Tallis And Byrd S Cantiones Sacrae 1575

Author : Jeremy L. Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781837650453

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Tallis and Byrd's Cantiones Sacrae (1575) by Jeremy L. Smith Pdf

What did Tallis and Byrd mean to convey by their use of the word "argument" in their title, Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur? Thomas Tallis's and William Byrd's Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur (songs, which by their argument are called sacred) of 1575 is one of the first sets of sacred music printed in England. It is widely recognized as a landmark achievement in English music history. Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I to mark the seventeenth year of her reign, each composer contributed seventeen motets to the collection, which proved to be greatly influential among the era's composers. But what did Tallis and Byrd mean to convey by their use of the word "argument" in their title? The current view is that they treated their project as an opportunity to pull together a grand compendium of musical accomplishment that drew on the past, but looked to the future, and that the texts functioned as mere vehicles for musical display. In contrast, this book claims that these very texts were chosen by the composers to develop a theme, or argument, on the topic of sacred judgment. In offering a new interpretation of the song collection Smith employs a carefully constructed musical, literary, theological, and political argumentation. The book will encourage new ways of approaching and interpreting Tudor and Elizabethan sacred music.

Author : John Harley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317010364

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Thomas Tallis by John Harley Pdf

John Harley’s Thomas Tallis is the first full-length book to deal comprehensively with the composer’s life and works. Tallis entered the Chapel Royal in the middle of a long life, and remained there for over 40 years. During a colourful period of English history he famously served King Henry VIII and the three of Henry’s children who followed him to the throne. His importance for English music during the second half of the sixteenth century is equalled only by that of his pupil, colleague and friend William Byrd. In a series of chronological chapters, Harley describes Tallis’s career before and after he entered the Chapel. The fully considered biography is placed in the context of larger political and cultural changes of the period. Each monarch’s reign is treated with an examination of the ways in which Tallis met its particular musical needs. Consideration is given to all of Tallis’s surviving compositions, including those probably intended for patrons and amateurs beyond the court, and attention is paid to the context within which they were written. Tallis emerges as a composer whose music displays his special ability in setting words and creating ingenious musical patterns. A table places most of Tallis’s compositions in a broad chronological order.

Author : Rebecca Herissone,Alan Howard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781843837404

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Concepts of Creativity in Seventeenth-century England by Rebecca Herissone,Alan Howard Pdf

The first genuinely interdisciplinary study of creativity in early modern England

Author : James Haar
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843838944

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European Music, 1520-1640 by James Haar Pdf

An authoritative survey of music and its context in the Renaissance.

Author : Murray Steib
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2624 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135942694

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Reader's Guide to Music by Murray Steib Pdf

The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).

Author : Paul Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190056216

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Fugue in the Sixteenth Century by Paul Walker Pdf

Examining the roots of the classical fugue and the early history of non-canonic fugal writing, Paul Walker's Fugue in the Sixteenth Century explores the three principal fugal genres of the period: motet, ricercar, and canonza. The volume treats each genre in turn, tracing the fugue's development throughout the century and highlighting important moments and trends along the way. Taking a two-tiered approach, Walker, on one level, examines fugue from the perspective of contemporary musicians, and on another level, takes into account fugue's later history and the elements that came to play a significant role in its formation. Walker is the first scholar to successfully tie together the various strands of the "pre-Bach fugue" thanks to the growing availability of editions of the repertories involved. He also takes account of recent work elucidating the change in compositional approach around 1500 from a basis in cantus firmus and canon to one favoring non-canonical, fugal imitation. Featuring well-chosen musical examples to illustrate the compositional developments of the sixteenth century, Fugue in the Sixteenth Century is a definitive study for both specialist musicologists and organists and harpsichordists alike.

Author : John Harley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351536943

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William Byrd by John Harley Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study of William Byrds life (1540-1623) and works to appear for sixty years, and fully takes into consideration recent scholarship. The biographical section includes many newly discovered facts about Byrd and his family, while in the chapters dealing with his music an attempt is made for the first time to outline the chronology of all his compositions. The book begins with a detailed account of Byrd's life, based on a completely fresh examination of original documents, which are quoted extensively. Several previously known documents have now been identified as being in Byrds hand, and some fresh holographs have been discovered. A number of questions such as his parentage and date of birth have been conclusively settled. The book continues with a survey of Byrds music which pays particular attention to its chronological development, and links it where possible to the events and background of his life. A series of appendices includes additional texts of important documents, and a summary catalogue of works. A bibliography and index complete the book. Besides musical illustrations there is a series of plates illustrating documents and places associated with Byrd.

