Two Cambrai Antiphoners
Author: Ruth Steiner
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 368
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Author: Ruth Steiner
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 368
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 372
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses and analyzes a repertory of poetry and chant that was used during the late Middle Ages in church services of the Divine Office, a repertory mostly unexplored to date.
Author: Matthew S. Champion
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-11-13
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 022651479X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the course of the fifteenth century, the Low Countries transformed Europe's economic, political and cultural life. Innovative and influential cultural practices emerged across the region in flourishing courts, towns, religious houses, guilds and confraternities. Whether in visual culture, music, devotional practice, or communal rituals, the thriving cultures of the Low Countries wrestled with time, both through explicit measurement and reflection, and in the rhythms of social and religious life. This book offers a deeper understanding of how time was structured and experienced by different constituencies through a series of detailed readings of diverse cultural objects and practices, ranging from woodcuts and painted altarpieces, to early print books, and to the use of polyphony in the liturgy. Individual chapters are devoted to life in the university towns of Louvain and Ghent, the liturgical rituals at Cambrai Cathedral, and the rich pageantry that marked the courts of Philip the Good and the new Burgundian rulers. What emerges is a complex temporal landscape in which devotional and secular practices and experiences merged into a new "fullness of time."
Author: Sarah Ann Long
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1580469965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first study focusing on the composition of new plainchant in northern-French confraternities for masses and offices in honor of saints thought to have healing powers
Author: Alejandro Enrique Planchart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-09-06
Total Pages: 1313
ISBN-13: 1108547702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the work of one of medieval music's most important figures, and in so doing presents an extended panorama of musical life in Europe at the end of the middle ages. Guillaume Du Fay rose from obscure beginnings to become the most significant composer of the fifteenth century, a man courted by kings and popes, and this study of his life and career provides a detailed examination of his entire output, including a number of newly discovered works. As well as offering musical analysis, this volume investigates his close association with the Cathedral of Cambrai, and explores how, at a time when music was becoming increasingly professionalised, Du Fay forged his own identity as 'a composer'. This detailed biography will be highly valuable for those interested in the history of medieval and church music, as well as for scholars of Du Fay's musical legacy.
Author: Richard Kenneth Emmerson
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 162
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Translated for the first time into English, the 14th-century French play Jour du Jugement is the most fully-developed account of the career of Antichrist in any dramatic form. This fascinating theatrical extravaganza stages two of the most important events in Christian eschatology: the appearance, deception, and persecution of the Antichrist, and the Last Judgement. The introduction discusses theological backgrounds, literary analogues, and staging issues. Substantial commentary explicates socio-historical allusions and biblical references, suggests performance effects, and describes what is known of accompanying music."
Author: ThomasForrest Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 1351572385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Latin liturgical music of the medieval church is the earliest body of Western music to survive in a more or less complete form. It is a body of thousands of individual pieces, of striking beauty and aesthetic appeal, which has the special quality of embodying, of giving voice to, the words of the liturgy itself. Plainchant is the music that underpins essentially all other music of the middle ages (and far beyond), and is the music that is most abundantly preserved. It is a subject that has engaged a great deal of research and debate in the last fifty years and the nature of the complex issues that have recently arisen in research on chant are explored here in an overview of current issues and problems.
Author: Robert Michael Nosow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-02-02
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0521193478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first large-scale study of how fifteenth-century motets were used across Western Europe, dispelling the mysteries surrounding these outstanding works.
Author: Alexander Andrée
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 422
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alma Santosuosso
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1351557378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the most recent findings of twenty of the foremost European and North American researchers into the music of the Middle Ages. The chronological scope of their topics is wide, from the ninth to the fifteenth century. Wide too is the range of the subject matter: included are essays on ecclesiastical chant, early and late (and on the earliest and latest of its supernumerary tropes, monophonic and polyphonic); on the innovative and seminal polyphony of Notre-Dame de Paris, and the Latin poetry associated with the great cathedral; on the liturgy of Paris, Rome and Milan; on musical theory; on the emotional reception of music near the end of the medieval period and the emergence of modern sensibilities; even on methods of encoding the melodies that survive from the Middle Ages, encoding that makes it practical to apply computer-assisted analysis to their vast number. The findings presented in this book will be of interest to those engaged by music and the liturgy, active researchers and students. All the papers are carefully and extensively documented by references to medieval sources.