Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music
Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music

Author: Tess Knighton

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780520210813

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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.

Understanding Music
Understanding Music

Author: N. Alan Clark

Publisher:

Published: 2015-12-21

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781940771335

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Music moves through time; it is not static. In order to appreciate music wemust remember what sounds happened, and anticipate what sounds might comenext. This book takes you on a journey of music from past to present, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque Period to the 20th century and beyond!

Musicians of the Renaissance
Musicians of the Renaissance

Author: Britannica Educational Publishing

Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1615308822

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The score of Western music was writ large during the Renaissance. Secular music rivaled church music for prominence, harmonic lines intertwined and changed music forever with the emergence of polyphony, and, in general, musical composition was taken to new heights. The composers and musicians who provided the soundtrack to this remarkable period are the subject of this comprehensive volume, which also takes an in-depth look at instruments of the day.

Music of the Renaissance
Music of the Renaissance

Author: Laurenz Lütteken

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-02-12

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0520297903

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Where previous accounts of the Renaissance have not fully acknowledged the role that music played in this decisive period of cultural history, Laurenz Lütteken merges historical music analysis with the analysis of the other arts to provide a richer context for the emergence and evolution of creative cultures across civilizations. This fascinating panorama foregrounds music as a substantial component of the era and considers musical works and practices in a wider cultural-historical context. Among the topics surveyed are music's relationship to antiquity, the position of music within systems of the arts, the emergence of the concept of the musical work, as well as music's relationship to the theory and practice of painting, literature, and architecture. What becomes clear is that the Renaissance gave rise to many musical concepts and practices that persist to this day, whether the figure of the composer, musical institutions, and modes of musical writing and memory.

Music of the Renaissance
Music of the Renaissance

Author: Giulio Ongaro

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2003-11-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0313322635

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"These chapters synthesize music theory, history, and culture into a comprehensive narrative on music throughout Continental Europe and the British Isles. Illustrations, chapter bibliographies, a timeline, and a subject index complete the volume."--Jacket.

Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Author: Susan Forscher Weiss

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2010-07-16

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 0253004551

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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.

Music in the Age of the Renaissance
Music in the Age of the Renaissance

Author: Leeman Lloyd Perkins

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 1147

ISBN-13: 9780393046083

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Grounded firmly in political, religious, social, and cultural history, a history of Renaissance music provides an in-depth exploration of the musical styles and genres that mark this humanistic era of artistic and scientific revolution.

Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome
Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome

Author: Richard Sherr

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1998-05-21

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0191590231

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This book collects twelve of the papers given at a conference held at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., on 1-3 April 1993, in conjunction with the exhibition `Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture'. A group of distinguished scholars considered music in medieval and Renaissance Rome. The volume presents a series of wide-ranging and original treatments of music written for and performed in the papal court from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. New discoveries are offered which force a radical reevaluation of the Italian papal court as a musical centre during the Great Schism. A series of motets for various popes are subject to close analysis. New interpretations and information are offered concerning the repertory of the papal chapel in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the institutional life of the papal singers, and the individual biographies of singers and composers. Thought-provoking, even controversial, evaluations of the music of composers connected with, or thought to be connected with, Rome and the papal court, such as Ninot le Petit, Josquin, and Palestrina round out the volume.

A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, Second Edition
A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, Second Edition

Author: Jeffery Kite-Powell

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2007-08-02

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 0253348668

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Vocal/choral issues. The solo voice in the Renaissance / Ellen Hargis ; On singing and the vocal ensemble I / Alexander Blachly ; On singing and the vocal ensemble II / Alejandro Planchart ; Practical matters of vocal performance / Anthony Rooley -- Wind, string, and percussion instruments. Recorder ; Renaissance flute / Herbert Myers ; Capped double reeds : crumhorn--Kortholt--Schreierpfeif / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Shawm and curtal / Ross Duffin ; Racket : rackett, Rankett (Ger.), cervelas (Fr.), cervello (It.) / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Bagpipe / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Cornett / Douglas Kirk ; Sackbut / Stewart Carter -- Bowed instruments / Wendy Gillespie -- The violin / David Douglass -- Plucked instruments / Paul O'Dette -- The harp / Herbert Myers -- Early percussion / Benjamin Harms -- Keyboard instruments / Jack Ashworth -- Practical considerations/instrumentation. Proto-continuo / Jack Ashworth and Paul O'Dette ; Mixed ensembles / James Tyler ; Large ensembles / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Rehearsal tips for directors / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Performance editions / Frederick Gable -- Performance practice. Tuning and temperament / Ross Duffin ; Pitch and transposition / Herbert Myers ; Ornamentation in sixteenth-century music / Bruce Dickey ; Pronunciation guides / Ross Duffin -- Aspects of theory. Eight brief rules for composing a si placet altus, ca. 1470-1510 / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Renaissance theory / Sarah Mead -- Introduction to Renaissance dance. Early Renaissance dance, 1450-1520 / Yvonne Kendall -- For the early music director. Starting from scratch / Jeffery Kite-Powell.

Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, 1420-1540
Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, 1420-1540

Author: Tim Shephard

Publisher: Harvey Miller

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781912554027

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The first detailed survey of the representation of music in the art of Renaissance Italy, opening up new vistas within the social and culture history of Italian music and art in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.