Author : Assistant Professor of Musicology Jeremy L Smith,Jeremy L. Smith
Publisher : Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195139051

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Thomas East and Music Publishing in Renaissance England by Assistant Professor of Musicology Jeremy L Smith,Jeremy L. Smith Pdf

"In Thomas East and Music Publishing in Renaissance England, Jeremy Smith not only tells the story of this influential player in early English music publishing, but also offers a vivid portrait of a bustling and competitive industry, in which composers, patrons, publishers, and tradesmen sparred for creative control and financial success. From this lively market, beset as it was by monopolies and lawsuits, a prototype of today's copyright system emerged."--Jacket.

Author : Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl,Grantley McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000387087

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Early Printed Music and Material Culture in Central and Western Europe by Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl,Grantley McDonald Pdf

This book presents a varied and nuanced analysis of the dynamics of the printing, publication, and trade of music in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries across Western and Northern Europe. Chapters consider dimensions of music printing in Britain, the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Italy, showing how this area of inquiry can engage a wide range of cultural, historical and theoretical issues. From the economic consequences of the international book trade to the history of women music printers, the contributors explore the nuances of the interrelation between the materiality of print music and cultural, aesthetic, religious, legal, gender and economic history. Engaging with the theoretical turns in the humanities towards material culture, mobility studies and digital research, this book offers a wealth of new insights that will be relevant to researchers of early modern music and early print culture alike.

Author : Patrick Paul Macey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198166699

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Bonfire Songs by Patrick Paul Macey Pdf

Fra Girolamo Savonarola had a profound effect on the political and moral life of Florence in the 1490s, and his legacy lived on during the century after his execution in 1498, not just in Florence but in Ferrara and beyond the Alps, as far as Paris, Munich, and London. This study reconstructscontexts and musical settings for the popular tradition of sacred laude that were sung during the Savonarolan carnivals in 1496, 1497, and 1498. It further examines a broad network of patronage for the courtly tradition of Latin motets that provided elaborate musical settings for Savonarola'smeditations on Psalms 30 and 50. The friar's success in Florence can be partially attributed to his adoption of sacred laude (and the tunes of bawdy carnival songs) that had been promoted by Lorenzo de' Medici. The texts of the old carnival songs were suppressed, but the music was adapted to laudewith texts that proclaim the friar's prophecy of castigation and renewal. The citizens could thus internalize Savonarola's message by singing it. Savonarola himself wrote several lauda texts, and their musical settings are reconstructed here, as well as those for an underground tradition of laudewritten to venerate him after his execution. Part II turns to the courtly tradition and the Latin motet. Several Catholic patrons, scattered from Ferrara to France to England, were drawn to the friar's prison meditation on Psalms 30 and 50, and they commissioned elaborate musical settings of the opening words of both. A dozen motets on thefriar's psalm meditations can be traced from composes such as Willaert, Rore, Le Jeune, Lassus, and Byrd. Savonarola's highly personal texts inspired some of the most moving musical setings of the sixteenth century, in spite of the Church's unfavourable attitude toward the friar's disruptiveexample, which had set a precedent for Protestant reformers such as Martin Luther.

Author : Charles Edward McGuire,Steven E. Plank
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810879515

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Historical Dictionary of English Music by Charles Edward McGuire,Steven E. Plank Pdf

The Historical Dictionary of English Music seeks to identify and briefly annotate a wide range of subjects relating to English musical culture, largely from the early 15th century through 1958, dates that reflect the coalescence of an identifiable English style in the early Renaissance and the death of the iconic Ralph Vaughan Williams in the mid-20th century. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about English music.

Author : Harold Gleason,Warren Becker
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Oscar Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2506 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSD:31822019583707

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The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by Oscar Thompson Pdf

Author : Jeremy L. Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783270828

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Verse and Voice in Byrd's Song Collections of 1588 and 1589 by Jeremy L. Smith Pdf

First full monograph to focus entirely on the English-language songs set to music by Byrd.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780744033472

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The Complete Classical Music Guide by DK Pdf

Packed with photographs, composer biographies, analyses of major works, and essential information on every musical genre, style, form, instrument, and ensemble, DK's Complete Classical Music Guide is a portable encyclopedic guide to more than one thousand years of Western classical music. From Bach to Berlioz, Glinka to Gershwin, Stravinsky to Shostakovich, and everyone in between, the Complete Classical Music Guide contains more than three hundred composer profiles, and offers a clear definition of the particular styles and characteristics of seven key eras: Early Music (1000-1600); The Baroque Era (1600-1750); The Classical Era (1750-1820); The Romantic Era (1810-1920); Romantic Opera (1810-1920); National Schools (1830-1950); and Modern Music (1900-). The Complete Classical Music Guide also includes a timeline that charts the evolution of musical styles and forms, instruments, and provides explanations of the building blocks of music — melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, form, tempo, and dynamics. Previously published as Eyewitness Companion: Classical Music, this book has been reformatted and designed and now comes packaged in an exclusive presentation slipcase.