Counterpoint and Compositional Process in the Time of Dufay

Counterpoint and Compositional Process in the Time of Dufay

Author: Kevin N. Moll

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 1135617333

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During the 1950s and 1960s, Austro-German scholars made decisive advances in developing concepts to account for harmonic processes in late medieval music. Despite the considerable potential these ideas hold for analysis and criticism of early music, they have hitherto exerted little influence outside their countries of origin. In order to render this valuable literature more immediately accessible to English-speaking students and scholars, this book presents translations of twelve seminal articles that originally appeared during the years 1948-1967, along with a comprehensive introductory chapter detailing the evolution of competing theories and terminology.


Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta

Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta

Author: Margaret Bent

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1136534911

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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.


Machaut's Music

Machaut's Music

Author: Elizabeth Eva Leach

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1843830167

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Guillaume de Machaut was the foremost poet-composer of his time. Studies look at all aspects of his prodigious output.


The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

Author: Thomas Christensen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-04-20

Total Pages: 1033

ISBN-13: 1316025489

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The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical subject, the volume has been organized within a flexible framework. Some chapters are defined chronologically within a restricted historical domain, whilst others are defined conceptually and span longer historical periods. Together the thirty-one chapters present a synthetic overview of the fascinating and complex subject that is historical music theory. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies of the most important primary and secondary literature, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.


The Motet in the Age of Du Fay

The Motet in the Age of Du Fay

Author: Julie E. Cumming

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-10-16

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780521543378

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A re-evaluation of the Latin-texted motet during the age of Du Fay.


The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint

The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint

Author: Douglass Green

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 1136935096

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Covering modal music from Gregorian chant through the seventeenth-century, The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint is a comprehensive textbook combining stylistic composition, theory and analysis, music history, and performance. By supplementing a modified species approach with a wealth of complete musical examples and historical information, this textbook thoroughly joins principle with practice, providing a truly immersive experience in the study of modal counterpoint and familiarizing students with modal repertoire.


Reader's Guide to Music

Reader's Guide to Music

Author: Murray Steib

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-02

Total Pages: 928

ISBN-13: 1135942625

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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).


The Motet in the Late Middle Ages

The Motet in the Late Middle Ages

Author: Margaret Bent

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-11-03

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 0190063807

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A unique capacity of measured polyphony is to give precisely fixed places not only to musical notes, but also to individual words in relation to them and each other. The Motet in the Late Middle Ages offers innovative approaches to the equal partnership of music and texts in motets of the fourteenth century and beyond, showcasing the imaginative opportunities afforded by this literal kind of intertextuality, and yielding a very different narrative from the common complaint that different simultaneous texts make motets incomprehensible. As leading musicologist Margaret Bent asserts, they simply require a different approach to preparation and listening. In this book, Bent examines the words and music of motets from many different angles: foundational verbal quotations and pre-existent chant excerpts and their contexts, citations both of words and music from other compositions, function, dating, structure, theory, and number symbolism. Individual studies of these original creations tease out a range of strategies, ingenuity, playfulness, striking juxtapositions, and even subversion. Half of the thirty-two chapters consist of new material; the other half are substantially revised and updated versions of previously published articles and chapters, organized into seven Parts. With new analyses of text and music together, new datings, new attributions, and new hypotheses about origins and interrelationships, Bent uncovers little-explored dimensions, provides a window into the craft and thought processes of medieval composers, and opens up many directions for future work.


Composing Community in Late Medieval Music

Composing Community in Late Medieval Music

Author: Jane D. Hatter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-05-02

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1108474918

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An exploration of what self-referential compositions reveal about late medieval musical networks, linking choirboys to canons and performers to theorists.