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Medieval Instrumental Dances

Author : Timothy J. McGee
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253013149

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Medieval Instrumental Dances by Timothy J. McGee Pdf

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.

The Middle Eastern Influence on Late Medieval Italian Dances

Author : Michele Temple
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110401242

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The Middle Eastern Influence on Late Medieval Italian Dances by Michele Temple Pdf

This work focuses on eight of the dances, the 'istampittas,' linked etymologically to the 'estampie,' a French dance, whose origins are here examined with an eye toward Italian and French music and civilization, as well as the music and society of the Arabs.

A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music

Author : Ross W. Duffin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253215331

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A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music by Ross W. Duffin Pdf

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.

The Carole: A Study of a Medieval Dance

Author : Robert Mullally
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351545778

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The Carole: A Study of a Medieval Dance by Robert Mullally Pdf

The carole was the principal social dance in France and England from c. 1100 to c. 1400 and was frequently mentioned in French and English medieval literature. However, it has been widely misunderstood by contributors in recent citations in dictionaries and reference books, both linguistic and musical. The carole was performed by all classes of society - kings and nobles, shepherds and servant girls. It is described as taking place both indoors and outdoors. Its central position in the life of the people is underlined by references not only in what we might call fictional texts, but also in historical (or quasi-historical) writings, in moral treatises and even in a work on astronomy. Dr Robert Mullally's focus is very much on details relevant to the history, choreography and performance of the dance as revealed in the primary sources. This methodology involves attempting to isolate the term carole from other dance terms not only in French, but also in other languages. Mullally's groundbreaking study establishes all the characteristics of this dance: etymological, choreographical, lyrical, musical and iconographical.

Medieval French Dances

Author : Serkan Özçifci
Publisher : Serkan Özçifci
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Medieval French Dances by Serkan Özçifci Pdf

Medieval French Dances aims to introduce a historical music repertoire through a historical notation. In this work, eight estampies and three danses found in Manuscrit du Roi (Français 844) are transcribed into white mensural notation. Thus, access to this set of pieces is provided through an intermediate formula that preserves its practicality without breaking the communication with the musical language of the period, rather than today's staff notation which does not allow to establish a direct connection with the mensuration principles of the Middle Ages. In addition, it is hoped that the knowledge to be gained by studying the notation guide in this edition would also facilitate contact with the rich musical repertoire of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

An English Medieval and Renaissance Song Book

Author : Noah Greenberg
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486413748

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An English Medieval and Renaissance Song Book by Noah Greenberg Pdf

"An elegant anthology. The specialist will not miss the quiet sophistication with which the music has been selected and prepared. Some of it is printed here for the first time, and much of it has been edited anew." "Notes" This treasury of 47 vocal works edited by Noah Greenberg, founder and former director of the New York Pro Musica Antiqua will delight all lovers of medieval and Renaissance music. Containing a wealth of both religious and secular music from the 12th to the 17th centuries, the collection covers a broad range of moods, from the hearty "Blow Thy Horne Thou Jolly Hunter" by William Cornysh to the reflective and elegiac "Cease Mine Eyes" by Thomas Morley. Of the religious works, nine were written for church services, including "Sanctus" by Henry IV and "Angus Dei" from a beautiful four-part mass by Thomas Tallis. Other religious songs in the collection come from England's rich tradition of popular religious lyric poetry, and include William Byrd's "Susanna Farye," the anonymously written "Deo Gracias Anglia" (The Agincort Carol), and Thomas Ravenscroft's "O Lord, Turne Now Away Thy Face" and "Remember O Thou Man." Approximately half of the songs are secular, some from the popular tradition and others from the courtly poets and musicians surrounding such musically inclined monarchs as Henry VIII who himself is represented in this collection with two charming songs, "With Owt Dyscorde" and "O My Hart." Among the notable composers of Tudor and Elizabethan England represented here are Orlando Gibbons, John Dowland, and Thomas Weelkes. "

Routledge Revivals: Medieval France (1995)

Author : William W. Kibler,Grover A. Zinn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351665667

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval France (1995) by William W. Kibler,Grover A. Zinn Pdf

First published in 1995, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia is the first single-volume reference work on the history and culture of medieval France. It covers the political, intellectual, literary, and musical history of the country from the early fifth to the late fifteenth century. The shorter entries offer succinct summaries of the lives of individuals, events, works, cities, monuments, and other important subjects, followed by essential bibliographies. Longer essay-length articles provide interpretive comments about significant institutions and important periods or events. The Encyclopedia is thoroughly cross-referenced and includes a generous selection of illustrations, maps, charts, and genealogies. It is especially strong in its coverage of economic issues, women, music, religion and literature. This comprehensive work of over 2,400 entries will be of key interest to students and scholars, as well as general readers.

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music

Author : Angela Mariani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190631208

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Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music by Angela Mariani Pdf

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to medieval music as living repertoire. The book provides philosophical frameworks, primary-source analysis, and clear, actionable practices and exercises aimed at recovering the improvisatory and inventive aspects of medieval music for contemporary musicians. Aimed at both instrumentalists and vocalists, the book explores the utilization of musical models, the inventive implications of medieval notation, and the ways in which memory, mode, rhetoric, and primary source paradigms inform the improvisatory process in both monophonic and polyphonic music of the Middle Ages. Angela Mariani, an experienced performer of both medieval music and folk and traditional musics, rediscovers and explicates the processes of imagination, invention, and improvisation which historically energized both medieval music in its own period and in its revival in our own time. Based on decades of research, university teaching, ensemble direction, collaboration, and performance, Mariani's impassioned stance that "the elusive element of inventio, as the medieval rhetoricians would have called it, must always be provided by the performer in the present," emphasizes medieval music performance practice as a dynamic and still-vital tradition. Students, teachers, directors, and those interested in the wealth of expressive beauty found in the music of the middle ages will likewise find value and meaning in her clear and accessible prose, and in the practical processes and exercises that make this book unique within the literature of medieval performance practice.

