Medieval Music

Author : John Caldwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429575266

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Medieval Music by John Caldwell Pdf

Originally published in 1978, Medieval Music explores the fascinating development of medieval western music from its often obscure origins in the Jewish synagogue and early Church, to the mid-fifteenth century. The book is intended as a straightforward survey of medieval music and emphases the technical aspects such as form, style and notation. It is illustrated by nearly one hundred musical examples, the majority of which have been transcribed from original sources and many of which contains chapters on Latin chant and other forms of sacred monophony, secular song, early polyphony, the ars antiqua, French and Italian fourteenth-century music, English music, and fifteenth-century music. Each chapter is followed by a classified bibliography divided into musical sources, literary sources and modern studies; in addition to a comprehensive bibliography.

Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107495128

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music by Mark Everist Pdf

From the emergence of plainsong to the end of the fourteenth century, this Companion covers all the key aspects of medieval music. Divided into three main sections, the book first of all discusses repertory, styles and techniques - the key areas of traditional music histories; next taking a topographical view of the subject - from Italy, German-speaking lands, and the Iberian Peninsula; and concludes with chapters on such issues as liturgy, vernacular poetry and reception. Rather than presenting merely a chronological view of the history of medieval music, the volume instead focuses on technical and cultural aspects of the subject. Over nineteen informative chapters, fifteen world-leading scholars give a perspective on the music of the Middle Ages that will serve as a point of orientation for the informed listener and reader, and is a must-have guide for anyone with an interest in listening to and understanding medieval music.

Author : Ross W. Duffin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 42,6 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.

Author : Jeremy Yudkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190206128

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Music in Medieval Europe by Jeremy Yudkin Pdf

Combines a complete history and score anthology for students of medieval music, Music in Medieval Europe combines a cultural history of the Middle Ages and in-depth scholarship on the music and leading composers active during the period. The text includes an integrated anthology of key works with approachable and enlightening explanations, making it easily accessible to both beginning and advanced students. Its chronological organization, broad scope, and detailed music analyses makes Music in Medieval Europe an ideal introductory text. Features, Covers the major composers, musical styles, and works of the medieval period, An in-text anthology features all of the major works, eliminating the need for a separate purchase, A wide variety of source materials, all translated by Jeremy Yudkin, offers fresh interpretations of classic works, Illustrations of source manuscripts and artwork provide added context Book jacket.

Author : Jane D. Hatter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108474917

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Composing Community in Late Medieval Music by Jane D. Hatter Pdf

An exploration of what self-referential compositions reveal about late medieval musical networks, linking choirboys to canons and performers to theorists.

Author : Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520930643

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Medieval Music and the Art of Memory by Anna Maria Busse Berger Pdf

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 : Mark Everist,Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108577076

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The Cambridge History of Medieval Music by Mark Everist,Thomas Forrest Kelly Pdf

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 : Honey Meconi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754628515

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Medieval Music by Honey Meconi Pdf

This selection of classic essays on music performance practice of the Middle Ages addresses the most crucial of performers' decisions: pitch, rhythm and performing forces, as well as related matters such as proportions, tunings and the need for ornamentation. The volume includes essays on all types of music - monophony and polyphony, sacred and secular - and the introduction provides an overview of the major issues plus an extended bibliography of relevant scholarship.

Author : Bruce W. Holsinger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 0804740585

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Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture by Bruce W. Holsinger Pdf

Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages. Engaging a wide range of premodern texts and contexts, the author argues that medieval music was quintessentially a practice of the flesh. It will be of compelling interest to historians of literature, music, religion, and sexuality, as well as scholars of cultural, gender, and queer studies.

Author : Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521818702

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The Modern Invention of Medieval Music by Daniel Leech-Wilkinson Pdf

A challenging book which questions how much is really known about the way medieval music sounded.

Author : Tess Knighton,David Fallows
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520210816

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Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music by Tess Knighton,David Fallows Pdf

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 : Carl Parrish
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Music
ISBN : 0918728088

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The Notation of Medieval Music by Carl Parrish Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501727573

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Sung Birds by Elizabeth Eva Leach Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107010390

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Discovering Medieval Song by Mark Everist Pdf

Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.

Author : Jurij Snoj
Publisher : Založba ZRC
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789616182263

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Medieval Music Codices by Jurij Snoj Pdf

Knjiga je predstavitev izbora tistih srednjeveških rokopisov v slovenskih knjižnicah ali arhivih, ki imajo glasbeni zapis. To so bodisi glasbeni kodeksi, ki so notirani od začetka do konca, fragmentarno ohranjeni glasbeni rokopisi ali zapisi glasbe v rokopisih, ki prvenstveno niso bili glasbene knjige. Glasba izbranih primerov pripada repertoarju srednjeveškega korala. Tako jo je treba pojmovati kot sestavni del nadnarodne srednjeveške latinske kulture, razširjene po vsej zahodni Evropi. Predstavljeni rokopisi so iz časovnega razdobja od 11. do 16. stoletja; izkazujejo zelo različne tipe srednjeveških glasbenih, nevmatskih pisav, ki niso zanimive le z glasbenega, ampak tudi likovnega stališča in pričajo o domala nepoznanem segmentu srednjeveške kulture in glasbene pismenosti na Slovenskem. Knjiga je opremljena s celostranskimi barvnimi reprodukcijami izvirnih rokopisov.