Author : Sebastian Virdung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 1993-07-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521308305
This early German 'do-it-yourself' manual tells us about music-making in the years just before the Reformation.
Author : Keith Polk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2004
Category : 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.
Author : Ross W. Duffin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 2000
Category : 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.
Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2002-11-21
Category : 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.
Author : Michael R. Dodds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : 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.
Author : Jeffery Kite-Powell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : 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.
Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher :
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2001
Category : 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.
Author : Martin Agricola
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 1994-07-07
Category : 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.
Author : Laurenz Lütteken
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : 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.
Author : Stewart Pollens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : 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.
