Musica Ficta

Author : Don Michael Randel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 0674011635

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The Harvard Dictionary of Music by Don Michael Randel Pdf

This classic reference work, the best one-volume music dictionary available, has been brought completely up to date in this new edition. Combining authoritative scholarship and lucid, lively prose, the Fourth Edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music is the essential guide for musicians, students, and everyone who appreciates music. The Harvard Dictionary of Music has long been admired for its wide range as well as its reliability. This treasure trove includes entries on all the styles and forms in Western music; comprehensive articles on the music of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Near East; descriptions of instruments enriched by historical background; and articles that reflect today’s beat, including popular music, jazz, and rock. Throughout this Fourth Edition, existing articles have been fine-tuned and new entries added so that the dictionary fully reflects current music scholarship and recent developments in musical culture. Encyclopedia-length articles by notable experts alternate with short entries for quick reference, including definitions and identifications of works and instruments. More than 220 drawings and 250 musical examples enhance the text. This is an invaluable book that no music lover can afford to be without.

Author : Margaret Bent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136534911

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Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta by Margaret Bent Pdf

Musica ficta is the practice of sharpening or flattening certain notes to avoid awkward intervals in medieval and Renaissance music. This collection gathers Margaret Bent's influential writings on this controversial subject from the past 30 years, along with an extensive author's introduction discussing the current state of scholarship and responding to critics. Also includes 25 musical examples.

Author : Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 0804723850

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Musica Ficta by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Pdf

This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). It is difficult today to realize how profoundly Wagner affected the cultural and ideological sensibilities of the nineteenth century. Wagnerism rapidly spread throughout Europe, partly because of Wagner's propagandizing talent and the zeal of his adherents. But the main reason for his ascendance was the sudden appearance of what the century had desperately tried to produce since the beginnings of Romanticism - a work of art on the scale of great Greek and Christian art. Finally, here it was, the secret of what Hegel called the "religion of art" rediscovered. The first two scenes of the book, contemporary with the European triumph of Wagnerism, inscribe themselves in a historical sequence that is punctuated by the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, in which the universal unbridling of nations and classes is prefigured. The second two register certain effects of Wagnerism that are not just ideological but make themselves felt in a new political configuration that solidifies a confusion between the "national" and the "social." Art and politics are both at play here, but as neither a politics of art nor, even less, an art of politics. Instead, what is at stake, more gravely, is the aestheticization, the figuration, of the political. The four scenes frame and clarify the "true scene" that sanctioned Nietzsche's rupture with Wagner, the major philosophical event that Heidegger, in1938, said it was imperative to understand as a turning point in Western history.

Author : Tess Knighton,David Fallows
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Mara Parker
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780895798855

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An Index to Music in Selected Historical Anthologies of Western Art Music, Part 2 by Mara Parker Pdf

An Index to Music in Selected Historical Anthologies of Western Art Music is the essential reference for music history and music theory instructors for finding specific listings and details for all the pieces included in more than 140 anthologies published between 1931 and 2016. Containing over 5,000 individual listings, this concise book is an indispensable tool for teaching music history and theory. Since many anthologies exist in multiple editions, this Index provides instructors, students, and researches with the means to locate specific compositions in both print and online anthologies. This book includes listings by composer and title, as well as indexes of authors, titles, and first lines of text for music from antiquity through the early twenty-first century.

Author : Karol Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 052154338X

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Musica Ficta by Karol Berger Pdf

Clarifies the conventions governing the practice of implied accidentals in vocal polyphony from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.

Author : Willi Apel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Music
ISBN : 0674375017

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Harvard Dictionary of Music by Willi Apel Pdf

Contains nearly 1000 pages of precise and accessible information on all musical subjects.

Author : Prosdocimus (de Beldemandis)
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0803236697

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Contrapunctus by Prosdocimus (de Beldemandis) Pdf

In the Contrapunctus (1412) Prosdocimo surveys the practice of counterpoint and musica ficta, codifying each in six rules. Unlike most of his contemporaries, who were satisfied merely to state their rules, Prosdocimo justified his, making the treatise a primer of the musical aesthetics of his time.

Author : Carl Parrish
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Music
ISBN : 0918728088

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The Notation of Medieval Music by Carl Parrish Pdf

Author : Roland Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136767708

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Performance Practice by Roland Jackson Pdf

Performance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works) and, later, by revivalists. This first of its kind Dictionary offers entries on composers, musiciansperformers, technical terms, performance centers, musical instruments, and genres, all aimed at elucidating issues in performance practice. This A-Z guide will help students, scholars, and listeners understand how musical works were originally performed and subsequently changed over the centuries. Compiled by a leading scholar in the field, this work will serve as both a point-of-entry for beginners as well as a roadmap for advanced scholarship in the field.

Author : Ross W. Duffin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
Page : 6042 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Music Sound by Nicolae Sfetcu Pdf

A guide for music: compositions, events, forms, genres, groups, history, industry, instruments, language, live music, musicians, songs, musicology, techniques, terminology , theory, music video. Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The traditional or classical European aspects of music often listed are those elements given primacy in European-influenced classical music: melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color/timbre, and form. A more comprehensive list is given by stating the aspects of sound: pitch, timbre, loudness, and duration. Common terms used to discuss particular pieces include melody, which is a succession of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord, which is a simultaneity of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord progression, which is a succession of chords (simultaneity succession); harmony, which is the relationship between two or more pitches; counterpoint, which is the simultaneity and organization of different melodies; and rhythm, which is the organization of the durational aspects of music.

Author : Charlotte Smith
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : 0874133270

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A Manual of Sixteenth-century Contrapuntal Style by Charlotte Smith Pdf

This volume explores the expressive power of sixteenth-century vocal polyphony, giving special emphasis to the development of aural familiarity with the style. Every element of sixteenth-century counterpoint is defined, described, and liberally illustrated, included for analysis and singing are complete compositions and movements by Palestrina, Lasso, Victoria, Byrd, Morales, and Joaquin.

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 3856 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199813698

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Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin Pdf

The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the c

Author : Sarah Hickmott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781474458344

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Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou by Sarah Hickmott Pdf

This text analyses the role of music in the work of Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe and Badiou, and the role of gender in the history of philosophy of music.