Download or read book The Cultural Context of Medieval Music written by Nancy Van Deusen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgently needed guide to understanding medieval music to be used as a text for the university undergraduate, graduate students in music and interdisciplinary medieval studies, and for the professional musicologist and medievalist. This book will also be appreciated by everyone interested in early music. Nancy van Deusen's The Cultural Context of Medieval Music addresses the mental landscape surrounding music that, especially, was sung and experienced in the Middle Ages. Largely anonymous in its composition, and apparently lacking the motivation of fame and commerce, music within a well thought-out system of education served a purpose that goes far beyond casual entertainment or personal professional advancement. Offering experience through performance, music exemplified the basic principles not only of the material and possible measurements of the visible world—such as of objects, relationships, and movement—but also of the invisible materials of sound and time, making it an ideal medium for working with unseen substances such as concepts, imaginations, and ideas. St. Augustine in the late fourth century reinforced the importance of music for the process of learning when he wrote that nothing could be truly understood without music. This book shows how this, in fact, is the case—a message of great relevance today.
Download or read book Music at Nevers Cathedral Edition written by Nancy Elizabeth Van Deusen and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Music and Dance of the World s Religions written by E. Rust and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-08-23 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the world-wide association of music and dance with religion, this is the first full-length study of the subject from a global perspective. The work consists of 3,816 references divided among 37 chapters. It covers tribal, regional, and global religions and such subjects as shamanism, liturgical dance, healing, and the relationship of music, mathematics, and mysticism. The referenced materials display such diverse approaches as analysis of music and dance, description of context, direct experience, observation, and speculation. The references address topics from such disciplines as sociology, anthropology, history, linguistics, musicology, ethnomusicology, theology, medicine, semiotics, and computer technology. Chapter 1 consists of general references to religious music and dance. The remaining 36 chapters are organized according to major geographical areas. Most chapters begin with general reference works and bibliographies, then continue with topics specific to the region or religion. This book will be of use to anyone with an interest in music, dance, religion, or culture.
Download or read book Theology and Music at the Early University written by Nancy van Deusen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the climax of one of his most important and comprehensive works, De cessatione legalium, the thirteenth-century theologian and natural philosopher, Robert Grosseteste, uses a musical example to make a point fundamental to the treatise. Music, using time as its material, located between the abstract and the concrete, served as an analogy, thus making a difficult philosophical concept perceptible. In using music as an analogy, Gorsseteste drew upon a long tradition established by Augustine, confirmed within the new Aristotelian reception, and a newly-translated Platonic dialogue. But the first rector of the University of Oxford was also demonstrating music's place within the curriculum of the early university, namely, as a ministry discipline, efficiently and efficaciously exemplifying traditional Augustinian, as well as new Aristotelian principles. This book unites the most important theological-philosophical subjects discussed by Robert Grosseteste throughout his prodigious output, with those exemplified by an anonymous contemporary English writer on music. The work shows how music collaborated with the other liberal arts, operating within the early university curriculum as a ministry discipline. Music made accessible through the figurae of its notation, and through sound, otherwise nearly unapproachable, new Aristotelian concepts. The influence was reciprocal in that new Aristotelian tools and conceptualization greatly influenced music notation and style. Music theory has been studied in isolation, as pertaining only to music. This study is the first to relate music of the early thirteenth century to its intellectual context, overturning dogma, uncritically accepted since the beginning of this century, concerning so-called “modal rhythm,” and showing how “contrary motion,” rather than forming a musical convention, demonstrated a key Aristotelian concept.
Download or read book Medieval Liturgical Music of Zamora written by Kathleen E. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gothic Song written by Margot Elsbeth Fassler and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1993-08-19 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of how a particular genre of liturgical texts and music, the Victorine sequences, were first written in great numbers during the twelfth-century.
Download or read book The Gothic Cathedral written by Otto Georg von Simson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work on Gothic religious architecture, now with added illustrations and a new section by the author on rose windows No other monument of a culture so radically different from our own is as much a part of contemporary life as the Gothic cathedral. In this illuminating book, esteemed art historian Otto Georg von Simson explores how Gothic architecture is an expression of supernatural reality, and shows how, to those who designed and worshipped in the great cathedrals of France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, this symbolic function of sacred architecture overshadowed all others. The Gothic Cathedral takes readers from the birth of the Gothic style with the Basilica of St.-Denis to the consummation of the form in the majestic Cathedral of Chartres, revealing how these incomparable architectural masterpieces embodied the spiritual and intellectual order of the medieval world.
Download or read book Embellishing the Liturgy written by Alejandro Enrique Planchart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the imposition of Gregorian chant upon most of Europe by the authority of the Carolingian kings and emperors in the eighth and ninth centuries, a large number of repertories arose in connection with the new chant and its liturgy. Of these repertories, the tropes, together with the sequences, represent the main creative activity of European musicians in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries. Because they were not an absolutely official part of the liturgy, as was Gregorian chant, they reflect local traditions, particularly in terms of melody, and more so than the new pieces that were composed at the time. In addition, the earlier layers of tropes represent, in many cases, a survival of the pre local pre Gregorian melodic traditions. This volume provides an introduction to the study of tropes in the form of an extensive anthology of major studies and a comprehensive bibliography and constitutes a classic reference resource for the study of one of the most important musico-liturgical genres of the central middle ages.
Download or read book The Monthly Musical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Harp in the Middle Ages written by Martin van Schaik and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musical Magazine and Musical Courier written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Who s who in Music and Musical Gazetteer written by César Saerchinger and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Editions Historical Series Sets Monuments of Music written by George Robert Hill and published by Berkeley, Calif. : Fallen Leaf Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inventories over 8,000 historically important collected editions of music. It seeks exhaustive coverage for numbered monumental sets and composers' collected editions, and gives complete listings for many musicologically significant publishers' series and anthologies."--Jacket.
Download or read book Wessel Gansfort 1419 1489 and Northern Humanism written by Fokke Akkerman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1993 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These nineteen original studies deal with Wessel Gansfort (1419-1489), the Modern Devotion and its influence, subjects and personalities of early humanism and the Reformation in the northern Netherlands and Germany. Topics include, a.o. Regnerus Praedinius, Rodolphus Agricola, Hardenberg, Molanus and Ubbo Emmius.
Download or read book Journal of the American Musicological Society written by American Musicological Society and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical organ collection written by William Crane Carl and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annotations written by Indiana University, Bloomington. Music Library and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
