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Book Explaining Tonality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew Brown
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 1580461603
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Explaining Tonality written by Matthew Brown and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A defense of Schenkerian analysis of tonality in music.

Book A Practical Approach to 16th Century Counterpoint

Download or read book A Practical Approach to 16th Century Counterpoint written by Robert Gauldin and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical work in writing counterpoint! Gauldin emphasizes the acquisition of writing skills in the contrapuntal discipline and the simulation of sixteenth-century sacred polyphonic idioms in this volume. The author follows a didactic method of a non-species or direct approach. While no previous contrapuntal training is necessary to absorb this material, some acquaintance with Baroque polyphonic terminology proves helpful. Key features include: musical examples illustrating specific devices are taken from musical literature or composed by the author; demonstrates the possibility of employing a single given pitch series within the contexts of different compositional techniques; includes a collection of complete or excerpted movements drawn from musical literature at the conclusion of each major textual division; emphasizes Palestrina and the Counter-Reformation sacred style; discusses various compositional procedures of the late Renaissance, including paraphrase, cantus firmus, familiar style, parody, polychoral technique, and chromaticism.

Book Music in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Download or read book Music in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Harold Gleason and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete revision of the second edition, designed as a guide and resource in the study of music from the earliest times through the Renaissance period. The authors have completely revised and updated the bibliographies; in general they are limited to English language sources. In order to facilitate study of this period and to use materials efficiently, references to facsimiles, monumental editions, complete composers' works and specialized anthologies are given. The authors present this systematic organization in this volume in the hope that students, teachers, and performers may find in it a ready tool for developing a comprehensive understanding of the music of this period.

Book The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint

Download or read book The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint written by Douglass Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering modal music from Gregorian chant through the seventeenth-century, The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint is a comprehensive textbook combining stylistic composition, theory and analysis, music history, and performance. By supplementing a modified species approach with a wealth of complete musical examples and historical information, this textbook thoroughly joins principle with practice, providing a truly immersive experience in the study of modal counterpoint and familiarizing students with modal repertoire.

Book Schenker Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hedi Siegel
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1990-02-23
  • ISBN : 9780521360388
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Schenker Studies written by Hedi Siegel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-02-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays contained in this volume provide a focus on the work of the music theorist Heinrich Schenker - a figure of legendary status who has had an incalculable influence on developments in music theory and analysis in this century. His theories, not always fully understood, have aroused some controversy. The broad spectrum of essays presented here will help clarify Schenker's ideas and their application and will also serve as a useful introduction to his work for music theorists. The essays, written by fourteen leading theorists, originate in papers delivered at the Schenker Symposium held at The Mannes College of Music, New York in 1985.

Book The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory written by Thomas Christensen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical subject, the volume has been organized within a flexible framework. Some chapters are defined chronologically within a restricted historical domain, whilst others are defined conceptually and span longer historical periods. Together the thirty-one chapters present a synthetic overview of the fascinating and complex subject that is historical music theory. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies of the most important primary and secondary literature, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.

Book A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature

Download or read book A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature written by David Carson Berry and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the growing list of Pendragon Press publications devoted to the work of Heinrich Schenker, we wish to announce the addition of this much-needed bibliography. The author, a student of Allen Forte, has created a work useful to a wide range of researchers music theorists, musicologists, music librarians and teachers. The Guide is the largest Schenkerian reference work ever published. At nearly 600 pages, it contains 3600 entries (2200 principal, 1400 secondary) representing the work of 1475 authors. Fifteen broad groupings encompass seventy topical headings, many of which are divided and subdivided again, resulting in a total of 271 headings under which entries are collected.

Book Heinrich Schenker

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Ayotte
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-08-11
  • ISBN : 1000143562
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Heinrich Schenker written by Benjamin Ayotte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of over 1,500 citations to both primary sources and the burgeoning secondary literature of Heinrich Schenker, annotated and subdivided by category. The citations are supplemented with indices cross-referencing entries according to individual works and analytical topic.

Book The Modern Invention of Medieval Music

Download or read book The Modern Invention of Medieval Music written by Daniel Leech-Wilkinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenging book which questions how much is really known about the way medieval music sounded.

Book Rhetorical and Structural Functions of Mode in Selected Motets of Josquin Des Prez

Download or read book Rhetorical and Structural Functions of Mode in Selected Motets of Josquin Des Prez written by Steven Charles Krantz and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Juan Esquivel

Download or read book Juan Esquivel written by Clive Walkley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the few peninsular composers of his generation to see his works published. He is known to have produced three large volumes of sacred polyphony - masses, motets, hymns, psalms, magnificats, and Marian antiphons - under the titles Liber primus missarum, Motecta festorum([both published 1608)and Tomus secondus, psalmorum, hymnorum... et missarum (published 1613); they reveal him to be a highly skilled craftsman. This first full-length study of his life and works presents a critical assessment of the man and his music, setting him within the social and religious context of the so-called Counter-Reformation. Beginning by outlining the facts of his life, the book goes on to offer an analysis and assessment of his output. Clive Walkley was until his retirement a lecturer in music and music education at Lancaster University.

Book Josquin Des Prez

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sydney Robinson Charles
  • Publisher : New York : Garland Pub.
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Josquin Des Prez written by Sydney Robinson Charles and published by New York : Garland Pub.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Josquin

Download or read book Josquin written by David Fallows and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great deal of research over the past forty years has had an impact Josquin's music: most of his works are now available in high-quality recordings that make them easily familiar to any researcher, and the main sources have been far more thoroughly explored. Furthermore, new biographical findings, particularly within the last ten years, have shown that much of what was written about Josquin's life was based on documents that concerned other people entirely. For example, Josquin's birthdate has been advanced by more than ten years, with major consequences for our view not only of his music and its chronology, but also of most other music of the time. This book assembles and assesses the newly available material. It builds the main works into the narrative of Josquin's life. Appendices include a critical listing of the documents about Josquin, a summary of later literary references to him, summaries of the relevant information about the main figures mentioned in the book, a list of other musicians at the time named 'Josquin' or something similar (35 of them ), and much more.

Book Josquin Des Prez

Download or read book Josquin Des Prez written by American Musicological Society and published by London ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the report of the 1971 International Josquin Festival Conference held at the Julliard School of Music in New York City. The papers assembled this collection are an elegant tribute to the study of Josquin and address biographical information, source studies, style and analysis, studies on genres, individual works, performance practice, performance and interpretation, and problems in editing Josquin's music.

Book A Practical Approach to Sixteenth century Counterpoint

Download or read book A Practical Approach to Sixteenth century Counterpoint written by Robert Gauldin and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1985 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author emphasizes acquisition of writing skills in the contrapuntal discipline and the simulation of sixteenth century sacred polyphonic idioms in this volume. The author follows a didactic method of a "non species or direct" approach. While no previous contrapuntal training is necessary to absorb this material, some acquaintance with Baroque polyphonic terminology proves helpful. Key features include: musical examples illustrating specific devices taken from musical literature or composed by the author; demonstration of the possibility of employing a single given pitch series within the contexts of different compositional techniques; a collection of complete or excerpted movements drawn from musical literature at the conclusion of each major textual division; emphasis of Palestrina and the Counter Reformation sacred style; discussion of various compositional procedures of the late Renaissance, including paraphrase, cantus firmus, familiar style, parody, polychoral technique, and chromaticism.