1793650365

The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination describes various systematic musical ecologies of the cosmos by examining attempts over time to define Western theoretical musical systems, whether practical, human, nonhuman, or celestial. This book focuses on the theoretical, theological, philosophical, physical, and mathematical concepts of a cosmic musical order and how these concepts have changed in order to fit different worldviews through the imaginations of theologians, theorists, and authors of fiction, as well as the practical performance of music. Special attention is given to music theory treatises between the ninth and sixteenth centuries, English-language hymnody from the eighteenth century to the present, polemical works on music and worship from the last hundred years, the Divine Comedy of Dante, nineteenth- and twentieth-century English-language fiction, the fictional works of C. S. Lewis, and the legendarium of J. R. R. Tolkien.

Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy

Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy
Author: Lynette Bowring
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253060079

Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought. An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy evaluates the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious circumstances that shaped this community, especially in light of the need to recognize individual experiences within minority populations. Contributors draw from rich materials, topics, and approaches as they explore the inherently diverse understandings of music in daily life, the many ways that Jewish communities conceived of music, and the reception of and responses to Jewish musical culture. Highlighting the multifaceted experience of music within Jewish communities, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.

Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta

Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta
Author: Margaret Bent
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2013-10-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1136534849

Musica ficta is the practice of sharpening or flattening certain notes to avoid awkward intervals in medieval and Renaissance music. This collection gathers Margaret Bent's influential writings on this controversial subject from the past 30 years, along with an extensive author's introduction discussing the current state of scholarship and responding to critics. Also includes 25 musical examples.