Book Description
This volume presents a series of important essays on some of the problems involved in attempting to perform music of the late Middle Ages.
Author : Stanley Boorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521088312
This volume presents a series of important essays on some of the problems involved in attempting to perform music of the late Middle Ages.
Author : Ross W. Duffin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 16,66 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 : E. Upton
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 31,6 MB
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137277701
This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making.
Author : E. Upton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137310073
This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making.
Author : Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520314271
Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and Society of Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted. Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorize such an enormous amount of music and how music composed in the mind rather than in writing affected musical style, Anna Maria Busse Berger explores the impact of the art of memory on the composition and transmission of medieval music. Her fresh, innovative study shows that although writing allowed composers to work out pieces in the mind, it did not make memorization redundant but allowed for new ways to commit material to memory. Since some of the polyphonic music from the twelfth century and later was written down, scholars have long assumed that it was all composed and transmitted in written form. Our understanding of medieval music has been profoundly shaped by German philologists from the beginning of the last century who approached medieval music as if it were no different from music of the nineteenth century. But Medieval Music and the Art of Memory deftly demonstrates that the fact that a piece was written down does not necessarily mean that it was conceived and transmitted in writing. Busse Berger's new model, one that emphasizes the interplay of literate and oral composition and transmission, deepens and enriches current understandings of medieval music and opens the field for fresh interpretations.
Author : Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521818704
A challenging book which questions how much is really known about the way medieval music sounded.
Author : Tess Knighton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520210813
With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of music and culture in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to 1600. Fifty essays comment on the social, historical, theoretical, and performance contexts of the music and musicians of the period to offer fresh perspectives on musical styles, research sources, and performance practices of the medieval and Renaissance periods.
Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521746540
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 seven include: Music, ritual and patronage at the Church of Our Lady, Antwerp; Instrumental music in urban centres of Renaissance Germany; and the fourth-century origin of the gradual.
Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108577075
Spanning a millennium of musical history, this monumental volume brings together nearly forty leading authorities to survey the music of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. All of the major aspects of medieval music are considered, making use of the latest research and thinking to discuss everything from the earliest genres of chant, through the music of the liturgy, to the riches of the vernacular song of the trouvères and troubadours. Alongside this account of the core repertory of monophony, The Cambridge History of Medieval Music tells the story of the birth of polyphonic music, and studies the genres of organum, conductus, motet and polyphonic song. Key composers of the period are introduced, such as Leoninus, Perotinus, Adam de la Halle, Philippe de Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut, and other chapters examine topics ranging from musical theory and performance to institutions, culture and collections.
Author : Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1501727575
Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for medieval thinkers and then goes on to consider the ontology of music, the significance of comparisons between singers and birds, and the relationship between art and nature as enacted by the musical performance of late-medieval poetry. If birdsong was not music, how should we interpret the musical depiction of birdsong in human music-making? What does it tell us about the singers, their listeners, and the moral status of secular polyphony? Why was it the fourteenth century that saw the beginnings of this practice, continued to this day in the music of Messiaen and others?Leach explores medieval arguments about song, language, and rationality whose basic terms survive undiminished into the present. She considers not only lyrics that have their singers voice the songs or speech of birds but also those that represent other natural, nonmusical, sounds such as human cries or the barks of dogs. The dangerous sweetness of birdsong was invoked in discussions of musical ethics, which, because of the potential slippage between irrational beast and less rational woman in comparisons with rational human masculinity, depict women's singing as less than fully human. Leach's argument comes full circle with the advent of sound recording. This technological revolution-like its medieval equivalent, the invention of the music book-once again made the relationship between music and nature an acute preoccupation of Western culture.