The Italian Madrigal in the Early Sixteenth Century
The Italian Madrigal in the Early Sixteenth Century

Author: Iain Fenlon

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780521252287

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This 1988 book examines the genesis and dissemination of the Italian madrigal in its formative stages. Iain Fenlon and James Haar have analysed this vast repertoire as it is found in manuscript and print offer information concerning the date and provenance of many fundamental sources together with a view of the subject which differs radically from previous treatments. Their study is divided into two parts. The first covers the rise and early cultivation of the madrigal, chiefly in Florence and Rome. The second contains a detailed descriptive inventory of all known manuscripts and printed editions, finishing with lists of contents and concordances in each case. This important study will serve those with an interest in Renaissance music and the changing cultural ambience of early sixteenth-century Florence and Rome.

Modal Subjectivities
Modal Subjectivities

Author: Susan McClary

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-10-22

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0520314255

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In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music a vast range of new signifying practices: musical representations of emotions, desire, gender stereotypes, reason, madness, tensions between mind and body, and much more. In doing so, it not only greatly expanded the expressive agendas of European music but also recorded certain assumptions of the time concerning selfhood, making it an invaluable resource for understanding the history of Western subjectivity. Modal Subjectivities covers the span of the sixteenth-century polyphonic madrigal, from its early manifestations in Philippe Verdelot's settings of Machiavelli in the 1520s through the tortured chromatic experiments of Carlo Gesualdo. Although McClary takes the lyrics into account in shaping her readings, she focuses particularly on the details of the music itself—the principal site of the genre's self-fashionings. In order to work effectively with musical meanings in this pretonal repertory, she also develops an analytical method that allows her to unravel the sophisticated allegorical structures characteristic of the madrigal. This pathbreaking book demonstrates how we might glean insights into a culture on the basis of its nonverbal artistic enterprises.

Sixteenth-century madrigal
Sixteenth-century madrigal

Author: Jessie A. Owens

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1989-03

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 9780824055271

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First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Analysis of Italian Madrigals and French Chansons of Jacques Arcadelt
Analysis of Italian Madrigals and French Chansons of Jacques Arcadelt

Author: Mary Ann Render

Publisher:

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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The sixteenth century produced some of the finest vocal music in the history of this art. While the style of the composers of the late sixteenth century, an era which found vocal polyphony at its best, has been given considerable attention, the music written in the first half of the sixteenth century is also worthy of investigation, since without the foundation which was laid early in the century, vocal music could not have attained the heights which it did in the latter part of the century. Among those whose names are connected with secular music of the early sixteenth century is Jacques Arcadelt. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he was prolific as a composer of both the Italian madrigal and the French chanson. Although he contributed little that was new or startling, he did, nonetheless, share a part in the development of the vocal polyphony of the sixteenth century and his music merits investigation. This does not pretend to be an exhaustive study of the style of Arcadelt. However, an analysis has been made, from selected madrigals and chansons, of melody, rhythm, dissonance, harmony, and formal devices in an attempt to determine something of the style of the composer. Also included is a comparison of the styles of the madrigal and the chanson as treated by Arcadelt.

European Music, 1520-1640
European Music, 1520-1640

Author: James Haar

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 9781843832003

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The sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries - the so-called Golden Age of Polyphony - represent a time of great change and development in European music, with the flourishing of Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina, Byrd, Victoria, Monteverdi and Schütz among others. The thirty chapters of this book, contributed by established scholars on subjects within their fields of expertise, deal with polyphonic music - sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental - during this period. The volume offers chronological surveys of national musical cultures (in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany, England, and Spain); genre studies (Mass, motet, madrigal, chanson, instrumental music, opera); and is completed with essays on intellectual and cultural developments and concepts relevant to music (music theory, printing, the Protestant Reformation and the corresponding Catholic movement, humanism, concepts of 'Renaissance' and 'Baroque'). It thus provides a complete overview of the music and its context. Contributors: GARY TOMLINSON, JAMES HAAR, TIM CARTER, GIULIO ONGARO, NOEL O'REGAN, ALLAN ATLAS, ANTHONY CUMMINGS, RICHARD FREEDMAN, JEANICE BROOKS, DAVID TUNLEY, KATE VAN ORDEN, KRISTINE FORNEY, IAIN FENLON, KAROL BERGER, PETER BERGQUIST, DAVID CROOK, ROBIN LEAVER, CRAIG MONSON, TODD BORGERDING, LOUISE K. STEIN, GIUSEPPE GERBINO, ROGER BRAY, JONATHAN WAINWRIGHT, VICTOR COELHO, KEITH POLK

Editing Music in Early Modern Germany
Editing Music in Early Modern Germany

Author: Susan Lewis Hammond

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780754655732

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Editing Music in Early Modern Germany argues that editors played a critical role in the transmission and reception of Italian music outside Italy. Like their counterparts in the world of classical learning, Renaissance music editors translated texts and reworked settings from Venetian publications, adapting them to the needs of northern audiences. Their role is most evident in the emergence of the anthology as the primary vehicle for the distribution of madrigals outside Italy. The book suggests that music editors defined the appropriation of Italian music through the same processes of adaptation, transformation and domestication evident in the broader reception of Italy north of the Alps. Through these studies, Susan Lewis Hammond's work reassesses the importance of northern Europe in the history of the madrigal and its printing.