Tanz und Musik

Author : Christelle Cazaux,Agnese Pavanello,Martina Papiro
Publisher : Schwabe Verlag (Basel)
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783796549731

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Tanz und Musik by Christelle Cazaux,Agnese Pavanello,Martina Papiro Pdf

Wie beeinflussen Tanzbewegungen die musikalische Spielweise? Und umgekehrt: Welche Wirkung hat die musikalische Interpretation auf die Ausführung einer Choreografie? Wie stehen tänzerische und melodische Phrasierung zueinander? Derlei Fragen zum Verhältnis von Tanz und Musik ergeben sich sowohl bei der praktischen Ausführung als auch bei der Erforschung historischer ‹Tanzmusik›. Entsprechend vielseitig sind die Zugänge, mit denen dieser interdisziplinäre Band ‹Tanzmusik› vom Mittelalter bis zur Romantik untersucht, kontextualisiert und im Sinne historischer Musikpraxis erschließt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Klang und Bewegung in verschiedenen historischen Repertoires, Gattungen und Formen.

Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England

Author : Richard Rastall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781837650392

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Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England by Richard Rastall Pdf

A major new study piecing together the intriguing but fragmentary evidence surrounding the lives of minstrels to highlight how these seemingly peripheral figures were keenly involved with all aspects of late medieval communities. Minstrels were a common sight and sound in the late Middle Ages. Aristocrats, knights and ladies heard them on great occasions (such as Edward I's wedding feast for his daughter Elizabeth in 1296) and in quieter moments in their chambers; town-dwellers heard and saw them in civic processions (when their sound drew attention to the spectacle); and even in the countryside people heard them at weddings, church-ales and other parish celebrations. But who were the minstrels, and what did they do? How did they live, and how easily did they make a living? How did they perform, and in what conditions? The evidence is intriguing but fragmentary, including literary and iconographic sources and, most importantly, the financial records of royal and aristocratic households and of towns. These offer many insights, although they are often hard to fit into any coherent picture of the minstrels' lives and their place in society. It is easy to see the minstrels as peripheral figures, entertainers who had no central place in the medieval world. Yet they were full members of it, interacting with the ordinary people around them, as well as with the ruling classes: carrying letters and important verbal messages, some lending huge sums of money to the king (to finance Henry V's Agincourt campaign in 1415, for instance), some regular and necessary civic servants, some committing crimes or suffering the crimes of others. In this book Rastall and Taylor bring to bear the available evidence to enlarge and enrich our view of the minstrel in late medieval society.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment

Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199314218

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment by Mark Franko Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint. Synthesizing myriad views on danced reenactment and the manner in which this branch of choreographic performance intersects with important cultural concerns around appropriation this Handbook addresses originality, plagiarism, historicity, and spatiality as it relates to cultural geography. Others topics treated include transmission as a heuristic device, the notion of the archive as it relates to dance and as it is frequently contrasted with embodied cultural memory, pedagogy, theory of history, reconstruction as a methodology, testimony and witnessing, theories of history as narrative and the impact of dance on modernist literature, and relations of reenactment to historical knowledge and new media.

Singing Early Music

Author : Timothy J. McGee,A. G. Rigg,David N. Klausner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0253210267

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Singing Early Music by Timothy J. McGee,A. G. Rigg,David N. Klausner Pdf

Accompanying CD includes readings of most of the sample texts found in the book. The CD is intended to assist in interpreting the phonetic symbols, which are truncated in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet).

Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

Author : Margaret Schaus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415969444

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Women and Gender in Medieval Europe by Margaret Schaus Pdf

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Renaissance dances

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0769294855

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Renaissance dances by Anonim Pdf

This wonderful book with CD is a must for music, dance, or classroom teachers teaching about the Renaissance. Historical information about the Renaissance is included as well as easy-to-follow dance graphics. Each dance is provided in three formats: CD dance-along orchestrations with authentic Renaissance sounds, classroom recorder/Orff instrument arrangements, and piano arrangements. These dances are fun and accessible for students in grades 5 and higher.

Medieval and Renaissance Music

Author : Timothy James McGee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Music
ISBN : 0802067298

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Medieval and Renaissance Music by Timothy James McGee Pdf

Over the past twenty-five years Europe and North America have witnessed an enormous revival of interest in early music. Since the late 1950s numerous professional and amateur ensembles have delighted audiences with the vocal and instrumental music of the twelffth to the sixteenth centuries, while scholars have addressed themselves to the many problems involved in its authentic re-creation. This book unites the two fields; it is both a summary of the most recent scholarly investigations into the subject and a practical guide to the performance of early music based on the experience of the author and others who have performed a sizable portion of the early repertory. McGee lays out clearly the foundation and background of each of the performance problems, presenting the most recent research and pointing out areas of incomplete knowledge and controversy, and then introduces practical solutions based on the scholarship. All the topics necessary for a historical performance of early music are discussed: tempo, rhythmic flow, instrumentation, ornamentation, articulation, improvisation, style, and singing technique, along with some practical hints for selecting a program and shoosing substitute instruments. The final chapters is a reference guide to modern editions of the music and an introduction to the scholarly literature on early music performances. At the time of publication, this book was the first to address the problem of how to perform medieval and Renaissance music. It is intended for both the amateur performing musician and the serious student.