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Medieval and Early Modern Soundscapes
Häftad, 2026
346 kr
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Sheds new light on the concept of "soundscapes", enriching our understanding of the functions of music and sound in medieval and early modern cultures.Scholarly interest in the idea of the "soundscape" has grown steadily in recent years, particularly in relation to the ways in which music and sound …
European Music, 1520-1640
Av James Haar
Häftad, 2014
450 kr
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An authoritative survey of music and its context in the Renaissance.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, …
Verse and Voice in Byrd's Song Collections of 1588 and 1589
Inbunden, 2016
1342 kr
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First full monograph to focus entirely on the English-language songs set to music by Byrd.As he grappled with the challenges of composing for various instrumental and vocal ensembles, William Byrd (c. 1540-1623), England's premier Renaissance composer, devoted considerable attention to the poetry …
Montpellier Codex
The Final Fascicle. Contents, Contexts, Chronologies
Av Catherine A Bradley, Karen Desmond
Inbunden, 2018
1342 kr
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The final section of the Montpellier Codex analysed in full for the first time, with major implications for late-medieval music.The Montpellier Codex (Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Section Médecine, H.196) occupies a central place in scholarship on medieval music. This small book, packed with …
Critical Companion to Medieval Motets
Inbunden, 2018
1746 kr
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First full comprehensive guide to one of the most important genres of music in the Middle Ages.Motets constitute the most important polyphonic genre of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Moreover, these compositions are intrinsically involved in the early development of polyphony. This volume …
Piety and Polyphony in Sixteenth-Century Holland
The Choirbooks of St Peter's Church, Leiden
Av Eric Jas
Inbunden, 2018
445 kr
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Study of musical manuscripts from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, opening a window on piety, liturgy and musical life in late medieval society.The musical culture of the Low Countries in the early modern period was a flourishing one, apparent beyond the big cathedrals and monasteries, and …
Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Av Katherine Butler, Samantha Bassler
Inbunden, 2019
875 kr
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The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.Myths and stories offer a window onto medieval and early modern musical culture. Far from merely offering material for musical settings, authoritative tales from classical mythology, ancient history and the Bible were treated as …
Revisiting the Codex Buranus
Contents, Contexts, Composition
Av Tristan E. Franklinos, Henry Hope
Inbunden, 2020
1759 kr
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The Codex Buranus, compiled, in all likelihood, in South Tyrol in the first half of the thirteenth century, has fascinated modern scholars and performers ever since its rediscovery in 1803. Its diverse range of texts (some famously featuring in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana) and music gives testimony …
Music in Elizabethan Court Politics
Häftad, 2019
359 kr
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Music and musical entertainments are here shown to be used for different ends, by both monarch and courtiers.Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) had a strong reputation for musicality; her court musicians, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, even suggested that music was indispensable to the state. But what …
Segovia Manuscript
A European Musical Repertory in Spain, c.1500
Av Wolfgang Fuhrmann, Cristina Urchueguía
Inbunden, 2019
1357 kr
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Essays illuminating a complex and sophisticated musical manuscript.The Segovia Manuscript (Cathedral of Segovia, Archivo Capitular) has puzzled musicologists ever since its rediscovery at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is unique: no other manuscript of the period transmits a comparable …
Verse and Voice in Byrd's Song Collections of 1588
Häftad, 2020
338 kr
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First full monograph to focus entirely on the English-language songs set to music by Byrd.As he grappled with the challenges of composing for various instrumental and vocal ensembles, William Byrd (c. 1540-1623), England's premier Renaissance composer, devoted considerable attention to the poetry …
Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages
Essays in Honour of Christopher Page
Av Tess Knighton, David Skinner
Inbunden, 2020
1746 kr
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Essays on important topics in early music.Christopher Page is one of the most influential and distinguished scholars and performers of medieval music. His first book, Voices and Instruments of the Middle Ages (1987), marked the beginning of what might be called the"Page turn" in the study and …
Critical Companion to Medieval Motets
Av Jared C, Hartt, Jared C Hartt
Häftad, 2021
450 kr
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First full comprehensive guide to one of the most important genres of music in the Middle Ages.Motets constitute the most important polyphonic genre of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Moreover, these compositions are intrinsically involved in the early development of polyphony. This volume …
Dorset Rotulus
Contextualizing and Reconstructing the Early English Motet
Av Margaret Bent, Jared C Hartt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1746 kr
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The exciting discovery of new music from the Middle Ages sheds new light on knowledge of the medieval motet.From its origins in the thirteenth century, the Latin-texted motet in England and France became the most significant and diverse polyphonic genre of the fourteenth, a body of music important …
Medieval Songbook
Trouvère MS C
Av Elizabeth Eva Leach, Joseph W. Mason m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1809 kr
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Detailed exploration of an enigmatic manuscript containing the texts to hundreds of songs, but no musical notation.The medieval songbook known variously as trouvère manuscript C or the "Bern Chansonnier" (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 389) is one of the most important witnesses to musical life in …
