Download or read book A New Perspective on Johannes de Grocheio s Ars Musicae written by Patricia Alice Mitchell Dewitt and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ars Musicae of Johannes de Grocheio written by John William Trout and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannes de Grocheio's Ars Musicae (ca. 1300) is an enigmatic treatise. He attempts to delineate all contemporaneous music practiced in and around Paris. The treatise is the earliest to include a formal discussion of secular music, in addition to composed and liturgical, in a systematic and pedagogical fashion. Moreover, addressing sociological functions of specific forms and genres is unique for his time. However, Grocheio's discussions of musical forms, genres, and conventional theoretical issues are frequently ambiguous. This study attempts to address the ambiguity. The liturgical portion has suffered much neglect as scholars have directed their attention to Grocheio's discussion of secular music. However, nearly one-third of Grocheio's treatise is devoted to liturgical music. Hence, this study explores the content, approach, and value of Grocheio's discussion of liturgical music. This information must be evaluated if holistic clarity regarding Ars Musicae is desired. Furthermore, this study provides new interpretations of the more familiar topics encountered in Grocheio research. I proceed by first summarizing and frequently reinterpreting the basic contents of the treatise and authorial background. This constitutes the first two chapters. The heart of the study investigates some ambiguous and previously unaddressed issues of terminology and concept: mode, measuring, the motet, and numeric systems. Though I pursue this goal throughout, the latter task constitutes Chapter 3 in its entirety. If one reads Grocheio's way of thinking, character, and work as a collective text, enlightened ideas surface regarding value embodied in academic interaction of late medieval Parisian culture. Grocheio's work reflects human intellect applied to the domain of music. Because of its approach, it presents a rare opportunity to have a glimpse of a distant and deceptively foreign past, a divide frequently underestimated. The diversity and complexity now thought to be characteristic of the Middle Ages is clearly embodied here. As I explore these matters, I hope a modified view of Grocheio will emerge. I seek greater clarity regarding contemporaneous terminological and ideological issues related to late medieval music. Answers to these questions should not only be a beneficial addition to Grocheio research, but also advantageous to medieval research overall.
Download or read book Ars musice written by Johannes de Grocheio and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ars musice, composed in Paris during the late thirteenth century, reflects Johannes de Grocheio's awareness of the complexity of the task of describing music. As the editors note in their introduction, "Grocheio is aware of the enormous range of types of music performed in different ways in different places. How can he impose order on this enormous subject matter? He decided to resolve this question by structuring his discussion around the practice of music that he observed in the city of Paris, organized into three main 'branches': music of the people (musica vulgalis), composite or regular, 'which they call measured music' (musica mensurata), and ecclesiastical music (musica ecclesiastica), which he claims derives from the other two (AM 6.2). The originality of Grocheio's treatise has attracted considerable scholarly interest. It has long been recognized as a unique source of information about musical life in medieval Paris. Through his treatise, Grocheio enables a modern reader to become aware of the complex auditory environment of that city in the late thirteenth century as well as of its intellectual vitality at a particularly vibrant moment in its history."
Download or read book The Sound of Medieval Song written by Timothy J. McGee and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998-04-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sound of Medieval Song is a study of how sacred and secular music was actually sung during the Middle Ages. The source of the information is the actual notation in the early manuscripts as well as statements found in approximately 50 theoretical treatises written between the years 600-1500. The writings describe various singing practices and both desirable and undesirable vocal techniques, providing a fairly accurate picture of how singers approached the music of the period. Detailed descriptions of the types and uses of improvised ornament indicate that in performance the music was highly ornate, and included trill, gliss, reverberation, pulsation, pitch inflection, non-diatonic tones, and cadenza-like passages of various lengths. The treatises also provide evidence of stylistic differences in various geographical locations. McGee draws conclusions about the kind of vocal production and techniques necessary in order to reproduce the music as it was performed during the Middle Ages, aligning the practices much more closely with those of the Middle East than has ever been previously acknowledged.
Download or read book Early Music History Volume 27 written by Iain Fenlon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of music from the early Middle Ages to end of the seventeenth century.
