Tonus Peregrinus The History Of A Psalm Tone And Its Use In Polyphonic Music

Author : Mattias Lundberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317009856

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Tonus Peregrinus: The History of a Psalm-tone and its use in Polyphonic Music by Mattias Lundberg Pdf

Mattias Lundberg investigates the historical role of a deviant psalm-tone, the tonus peregrinus, focusing on its applications in polyphonic music within all major branches of Western liturgy. Throughout the remarkably persistent tradition of applying this melody to polyphony, from the ninth century right up to the twenty-first, coeval music theory is able to shed light on the problems it has posed to modal and tonal practice at various historical stages. The musical settings studied hold up a mirror to the general development of psalmody, concerning practices of organum, diverse regional forms of fauxbourdon, cantus firmus composition, free imitation, parody, fugue, quodlibet, monody, and many other compositional techniques where the unique features of the psalm-tone have necessitated modification of existing practices. The conclusions drawn reveal a musico-liturgical tradition that was not in real danger of extinction until the general decline of Western liturgy that followed in the eighteenth century, at which point the historiography of the tonus peregrinus became a factor stimulating scholarly and musical interest in its alleged pre-Christian origins. Lundberg demonstrates that the succession of works based on the tonus peregrinus often preserved a distinctly conservative musical and theological conception even during periods of drastic liturgical reform.

Author : Graham O'Reilly
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783274871

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'Allegri's Miserere' in the Sistine Chapel by Graham O'Reilly Pdf

The Miserere by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) is one of the most popular, oft performed and recorded choral pieces of late Renaissance/early Baroque music. Yet the piece known today bears little resemblanceto Allegri's original or to the piece as it was performed before 1870.

Author : Peter Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108830638

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Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII by Peter Bennett Pdf

A study of the strategies by which sacred music and liturgy was used to legitimate Louis XIII's power.

Author : Markus Rathey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300219517

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Bach's Major Vocal Works by Markus Rathey Pdf

Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach’s major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar. Written by a renowned Bach scholar, this concise and accessible book provides an introduction to the music and cultural contexts of the composer’s most beloved masterpieces, including the Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, and St. John Passion. In addition to providing historical information, each chapter highlights significant aspects—such as the theology of love—of a particular piece. This penetrating volume is the first to treat the vocal works as a whole, showing how the compositions were embedded in their original performative context within the liturgy as well as discussing Bach’s musical style, from the detailed level of individual movements to the overarching aspects of each work. Published in the approach to Easter when many of these vocal works are performed, this outstanding volume will appeal to casual concertgoers and scholars alike.

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 3856 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Frans Wiering
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135683412

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The Language of the Modes by Frans Wiering Pdf

The Language of the Modes provides a study of modes in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different aspects of modality. The volume codifies all known theoretical references to mode, all modally ordered musical sources, and all modally cyclic compositions. For many music students and listeners, the "language of the modes" is a deep mystery, accustomed as we are to centuries of modern harmony. Wiering demystifies the modal world, showing how composers and performers were able to use this structure to create compelling and beautiful works. This book will be an invaluable source to scholars of early music and music theory. in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different aspects of modality. It codifies all known theoretical references to mode, all modally ordered musical sources, and all modally cyclic compositions. This book will be an invaluable source to scholars of early music.

Author : David Crook
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400863785

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Orlando di Lasso's Imitation Magnificats for Counter-Reformation Munich by David Crook Pdf

After the Mass Ordinary, the Magnificat was the liturgical text most frequently set by Renaissance composers, and Orlando di Lasso's 101 polyphonic settings form the largest and most varied repertory of Magnificats in the history of European music. In the first detailed investigation of this repertory, David Crook focuses on the forty parody or imitation Magnificats, which Lasso based on motets, madrigals, and chansons written by such composers as Josquin and Rore. By examining these Magnificats in their social, historical, and liturgical contexts and in terms of composition theory, Crook opens a new window on the breadth and subtlety of an important composer often harshly judged on his use of preexistent music. Crook places Lasso amidst the Counter-Reformation reforms at the Bavarian court where he composed the Magnificats, and where there emerged a fanatical Marian cult that favored this genre. In a section on compositional procedure, Crook explains that Lasso abandoned the traditional eight psalm-tone melodies in his imitation Magnificats, considers the new ways he found to represent the tones, and describes how Lasso's experimentation reflected the complex relationship between mode and tone in Renaissance theory and practice. Arguing that Lasso's varied uses of preexistent music defy current definitions of parody technique, Crook, in his final chapter, reveals the imitation Magnificats as vastly more imaginative and innovative than previous characterizations suggest. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X004956471

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Pohlman to Recital by Stanley Sadie Pdf

Author : Arthur Henry Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Gregorian chants
ISBN : NYPL:33433082274808

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Organ Harmonies for the Gregorian Psalm Tones by Arthur Henry Brown Pdf

Author : John Rutter,Clifford Bartlett
Publisher : Oxford Choral Classics Collections
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996-11-21
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008666872

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European Sacred Music by John Rutter,Clifford Bartlett Pdf

The Oxford Choral Classics gathers together over three hundred of the world's choral masterpieces into a unique series of seven volumes that span the whole of Western choral literature. Each volume contains all of the established classics of its genre under a single cover, in authoritative new editions and at a budget price. European Sacred Music is the second volume in the series and a fabulous value for money. From the Allegri Misereri to the Victora O vos omnes, John Rutter and co-editor Clifford Bartlett have researched the best available sources and provided excellent new English singing translations and sensible, practical keyboard reductions.

Author : Bettina Varwig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139502016

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Histories of Heinrich Schütz by Bettina Varwig Pdf

Bettina Varwig places the music of the celebrated Dresden composer Heinrich Schütz in a richly detailed tapestry of cultural, political, religious and intellectual contexts. Four key events in Schütz's career - the 1617 Reformation centenary, the performance of his Dafne in 1627, the 1636 funeral composition Musikalische Exequien and the publication of his motet collection Geistliche Chormusik (1648) - are used to explore his music's resonances with broader historical themes, including the effects of the Thirty Years' War, contemporary meanings of classical mythology, Lutheran attitudes to death and the afterlife as well as shifting conceptions of time and history in light of early modern scientific advances. These original seventeenth-century circumstances are treated in counterpoint with Schütz's fascinating later reinvention in nineteenth- and twentieth-century German musical culture, providing a new kind of musicological writing that interweaves layers of historical inquiry from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Author : David Hiley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198165722

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Western Plainchant by David Hiley Pdf

Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.

Author : Dominicus Johner
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016314817

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A New School of Gregorian Chant by Dominicus Johner Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Peter Pesic
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Cyrus Adler,Isidore Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:49015002282318

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The Jewish Encyclopedia by Cyrus Adler,Isidore Singer Pdf