Polyphonic Composition
Author : Owen Swindale
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Composition (Music)
ISBN :
Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara
Author : Laurie Stras
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107154073
Book Description
Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.
The Performance of 16th-Century Music
Author : Anne Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199793085
Book Description
Most modern performers, trained on the performance practices of the Classical and Romantic periods, come to the music of the Renaissance with well-honed but anachronistic ideas. Fundamental differences between 16th-century repertoire and that of later epochs thus tend to be overlooked-yet it is just these differences which can make a performance truly stunning. The Performance of 16th-Century Music will enable the performer to better understand this music and advance their technical and expressive abilities. Early music specialist Anne Smith outlines several major areas of technical knowledge and skill needed to perform the music of this period. She takes readers through the significance of part-book notation; solmization; rhythmic flexibility; and elements of structure in relation to rhetoric of the time; while familiarizing them with contemporary criteria and standards of excellence for performance. Through The Performance of 16th-Century Music, today's musicians will gain fundamental insight into how 16th-century polyphony functions, and the tools necessary to perform this repertoire to its fullest, most glorious potential.
Sixteenth Century Polyphony - A Basic For The Study Of Counterpoint
Author : Arthur Tillman Merritt
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 1473386861
Book Description
A. Tillman Merritt graduated from the University of Missouri in 1924 and was the first recipient of a new degree, Bachelor of Fine Arts, in 1926. That autumn he came to Harvard as a graduate student in music; recognition of his unusual talent was immediate. In February, 1927, he was asked to be Walter Piston's teaching assistant in music theory. This book is intended to be an introduction and guide to the early study of counterpoint, and deals with the construction of the single line and with the combination of two lines, three lines, and four lines.
A Manual of Sixteenth-century Contrapuntal Style
Author : Charlotte Smith
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780874133271
Book Description
This volume explores the expressive power of sixteenth-century vocal polyphony, giving special emphasis to the development of aural familiarity with the style. Every element of sixteenth-century counterpoint is defined, described, and liberally illustrated, included for analysis and singing are complete compositions and movements by Palestrina, Lasso, Victoria, Byrd, Morales, and Joaquin.
The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music
Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108671276
Book Description
Part of the seminal Cambridge History of Music series, this volume departs from standard histories of early modern Western music in two important ways. First, it considers music as something primarily experienced by people in their daily lives, whether as musicians or listeners, and as something that happened in particular locations, and different intellectual and ideological contexts, rather than as a story of genres, individual counties, and composers and their works. Second, by constraining discussion within the limits of a 100-year timespan, the music culture of the sixteenth century is freed from its conventional (and tenuous) absorption within the abstraction of 'the Renaissance', and is understood in terms of recent developments in the broader narrative of this turbulent period of European history. Both an original take on a well-known period in early music and a key work of reference for scholars, this volume makes an important contribution to the history of music.
Counterpoint
Author : Knud Jeppesen
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486318877
Book Description
First paperback edition of classic introductory text features history of contrapuntal theory, technical features, "species" exercises in 2-, 3- and 4-part counterpoint; canon, motet, Mass, more. Includes many musical examples.
A Companion to Music in Sixteenth-Century Venice
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9004358307
Book Description
This book offers an overview of all facets of musical life in sixteenth-century Venice. It addresses the city’s institutions (churches, confraternities, and academies) against the background of public and private occasions of music making. Supported by a generous collection of archival, literary, and iconographical sources, it treats both ceremonial life in the Serenissima and private forms of patronage. The Companion also addresses the dense web of musical activity (from chapel masters and singers to instrumentalists and instrument makers to music printers and theorists) and the rich variety of styles and musical genres (the frottola, the madrigal, motets and masses, instrumental music, polychoral music, Venetian-language polyphony), broadening the geographical perspective beyond the Veneto to Istria and Dalmatia. Contributors are Rodolfo Baroncini, Sherri Bishop, Bonnie J. Blackburn, David Bryant, Ivano Cavallini, Paolo Da Col, Daniel Donnelly, Rebecca Edwards, Iain Fenlon, Jonathan Glixon, Don Harrán (†), Jeffrey Kurtzman, Giulio M. Ongaro, Francesco Passadore, Elena Quaranta, Katelijne Schiltz, Eleanor Selfridge-Field, and Giovanni Zanovello.
Music in the Collective Experience in Sixteenth-century Milan
Author : Christine Suzanne Getz
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780754651215
Book Description
Using archival documents, music prints, manuscripts and contemporary writing, Getz examines the musical culture of sixteenth-century Milan. The book investigates the musician's role as an actor and a functionary in the political, religious, and social spectacles produced by the Milanese church, state and aristocracy within the city's diverse urban spaces. Furthermore, it establishes a context for the numerous motets, madrigals, and lute intabulations composed and printed in sixteenth-century Milan by examining their function within the urban milieu in which they were first performed.
Classical Polyphony
Author : P. Samuel Rubio
Publisher : Heritage
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 1972-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781487580599
Book Description
The name of P. Samuel Rubio is known to students of Renaissance polyphony for his scholarly articles in learned periodicals, his editorship of different collections of sacred polyphony, and through his edition of the motets of Victory -- Tomás Luis de Victoria, Motetes, Vols. 1-4 (union Musical Española, Madrid -- 1964). Text books -- in English -- on the subject of sixteenth-century counterpoint are numerous and excellent; but none discusses the classical polyphonic style with quite the understanding affection that Father Rubio brings to this task. His treatment of notation, time-signatures, the modes, chromatic alteration, is supported by opposite quotation from sixteenth-century authorities and his discussion of form and texture are based on a knowledge derived from wide experience in performance as well as close analytical study.
