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Book A Handbook of the Troubadours

Download or read book A Handbook of the Troubadours written by F. R. P. Akehurst and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies. Standing at the beginning of the history of modern European verse, the troubadours were the prime poets and composers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the South of France. No study of medieval literature is complete without an examination of the courtly love which is celebrated in the elaborately rhymed stanzas of troubadour verse, creations whose words and melodies were imitated by poets and musicians all over medieval Europe. The words of about 2,500 troubadour songs have survived, along with 250 melodies, and all have come under intense scholarly scrutiny. This Handbook brings together the fruits of this scrutiny, giving teachers and students an overview of the fundamental issues in troubadour scholarship. All quotations are given in the original Old Occitan and in English. The editors provide a list of troubadour editions and an index, and each chapter includes a list of additional readings. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies. Standing at the beginning

Book Manuscripta

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 712 pages

Download or read book Manuscripta written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for Feb. 1957-July 1959 include a Checklist of the Vatican manuscript codices available for consultation at the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library at St. Louis University, pts. 1-8.

Book Journal of the American Musicological Society

Download or read book Journal of the American Musicological Society written by American Musicological Society and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Emergence of Gregorian Chant  A study of modes and melodies  2 v

Download or read book The Emergence of Gregorian Chant A study of modes and melodies 2 v written by Hendrik Van der Werf and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Music in Antiquity

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  • Author : Joan Goodnick Westenholz
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2014-04-02
  • ISBN : 3110370603
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book Music in Antiquity written by Joan Goodnick Westenholz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Parisian Two part Organa

Download or read book The Parisian Two part Organa written by Hans Tischler and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition, for the first time, presents a complete modern rendering of an extensive repertoire of works crucial to the development of polyphonic Western music, the organa at Notre Dame cathedral of Paris ca.1165-1225. The two chief composers, Leonin and Perotin, devised the first musical notation to indicate pitch and rhythm, and formulated several musical styles and types of composition which were sung throughout Europe for approximately two centuries. Hans Tischler's edition explores the evolution of compositional methods for both composers, examining the individual styles of organum purum, discant, copula, and pseudo-discant. A second evolutionary factor considered is the selected use of melodic formulae and the recurrence of whole phrases and sections which interrelate numerous organa. A third consideration of the analysis is the increasing complexity of the rhythmic treatment in the tenors of discant clausulae, from Leonin's creation of modal notation, to Perotin's invention of additional rhythmic patterns and their notational symbols. The repertoire comprises settings of well over one hundred chants, the majority of them in two or three versions; and each setting is comprised of several independent and exchangeable sections, totaling approximately 1,500. Only portions of this vast repertoire have been previously published, however, this edition includes all relevant extant material, drawn from sixteen manuscripts, several of which contain two or more collections of organal works . It also refers to related compositions in seven additional collections and to chant sources in eight medieval and eight modem codices.

Book Reader s Guide to Music

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  • Author : Murray Steib
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-12-02
  • ISBN : 1135942625
  • Pages : 928 pages

Download or read book Reader s Guide to Music written by Murray Steib and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).

Book Jazzology

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  • Author : Robert Rawlins
  • Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 0634086782
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book Jazzology written by Robert Rawlins and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information jazz theory for all types of musicians, and covers harmony, scales and modes, voicing, arrangement techniques, improvisational strategies, fundamentals, and other related topics; and also includes exercises.

Book Histories and Narratives of Music Analysis

Download or read book Histories and Narratives of Music Analysis written by Milena Medić and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a cross section of current directions in the broad field of music analysis as practiced by a transnational community of scholars. Music analysis is presented as a vibrant multi-faceted field of research which constantly re-examines its own postulates, while also establishing dialogues with a large number of other disciplines.

