Nuns as Artists
Nuns as Artists

Author: Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1997-05-30

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780520203860

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"Hamburger's singular discovery of a group of devotional drawings made by an anonymous nun . . . is here presented with magisterial learning, theoretical sophistication, and deep human sympathy."—V. A. Kolve, University of California, Los Angeles

Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages
Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages

Author: Reinhard Strohm

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9780198162056

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This entirely new volume of NOHM takes account of developments in late-medieval music scholarship, along with significant changes in the performance practice of the late-medieval repertory, witnessed during the latter half of the 20th century.

Ars nova
Ars nova

Author: John L. Nádas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 1351575805

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In the early fourteenth century, musicians in France and later Italy established new traditions of secular and sacred polyphony. This ars nova, or "new art," popularized by theorists such as Philippe de Vitry and Johannes de Muris was the among the first of many later movements to establish the music of the present as a clean break from the past. The rich music of this period, by composers such as Guillaume de Machaut and Francesco Landini, is not only beautiful, but also rewards deep study and analysis. Yet contradictions and gaps abound in the ars nova of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries-how do we read this music? how do we perform this music? what was the cultural context of these performances? These problems are well met by the ingenuity of approaches and solutions found by scholars in this volume. The twenty-seven articles brought together reflect the broad methodological and chronological range of scholarly inquiry on the ars nova.

The Rise of European Music, 1380-1500
The Rise of European Music, 1380-1500

Author: Reinhard Strohm

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-02-17

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13: 9780521619349

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This is a detailed and comprehensive survey of music in the late middle ages and early Renaissance. By limiting its scope to the 120 years which witnessed perhaps the most dramatic expansion of our musical heritage, the book responds, in the 1990s, to the tremendous increase in specialised research and public awareness of that period. Three of the four main Parts (I, II, IV) describe the development of polyphony and its cultural contexts in many European countries, from the successors of Machaut (d. 1377) to the achievements of Josquin des Prez and his contemporaries working in Renaissance Italy around 1500. Part III, by contrast, illustrates the musical life of the institutions, and musical practices outside the realm of composed polyphony that were traditional and common all over Europe. The book proposes fresh views in each chapter, discussing dozens of musical examples adducing well-known and hitherto unknown documents, and referring to and evaluating the most recent scholarship in the field.