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Download or read book The Ars musica Attributed to Magister Lambertus Aristoteles written by Christian Meyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treatise on musica plana and musica mensurabilis written by Lambertus/Aristoteles is our main witness to thirteenth-century musical thought in the decades between the treatises of Johannes de Garlandia and Franco of Cologne. Most treatises on music of this century - except for Franco‘s treatise on musical notation - survive in only a single copy; Lambertus‘s Ars musica, extant in five sources, is thus distinguished by a more substantial and long-lasting manuscript tradition. Unique in its ambitions, this treatise presents both the rudiments of the practice of liturgical chant and the principles of polyphonic notation in a dense and rigorous manner like few music treatises of its time - a conceptual framework characteristic of Parisian university culture in the thirteenth century. This new edition of Lambertus‘s treatise is the first since Edmond de Coussemaker‘s of 1864. Christian Meyer‘s meticulous edition is displayed on facing pages with Karen Desmonds English translation, and the treatise and translation are prefaced by a substantial introduction to the text and its author by Christian Meyer, translated by Barbara Haggh-Huglo.
Download or read book The Ars musica Attributed to Magister Lambertus Aristoteles written by translatedbyKaren Desmond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treatise on musica plana and musica mensurabilis written by Lambertus/Aristoteles is our main witness to thirteenth-century musical thought in the decades between the treatises of Johannes de Garlandia and Franco of Cologne. Most treatises on music of this century - except for Franco?s treatise on musical notation - survive in only a single copy; Lambertus?s Ars musica, extant in five sources, is thus distinguished by a more substantial and long-lasting manuscript tradition. Unique in its ambitions, this treatise presents both the rudiments of the practice of liturgical chant and the principles of polyphonic notation in a dense and rigorous manner like few music treatises of its time - a conceptual framework characteristic of Parisian university culture in the thirteenth century. This new edition of Lambertus?s treatise is the first since Edmond de Coussemaker?s of 1864. Christian Meyer?s meticulous edition is displayed on facing pages with Karen Desmond?s English translation, and the treatise and translation are prefaced by a substantial introduction to the text and its author by Christian Meyer, translated by Barbara Haggh-Huglo.
Download or read book The Music of the Troubadours written by Elizabeth Aubrey and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Music of the Troubadours is the first comprehensive critical study of the extant melodies of the troubadours of Occitania. It begins with an overview of their social and political milieu in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, then provides brief biographies of the troubadours whose music survives. The four manuscripts that transmit this music are described in detail, with attention to their genesis in the overlapping roles of composers, singers, and scribes"--Back cover
Download or read book Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages written by Reinhard Strohm and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entirely new volume of NOHM takes account of developments in late-medieval music scholarship, along with significant changes in the performance practice of the late-medieval repertory, witnessed during the latter half of the 20th century.
Download or read book Music and the moderni 1300 1350 written by Karen Desmond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music theorists labelled the musical art of the 1330s and 1340s as 'new' and 'modern'. A close reading of writings on music theory and the polyphonic repertory from the first half of the fourteenth century reveals a modern musical art that arose due to specific innovations in music notation. The French ars nova employed as its theoretical fundament a new system for arranging musical time proposed by the astronomer and mathematician Jean des Murs. Challenging prevailing accounts of the ars nova, this book presents the 'new art' within the intellectual context of its time, revises the datings of Jean des Murs's writings on music theory, and presents the intersection of theory and practice for a crucial era in the history of music. Through contemporaneous accounts, Desmond explores how individuals were involved in 'changing' music in early fourteenth-century France, and the technical developments they pursued that precipitated this stylistic change.
Download or read book Music in Early Franciscan Thought written by Peter Loewen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music in Early Franciscan Thought is an interdisciplinary study exploring the broad relevance of music in Franciscan hagiography, art, theology, philosophy, and preaching between the founding of the Order in 1210 and 1300—a period covering their rapid ascendancy in medieval society as an Order of clerics. The book covers representations of music in visual and literary hagiography, the inspiration of Pope Innocent III, and the formative writings of William of Middleton and David von Augsburg. Later chapters examine the science and practice of music and its relevance to the ministry of preaching through the writings of Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, and Juan Gil de Zamora.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Fifteenth Century Music written by Anna Maria Busse Berger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics. Multidisciplinary studies of music and architecture, feasting, poetry, politics, liturgy, and religious devotion rub shoulders with studies of compositional techniques, musical notation, music manuscripts, and reception history. Generously illustrated with figures and examples, this volume paints a vibrant picture of musical life in a period characterized by extraordinary innovation and artistic achievement.
Download or read book Medieval Polyphony and Song written by Helen Deeming and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages written by Christopher Page and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies assembled in this work include Medieval writings of many kinds - sermons, books of theology, epics and romances, as well as technical treatises on music - containing a wealth of information about the music and instruments of the Middle Ages.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Board of Regents written by University of Michigan. Board of Regents and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1972 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regents Proceedings written by University of Michigan. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