Book Guillaume de Machaut

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  • Author : Lawrence Earp
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-08-21
  • ISBN : 1136781765
  • Pages : 696 pages

Download or read book Guillaume de Machaut written by Lawrence Earp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the current state of research on Machaut, the major figure of 14th-century French music and poetry, giving fair representation to the many areas of Machaut research that are pursued in fields outside music.Coverage of the current state of knowledge on each of the manuscripts includes the newly discovered Aberystwyth manuscript, described in detail here for the first time. A section on the large narrative poems pulls together recent research of several scholars and offers new views. An up-to-date concordance of the miniatures in all of the illustrated Machaut manuscripts gives information on where published studies and facsimiles may be found. The discography is the most complete list of Machaut recordings yet compiled and provides critical evaluations of recordings most valuable for instruction, according to our latest conception of performance practice in the 14th-century.A biography section organizes the documentary material in a way that will facilitate further research. The bibliography of secondary works cites books, editions, articles, and dissertations (including forthcoming works) from 1740 to 1991, in French, English, the other western European languages, Polish, Russian, and Japanese. The volume is fully indexed.

Book The Beneventan Chant

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  • Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
  • Publisher : CUP Archive
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780521343107
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book The Beneventan Chant written by Thomas Forrest Kelly and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1989 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Kelly's major study of the Beneventan chant reinstates one of the oldest surviving bodies of Western music: the Latin church music of southern Italy as it existed before the spread of Gregorian chant.

Book The New Blue Music

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  • Author : Richard J. Ripani
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2009-09-23
  • ISBN : 1496801288
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book The New Blue Music written by Richard J. Ripani and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhythm & blues emerged from the African American community in the late 1940s to become the driving force in American popular music over the next half-century. Although sometimes called “doo-wop,” “soul,” “funk,” “urban contemporary,” or “hip-hop,” R&B is actually an umbrella category that includes all of these styles and genres. It is in fact a modern-day incarnation of a musical tradition that stretches back to nineteenth-century America, and even further to African beginnings. The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999 traces the development of R&B from 1950 to 1999 by closely analyzing the top twenty-five songs of each decade. The music of artists as wide-ranging as Louis Jordan; John Lee Hooker; Ray Charles; James Brown; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson; Public Enemy; Mariah Carey; and Usher takes center stage as the author illustrates how R&B has not only retained its traditional core style, but has also experienced a “re-Africanization” over time. By investigating musical elements of form, style, and content in R&B—and offering numerous musical examples—the book shows the connection between R&B and other forms of American popular and religious music, such as spirituals, ragtime, blues, jazz, country, gospel, and rock 'n' roll. With this evidence in hand, the author hypothesizes the existence of an even larger musical “super-genre” which he labels “The New Blue Music.”

Book Pop Music  Pop Culture

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  • Author : Chris Rojek
  • Publisher : Polity
  • Release : 2011-06-13
  • ISBN : 0745642640
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Pop Music Pop Culture written by Chris Rojek and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is happening to pop music and pop culture? Synthesizers, samplers and MDI systems have allowed anyone with basic computing skills to make music. Exchange is now automatic and weightless with the result that the High Street record store is dying. MySpace, Twitter and You Tube are now more important publicity venues for new bands than the concert tour routine. Unauthorized consumption in the form of illegal downloading has created a financial crisis in the industry. The old postwar industrial planning model of pop, which centralized control in the hands of major record corporations, and divided the market into neat segments, is dissolving in front of our eyes. This book offers readers a comprehensive guide to understanding pop music today. It provides a clear survey of the field and a description of core concepts. The main theoretical approaches to the analysis of pop are described and critically assessed. The book includes a major investigation of the revolutionary changes in the production, exchange and consumption of pop music that are currently underway. Pop Music, Pop Culture is an accomplished, magnetically interesting guide to understanding pop music today.

Book Saxophone Journal

Download or read book Saxophone Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sacred Sound and Social Change

Download or read book Sacred Sound and Social Change written by Lawrence A. Hoffman and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 1993-01-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers, students, composers, performers, and other practitioners of sacred sound will appreciate this volume because, unlike any book currently available on sacred music, it treats the history, development, current practices, composition, and critical views of the liturgical music of both the Jewish and Christian traditions. Contributors trace Jewish music from its place in Hebrew Scriptures through the nineteenth-century Reform movement. Similar accounts of Christian music describe its growth up to the Protestant Reformation, as well as post-Reformation development. Other essays explore liturgical music in contemporary North America by analyzing it against the backdrop of the continuous social change that characterizes our era.