Medieval Music And The Art Of Memory

Author : Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520314276

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

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 : Mary Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107652255

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The Book of Memory by Mary Carruthers Pdf

Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained memory in composition, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books. The new edition will reignite the debate on memory in medieval studies and, like the first, will be essential reading for scholars of history, music, the arts and literature, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), in the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and in the disciplines of meditation (religion).

Author : Mary Carruthers,Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0812218817

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The Medieval Craft of Memory by Mary Carruthers,Jan M. Ziolkowski Pdf

"A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers."—Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles

Author : F A Yates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136353611

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Art Of Memory by F A Yates Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Robert Allan Maxwell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271036366

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Representing History, 900-1300 by Robert Allan Maxwell Pdf

"Brings together the disciplines of art, music, and history to explore the importance of the past to conceptions of the present in the central Middle Ages"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Paolo Rossi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226728261

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Logic and the Art of Memory by Paolo Rossi Pdf

The mnemonic arts and the idea of a universal language that would capture the essence of all things were originally associated with cryptology, mysticism, and other occult practices. And it is commonly held that these enigmatic efforts were abandoned with the development of formal logic in the seventeenth century and the beginning of the modern era. In his distinguished book, Logic and the Art of Memory Italian philosopher and historian Paolo Rossi argues that this view is belied by an examination of the history of the idea of a universal language. Based on comprehensive analyses of original texts, Rossi traces the development of this idea from late medieval thinkers such as Ramon Lull through Bruno, Bacon, Descartes, and finally Leibniz in the seventeenth century. The search for a symbolic mode of communication that would be intelligible to everyone was not a mere vestige of magical thinking and occult sciences, but a fundamental component of Renaissance and Enlightenment thought. Seen from this perspective, modern science and combinatorial logic represent not a break from the past but rather its full maturity. Available for the first time in English, this book (originally titled Clavis Universalis) remains one of the most important contributions to the history of ideas ever written. In addition to his eagerly anticipated translation, Steven Clucas offers a substantial introduction that places this book in the context of other recent works on this fascinating subject. A rich history and valuable sourcebook, Logic and the Art of Memory documents an essential chapter in the development of human reason.

Author : KatherineA. McIver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351575683

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Art and Music in the Early Modern Period by KatherineA. McIver Pdf

The relationship between music and painting in the Early Modern period is the focus of this collection of essays by an international group of distinguished art historians and musicologists. Each writer takes a multidisciplinary approach as he or she explores the interface between music performance and painting, or between music and art theory. The essays reflect a variety and range of approaches and offer methodologies which might usefully be employed in future research in this field. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Franca Trinchieri Camiz, an art historian who worked extensively on topics related to art and music, and who participated in some of the conference panels from which many of these essays originate. Three of Professor Camiz's own essays are included in the final section of this volume, together with a bibliography of her writings in this field. They are preceded by two thematic groups of essays covering aspects of musical imagery in portraits, issues in iconography and theory, and the relationship between music and art in religious imagery.

Author : Kevin Vost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1622829387

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Memorize the Faith! by Kevin Vost Pdf

Author : Lauren Curtis,Naomi Weiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108831666

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Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds by Lauren Curtis,Naomi Weiss Pdf

Combines multiple theoretical perspectives and diverse media to examine the relation between music and memory in ancient Greece and Rome.

Author : Petina Gappah
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374714888

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The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah Pdf

The story that you have asked me to tell you does not begin with the pitiful ugliness of Lloyd’s death. It begins on a long-ago day in August when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she remembers? Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between past and present, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award–winning writer Petina Gappah weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate, and the treachery of memory.

Author : Jane D. Hatter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Frances A Yates
Publisher : Random House
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781448104130

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The Art of Memory by Frances A Yates Pdf

This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate memory system which in turn was inherited by the Romans and passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, during the Renaissance. Frances Yates sheds light on Dante’s Divine Comedy, the form of the Shakespearian theatre and the history of ancient architecture; The Art of Memory is an invaluable contribution to aesthetics and psychology, and to the history of philosophy, of science and of literature.

Author : Dr Elma Brenner,Dr Mary Franklin-Brown,Dr Meredith Cohen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409463436

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Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture by Dr Elma Brenner,Dr Mary Franklin-Brown,Dr Meredith Cohen Pdf

In medieval society and culture, memory occupied a unique position. It was central to intellectual life and the medieval understanding of the human mind. Commemoration of the dead was also a fundamental Christian activity. Above all, the past - and the memory of it - occupied a central position in medieval thinking, from ideas concerning the family unit to those shaping political institutions. Focusing on France but incorporating studies from further afield, this collection of essays marks an important new contribution to the study of medieval memory and commemoration. Arranged thematically, each part highlights how memory cannot be studied in isolation, but instead intersects with many other areas of medieval scholarship, including art history, historiography, intellectual history, and the study of religious culture. Key themes in the study of memory are explored, such as collective memory, the links between memory and identity, the fallibility of memory, and the linking of memory to the future, as an anticipation of what is to come.

Author : Peter Pesic
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780262543897

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Polyphonic Minds by Peter Pesic Pdf

An exploration of polyphony and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains. Polyphony—the interweaving of simultaneous sounds—is a crucial aspect of music that has deep implications for how we understand the mind. In Polyphonic Minds, Peter Pesic examines the history and significance of “polyphonicity”—of “many-voicedness”—in human experience. Pesic presents the emergence of Western polyphony, its flowering, its horizons, and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains. When we listen to polyphonic music, how is it that we can hear several different things at once? How does a single mind experience those things as a unity (a motet, a fugue) rather than an incoherent jumble? Pesic argues that polyphony raises fundamental issues for philosophy, theology, literature, psychology, and neuroscience—all searching for the apparent unity of consciousness in the midst of multiple simultaneous experiences. After tracing the development of polyphony in Western music from ninth-century church music through the experimental compositions of Glenn Gould and John Cage, Pesic considers the analogous activity within the brain, the polyphonic “music of the hemispheres” that shapes brain states from sleep to awakening. He discusses how neuroscientists draw on concepts from polyphony to describe the “neural orchestra” of the brain. Pesic’s story begins with ancient conceptions of God’s mind and ends with the polyphonic personhood of the human brain and body. An enhanced e-book edition allows the sound examples to be played by a touch.

Author : Angela Mariani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190631192

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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.