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Author : Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Middle Ages
ISBN : OCLC:915838290
Author : Rebecca Herissone
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198167008
Thus, over the course of the seventeenth century, there occurred a complete transformation in almost every aspect of theory: by the 1720s, many of the principles being described bore close relation to those still used today. Nowhere was this metamorphosis clearer than in England where, because of a traditional emphasis on practicality, there was much more willingness to accept and encourage new theoretical ideas than on the continent.
Author : James Grier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521898164
A detailed critical and historical investigation of the development of musical notation as a powerful system of symbolic communication.
Author : Michael E. Hobart
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674985162
In their search for truth, contemporary religious believers and modern scientific investigators hold many values in common. But in their approaches, they express two fundamentally different conceptions of how to understand and represent the world. Michael E. Hobart looks for the origin of this difference in the work of Renaissance thinkers who invented a revolutionary mathematical system—relational numeracy. By creating meaning through numbers and abstract symbols rather than words, relational numeracy allowed inquisitive minds to vault beyond the constraints of language and explore the natural world with a fresh interpretive vision. The Great Rift is the first book to examine the religion-science divide through the history of information technology. Hobart follows numeracy as it emerged from the practical counting systems of merchants, the abstract notations of musicians, the linear perspective of artists, and the calendars and clocks of astronomers. As the technology of the alphabet and of mere counting gave way to abstract symbols, the earlier “thing-mathematics” metamorphosed into the relational mathematics of modern scientific investigation. Using these new information symbols, Galileo and his contemporaries mathematized motion and matter, separating the demonstrations of science from the linguistic logic of religious narration. Hobart locates the great rift between science and religion not in ideological disagreement but in advances in mathematics and symbolic representation that opened new windows onto nature. In so doing, he connects the cognitive breakthroughs of the past with intellectual debates ongoing in the twenty-first century.
Author : Jeffrey Kurtzman
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191590719
This is a thorough-going study of Monteverdi's Vespers, the single most significant and most widely known musical print from before the time of J.S. Bach. The author examines Monteverdi's Vespers from multiple perspectives, combining his own research with all that is known and thought of the Vespers by other scholars. The historical origin as well as the musical and liturgical context of the Vespers are surveyed; similarly the controversial historiography of the Vespers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is scrutinized and evaluated. A series of analytical chapters attempt to clarify Monteverdi's compositional process and the relationship between music and text in the light of recent research on modal and tonal aspects of early seventeenth century music. The final section is devoted to thirteen chapters investigating performance practice issues of the early seventeenth century and their application to the Vespers, including general and specific recommendations for performance where appropriate. The book concludes with a series of informational appendices, including the psalm cursus for Vespers of all major feasts in the liturgical calendar, texts, and structural outlines for the Vespers compositions based on a cantus firmus, an analytical discography, and bibliographies of seventeenth-century musical and theoretical sources.
Author : CristleCollins Judd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351556842
This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The collection spans the major themes addressed by Renaissance writers on music and highlights the differing approaches to this body of work by modern scholars, including: historical and theoretical perspectives; consideration of the broader cultural context for writing about music in the Renaissance; and the dissemination of such work. Selected from a variety of sources ranging from journals, monographs and specialist edited volumes, to critical editions, translations and facsimiles, these previously published articles reflect a broad chronological and geographical span, and consider Renaissance sources that range from the overtly pedagogical to the highly speculative. Taken together, this collection enables consideration of key essays side by side aided by the editor‘s introductory essay which highlights ongoing debates and offers a general framework for interpreting past and future directions in the study of historical music theory from the Renaissance.
Author : Emily Zazulia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Musical notation
ISBN : 9780197551912
"The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. Composers sometimes asked singers to read the music in unusual ways-backwards, upside-down, or at a reduced speed-to produce sounds whose relationship to the written notes is anything but obvious. This book explores innovations in late-medieval music writing as well as how modern scholarship on notation has informed-sometimes erroneously-ideas about the premodern era. By viewing notation as a complex technology that did more than record sound, the book revolutionizes the way we think about music's literate traditions"--
Author : Jared C. Hartt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781783273072
First full comprehensive guide to one of the most important genres of music in the Middle Ages.
Author : Paula Marie Higgins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0198164068
This volume brings together twenty original essays by distinguished scholars on the life, works, and cultural context of Antoine Busnoys (c.1430-1492), musician to Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and one of the most celebrated composers of the fifteenth century. The chapters offer a wealth of new information about musical culture in the late middle ages.
Author : Stefanie Brinkmann,Giovanni Ciotti,Stefano Valente,Eva Maria Wilden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110741179
Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. As learning and teaching tools, manuscripts become primary witnesses for reconstructing and studying didactic and research activities and methodologies from elementary levels to the most advanced. The present volume investigates the relation between manuscripts and educational practices focusing on four particular research topics: educational settings: teachers, students and their manuscripts; organising knowledge: syllabi; exegetical practices: annotations; modifying tradition: adaptations. The volume offers a number of case studies stretching across geophysical boundaries from Western Europe to South-East Asia, with a time span ranging from the second millennium BCE to the twentieth century CE.
Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521558433
Devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century
Author : James Grier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521558638
The book follows the activities inherent in music editing, including the tasks of the editor, the nature of musical sources, and transcription. Grier also discusses the difficult decisions faced by the editor such as sources not associated with the composer and necessary editorial judgement.
Author : Alexander Silbiger
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822307111
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) occupies a special place in the history of music as the first significant European composer who concentrated his major creative efforts into the realm of instrumental music. In this collection of papers based on the Quadricentennial Frescobaldi Studies Conference, sixteen American and European specialists examine important aspects of the life and works of this composer and of his role in the creation of a new musical language of the Baroque.
Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994-02-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521451809
Includes contributions on European knowledge of Arabic texts referring to music and the motets of Philippe de Vitry and the fourteenth-century renaissance
Author : Roger Mathew Grant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199367290
Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era chronicles the shifting relationships between ideas about time in music and science from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. Centered on theories of musical meter, the book investigates the interdependence between theories of meter and conceptualizations of time from the age of Zarlino to the invention of the metronome. These formulations have evolved throughout the history of Western music, reflecting fundamental reevaluations not only of music but also of time itself. Drawing on paradigms from the history of science and technology and the history of philosophy, author Roger Mathew Grant illustrates ways in which theories of meter and time, informed by one another, have manifested themselves in the field of music. During the long eighteenth century, treatises on subjects such as aesthetics, music theory, mathematics, and natural philosophy began to reflect an understanding of time as an absolute quantity, independent of events. This gradual but conclusive change had a profound impact on the network of ideas connecting time, meter, character, and tempo. Investigating the impacts of this change, Grant explores the timekeeping techniques - musical and otherwise - that implemented this conceptual shift, both technologically and materially. Bringing together diverse strands of thought in a broader intellectual history of temporality, Grant's study fills an unexpected yet conspicuous gap in the history of music theory, and is essential reading for music theorists and composers as well as historical musicologists and practitioners of historically informed performance.
