Music Of The Middle Ages

Author : David Fenwick Wilson
Publisher : New York : Schirmer Books ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015018867757

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Music of the Middle Ages by David Fenwick Wilson Pdf

Music of the Middle Ages provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of musical style and compositional technique from early plainchant to the flourishing of fourteenth-century polyphony.--From publisher description.

Author : Suzanne Lord
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313083686

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Music in the Middle Ages by Suzanne Lord Pdf

Music both influences and reflects the times in which it was created. In the Middle Ages, the previous Dark Ages, the Crusades, and the feudal system all impacted the types and forms of music in the period. Charlemagne standardized the church mass and promoted the Gregorian chant, to the point of threatening excommunication if any other were performed. Musical notation — the staff line — was developed during the period. The troubadours of France, Meistersingers of Germany,the Cantus Firmus of Italy, and the instruments that played the music are all included in this thorough guide to music of the middle ages. Topics include: the British Isles, Dance Music, Eastern Europe, France, Germanic Lands, Harps, Italy, the Low Countries, Spain, and more.

Author : John Haines
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135927691

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Music in Films on the Middle Ages by John Haines Pdf

This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the present day. Haines focuses on the tension in these films between the surviving evidence for medieval music and the idiomatic tradition of cinematic music. The latter is taken broadly as any musical sound occurring in a film, from the clang of a bell off-screen to a minstrel singing his song. Medieval film music must be considered in the broader historical context of pre-cinematic medievalisms and of medievalist cinema’s main development in the course of the twentieth century as an American appropriation of European culture. The book treats six pervasive moments that define the genre of medieval film: the church-tower bell, the trumpet fanfare or horn call, the music of banquets and courts, the singing minstrel, performances of Gregorian chant, and the music that accompanies horse-riding knights, with each chapter visiting representative films as case studies. These six signal musical moments, that create a fundamental visual-aural core central to making a film feel medieval to modern audiences, originate in medievalist works predating cinema by some three centuries.

Author : Giulio Cattin,F. Alberto Gallo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521284899

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Music of the Middle Ages: Volume 1 by Giulio Cattin,F. Alberto Gallo Pdf

A unique history of the vast repertory of monophonic music of the Middle Ages.

Author : Tess Knighton,David Skinner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Conductus
ISBN : 9781783275564

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Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages by Tess Knighton,David Skinner Pdf

Essays on important topics in early music.

Author : John Stevens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521245079

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Words and Music in the Middle Ages by John Stevens Pdf

This book examines the relation of words and music in England and France during the three centuries following the Norman Conquest. The basic material of the study includes the chansons of the troubadours and trouvères and the varied Latin songs of the period. In addition to these 'lyric' forms, the author discusses the relations of music and poetry in dance-song, in narrative and in the ecclesiastical drama. Professor Stevens examines the ready-made, often unconscious, and misleading assumptions we bring to the study and performance of early music. In particular he affirms the importance of Number, in more than one sense, as a clue to the 'aesthetic' of the greater part of repertoire, to the relation of words and melody. and to the baffling problem of their rhythmic interpretation. This is the first wide-ranging study of words and music in this period in any language. It will be essential reading for scholars of the music and the literature of medieval Europe and will provide a basic and comprehensive introduction to the repertoire for students.

Author : TimothyJ. McGee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351562720

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Instruments and their Music in the Middle Ages by TimothyJ. McGee Pdf

This is a collection of twenty-nine of the most influential articles and papers about medieval musical instruments and their repertory. The authors discuss the construction of the instruments, their playing technique, the occasions for which they performed and their repertory. Taken as a whole, they paint a very broad, as well as detailed, picture of instrumental performance during the medieval period.

Author : Harold Gleason,Warren Becker
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Music
ISBN : 0882843796

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Music in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Harold Gleason,Warren Becker Pdf

This is a complete revision of the second edition, designed as a guide and resource in the study of music from the earliest times through the Renaissance period. The authors have completely revised and updated the bibliographies; in general they are limited to English language sources. In order to facilitate study of this period and to use materials efficiently, references to facsimiles, monumental editions, complete composers' works and specialized anthologies are given. The authors present this systematic organization in this volume in the hope that students, teachers, and performers may find in it a ready tool for developing a comprehensive understanding of the music of this period.

Author : Gustave Reese
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393977137

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Music in the Middle Ages by Gustave Reese Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Carl Parrish
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486171456

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A Treasury of Early Music by Carl Parrish Pdf

Features 50 compositions from early Middle Ages to mid-18th century, including a Gregorian hymn, English lute piece, operatic arias, instrumental and vocal motets; works by Vivaldi, Telemann, Scarlatti, and others. Features commentary.

Author : Jeremy Yudkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Alma Santosuosso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557382

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Music in Medieval Europe by Alma Santosuosso Pdf

This book presents the most recent findings of twenty of the foremost European and North American researchers into the music of the Middle Ages. The chronological scope of their topics is wide, from the ninth to the fifteenth century. Wide too is the range of the subject matter: included are essays on ecclesiastical chant, early and late (and on the earliest and latest of its supernumerary tropes, monophonic and polyphonic); on the innovative and seminal polyphony of Notre-Dame de Paris, and the Latin poetry associated with the great cathedral; on the liturgy of Paris, Rome and Milan; on musical theory; on the emotional reception of music near the end of the medieval period and the emergence of modern sensibilities; even on methods of encoding the melodies that survive from the Middle Ages, encoding that makes it practical to apply computer-assisted analysis to their vast number. The findings presented in this book will be of interest to those engaged by music and the liturgy, active researchers and students. All the papers are carefully and extensively documented by references to medieval sources.

Author : Susan Forscher Weiss,Russell E. Murray, Jr.,Cynthia J. Cyrus
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253004550

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Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Susan Forscher Weiss,Russell E. Murray, Jr.,Cynthia J. Cyrus Pdf

What were the methods and educational philosophies of music teachers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance? What did students study? What were the motivations of teacher and student? Contributors to this volume address these topics and other -- including gender, social status, and the role of the Church -- to better understand the identities of music teachers and students from 650 to 1650 in Western Europe. This volume provides an expansive view of the beginnings of music pedagogy, and shows how the act of learning was embedded in the broader context of the early Western art music tradition.

Author : Benjamin Brand,David J. Rothenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107158375

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Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond by Benjamin Brand,David J. Rothenberg Pdf

The essays in this volume offer diverse, innovative approaches to medieval music and culture.