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Author: Helen Deeming
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-06-30
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1107151163
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive introduction to medieval vocal and choral music, with their rich variety of genres and regional and linguistic traditions.
Author: Mark Everist
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-03
Total Pages: 982
ISBN-13: 1107495121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the emergence of plainsong to the end of the fourteenth century, this Companion covers all the key aspects of medieval music. Divided into three main sections, the book first of all discusses repertory, styles and techniques - the key areas of traditional music histories; next taking a topographical view of the subject - from Italy, German-speaking lands, and the Iberian Peninsula; and concludes with chapters on such issues as liturgy, vernacular poetry and reception. Rather than presenting merely a chronological view of the history of medieval music, the volume instead focuses on technical and cultural aspects of the subject. Over nineteen informative chapters, fifteen world-leading scholars give a perspective on the music of the Middle Ages that will serve as a point of orientation for the informed listener and reader, and is a must-have guide for anyone with an interest in listening to and understanding medieval music.
Author: F. Alberto Gallo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985-07-11
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780521284837
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new and illuminating study of medieval polyphony.
Author: Catherine A. Bradley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-09
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1108311180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Polyphony associated with the Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame marks a historical turning point in medieval music. Yet a lack of analytical or theoretical systems has discouraged close study of twelfth- and thirteenth-century musical objects, despite the fact that such creations represent the beginnings of musical composition as we know it. Is musical analysis possible for such medieval repertoires? Catherine A. Bradley demonstrates that it is, presenting new methodologies to illuminate processes of musical and poetic creation, from monophonic plainchant and vernacular French songs, to polyphonic organa, clausulae, and motets in both Latin and French. This book engages with questions of text-music relationships, liturgy, and the development of notational technologies, exploring concepts of authorship and originality as well as practices of quotation and musical reworking.
Author: John Caldwell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-26
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0429575262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1978, Medieval Music explores the fascinating development of medieval western music from its often obscure origins in the Jewish synagogue and early Church, to the mid-fifteenth century. The book is intended as a straightforward survey of medieval music and emphases the technical aspects such as form, style and notation. It is illustrated by nearly one hundred musical examples, the majority of which have been transcribed from original sources and many of which contains chapters on Latin chant and other forms of sacred monophony, secular song, early polyphony, the ars antiqua, French and Italian fourteenth-century music, English music, and fifteenth-century music. Each chapter is followed by a classified bibliography divided into musical sources, literary sources and modern studies; in addition to a comprehensive bibliography.
Author: Helen Deeming
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-05-28
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1107062632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This in-depth exploration of key manuscript sources reveals new information about medieval songs and sets them in their original contexts.
Author: Mark Everist
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-09
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1108577075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spanning a millennium of musical history, this monumental volume brings together nearly forty leading authorities to survey the music of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. All of the major aspects of medieval music are considered, making use of the latest research and thinking to discuss everything from the earliest genres of chant, through the music of the liturgy, to the riches of the vernacular song of the trouvères and troubadours. Alongside this account of the core repertory of monophony, The Cambridge History of Medieval Music tells the story of the birth of polyphonic music, and studies the genres of organum, conductus, motet and polyphonic song. Key composers of the period are introduced, such as Leoninus, Perotinus, Adam de la Halle, Philippe de Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut, and other chapters examine topics ranging from musical theory and performance to institutions, culture and collections.
Author: Helen Deeming
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-05-11
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1009340832
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What characterises medieval polyphony and song? Who composed this music, sang it, and wrote it down? Where and when did the different genres originate, and under what circumstances were they created and performed? This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the rich variety of polyphonic practices and song traditions during the Middle Ages. It explores song from across Europe, in Latin and vernacular languages (precursors to modern Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish); and polyphony from early improvised organum to rhythmically and harmonically complex late medieval motets. Each chapter focuses on a particular geographical location, setting out the specific local contexts of the music created there. Guiding the reader through the musical techniques of melody, harmony, rhythm, and notation that distinguish the different genres of polyphony and song, the authors also consider the factors that make modern performances of this music sound so different from one another.
Author: Tess Knighton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780520210813
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: David Fenwick Wilson
Publisher: New York : Schirmer Books ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Music of the Middle Ages provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of musical style and compositional technique from early plainchant to the flourishing of fourteenth-century polyphony.--From publisher description.