Composers in the Middle Ages
Av Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne, Gaël Saint-Cricq
Inbunden, 2024
1337 kr
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A reflection on the idea of the "composer" in the medieval period, including a study of the individuals and groups active in the creation of medieval music.The modern concept of the individual composer is central to accounts of Western music, and continues to represent a critical field of research …
Liturgy, Music, and Identity in Medieval St Andrews
W1 and its Context
Inbunden, 2027
1545 kr
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Analyses the role of music and liturgy at St Andrews, through a detailed study of one of the most important extant musical manuscripts from the thirteenth century.Medieval musical and liturgical sources both prescribed ritual performance and represented identity in material form, but their makers …
Medieval and Early Modern Soundscapes
Inbunden, 2026
1233 kr
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Sheds new light on the concept of "soundscapes", enriching our understanding of the functions of music and sound in medieval and early modern cultures.Scholarly interest in the idea of the "soundscape" has grown steadily in recent years, particularly in relation to the ways in which music and sound …
Machaut's Music: New Interpretations
Inbunden, 2003
1357 kr
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Guillaume de Machaut was the foremost poet-composer of his time. Studies look at all aspects of his prodigious output.Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) is regarded as the greatest French poet-composer of the middle ages, as he was during his lifetime. A trained secretary, with a passion for …
Church Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain
Inbunden, 2004
1239 kr
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Analysis of Latin sacred music written during the century illustrates the rapid and marked change in style and sophistication.Winner of the 2007 AMS Robert M. Stevenson prizeThe arrival of Francisco de Peñalosa at the Aragonese court in May 1498 marks something of an epoch in the history of Spanish …
Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture
Learning from the Learned. Essays in Honour of Margaret Bent
Av Suzannah Clark, Elizabeth Eva Leach
Inbunden, 2005
1357 kr
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Essays - collected in honour of Margaret Bent - examining how medieval and Renaissance composers responded to the tradition in which they worked through a process of citation of and commentary on earlier authors.Essays in honour of Margaret Bent.The chapters of this book probe the varied functions …
Young Choristers, 650-1700
Inbunden, 2008
1513 kr
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First full-length consideration of the role played by young singers, bringing out its full significance and its development over time.Young singers played a central role in a variety of religious institutional settings: urban cathedrals, collegiate churches, monasteries, guilds, and …
Hermann Pötzlinger's Music Book
The St Emmeram Codex and its Contexts
Inbunden, 2009
590 kr
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A study of one of the most significant medieval manuscripts containing music, and its owner, sheds light on many aspects of contemporary culture.Hermann Pötzlinger (+ 1469), the university-educated schoolmaster of the monastery of St Emmeram, Regensburg, was the creator of one of the largest and …
Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis
Words and Music in the Second-Mode Tracts
Av Emma Hornby
Inbunden, 2009
1357 kr
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A sensitive and detailed investigation of the complex relationship between text and music in medieval chant.How do text and melody relate in western liturgical chant? Is the music simply an abstract vehicle for the text, or does it articulate textual structure and meaning? These questions are …
Juan Esquivel: A Master of Sacred Music during the Spanish Golden Age
Inbunden, 2010
1342 kr
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First study of Juan Esquivel, a highly significant figure in Spanish musical life in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.Juan Esquivel was a cathedral choirmaster and composer, active in Spain during the period c.1580-c .1623 in which all aspects of the arts flourished, and one of …
Essays on Renaissance Music in Honour of David Fallows
Bon jour, bon mois et bonne estrenne
Av Fabrice Fitch, Jacobijn Kiel
Inbunden, 2011
1746 kr
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New articles on du Fay and Desprez, on sacred and secular music, and reception history, form a fitting tribute to one of the field's foremost scholars.This volume celebrates the work of David Fallows, one of the most influential scholars in the field of medieval and Renaissance music. It draws …
Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V
The Capilla Flamenca and the Art of Political Promotion
Inbunden, 2012
1342 kr
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Shows how Charles V used music and ritual to reinforce his image and status as the most important and powerful sovereign in Europe.The presentation of Charles V as universal monarch, defender of the faith, magnanimous peacemaker, and reborn Roman Emperor became the mission of artists, poets, and …
Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants
Psalmi, Threni and the Easter Vigil Canticles
Inbunden, 2013
1746 kr
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The tradition of Old Hispanic liturgical chant is here examined through a new methodology, enabling striking new insights into its use.Medieval Iberian liturgical practice was independent of the Roman liturgy. As such, its sources preserve an unfamiliar and fascinating devotional journey through …
Music in Elizabethan Court Politics
Inbunden, 2015
1342 kr
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Music and musical entertainments are here shown to be used for different ends, by both monarch and courtiers.Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) had a strong reputation for musicality; her court musicians, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, even suggested that music was indispensable to the state. But what …
Cristóbal de Morales
Sources, Influences, Reception
Av Owen Rees, Bernadette Nelson
Inbunden, 2007
678 kr
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A comprehensive survey of the music of Cristóbal de Morales, the leading Spanish composer of his time.Cristóbal de Morales was the most famous Spanish composer of the mid sixteenth century. His music was known internationally during his lifetime. He was eulogized by contemporary writers, and his …
