Three medieval pieces
Author : Jonathan Elkus
Publisher :
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : Jonathan Elkus
Publisher :
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : Timothy J. McGee
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253013143
In Europe the tradition of secular dance has continued unbroken until the present. In the late Middle Ages it was an important and frequent event—for the nobility a gracious way to entertain guests, for the peasantry a welcome relaxation from the toils of the day. Now back in print, this collection presents compositions that are known or suspected to be instrumental dances from before ca. 1420. The 47 pieces vary in length and style and come from French, Italian, English, and Czech sources. Timothy McGee relates medieval dances to the descriptions found in literary, theoretical, and archival sources and to the depictions in the iconography of the Middle Ages. In a section on instrumental performance practices, he provides information about ornamenting the dances and improvising in a historically appropriate style. This comprehensive edition brings together in one volume a repertory that has been scattered over many years and countries.
Author : John Elkus
Publisher :
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : Sarah Kay
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 150176389X
Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating them in their immediate period, Sarah Kay fruitfully listens for and traces crosscurrents between medieval French and Occitan songs and both earlier poetry and much later opera. Reflecting on a song's songlike quality—as, for example, the sound of light in the dawn sky, as breathed by beasts, as sirenlike in its perils—Kay reimagines the diversity of songs from this period, which include inset lyrics in medieval French narratives and the works of Guillaume de Machaut, as works that are as much desired and imagined as they are actually sung and heard. Kay understands song in terms of breath, the constellations, the animal soul, and life itself. Her method also draws inspiration from opera, especially those that inventively recreate medieval song, arguing for a perspective on the manuscripts that transmit medieval song as instances of multimedia, quasi-operatic performances. Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera features a companion website (cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/medieval-song) hosting twenty-four audio or video recordings, realized by professional musicians specializing in early music, of pieces discussed in the book, together with performance scores, performance reflections, and translations of all recorded texts. These audiovisual materials represent an extension in practice of the research aims of the book—to better understand the sung dimension of medieval song.
Author : Lawrence Nees
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192842435
Earliest Christian art - Saints and holy places - Holy images - Artistic production for the wealthy - Icons & iconography.
Author : William Manchester
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2009-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0316082791
A "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth: the dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history's greatest poets, philosophers, painters, adventurers, and reformers, as well as some of its most spectacular villains. "Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born." --Chicago Tribune
Author : Perotin (Perotinus)
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 1999-08-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457468773
Perotin (Latin Perotinus) was a most gifted composer of the Notre Dame school, which, during the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, was the first school to produce polyphony of international acclaim. Four of the works included in this collection are organa. A Perotin organum consists of a liturgical chant melody and text, which forms the tenor or cantus firmus. Its rhythm is altered. In approximately the same vocal range, the composer added one, two or three other voices, the duplum, triplum and quadruplum, all of them in one of the six rhythmic patterns known as modi. Seven of the works included in this collection are motets. These originated throug the tradition of troping, which consisted of the addition of a text to a melismatic piece of music. In motets, it was the duplum of an organum or clausula which was troped. When this happend the duplum was called motetus, and this name was adapted for the entire composition.
Author : Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,58 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 : Mark Everist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 14,17 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 : Carl Parrish
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780918728081