| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
xx, 428 pages : illustration ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Spine title: Companion to medieval & renaissance music. |
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"First published in Great Britain by the Orion Publishing Group, Ltd."--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The music of the past and the modern ear. -- The good, the bad and the boring / Daniel-Leech Wilkinson -- Value judgments in music of the Renaissance / James Haar -- The English a capella heresy / Christopher Page -- Going down on record / Tess Knighton -- The work is not the performance / Thomas Binkley -- Beyond authenticity / Peter Phillips -- Hard-sell, scholarship and silly titles / Philip Pickett -- -- Aspects of music and society. -- Centre and periphery : mainstream and provincial music / Reinhard Strohm -- The meeting of sacred ritual and secular piety : endowments for music / Barbara Haggh -- Ritual reflections / Keith Falconer -- Musicus and cantor / Christopher Page -- A day in the life of Francisco de Penalosa / Tess Knighton -- A portrait of Sir Henry Unton / Anthony Rooley -- Women's history and early music / Laura W. Macy -- -- Questions of form and style. Genres : Vocal. -- Chant, or the politics of inscription / Katherine Bergeron -- Monophonic song : questions of category / Ardis Butterfield -- Early Western polyphony / Hendrik van der Werf -- The late-medieval motet / Margaret Bent -- Mass polyphony / Philip T. Jackson -- Polyphonic song / David Fallows -- Genre and function : some thoughts on Italian secular vocal music in the sixteenth century / Margaret Mabbett -- -- Questions of form and style. Genres : Instrumental. -- Fourteenth- and fifteenth-century keyboard music / Lewis Jones -- Plucked instruments : silver tones of a golden age / Hopkinson Smith -- The medieval fiddle : reflections of a performer / Randall Cook -- On the trail of ensemble music in the fifteenth century / Crawford Young -- Wind ensembles in the Renaissance / Lorenz Welker -- -- Questions of form and style. Techniques of composition. -- Musical design and the rise of the cyclic mass / Gareth Curtis -- Borrowed music : "allez regrets" and the use of pre-existent material / Irena Cholij -- -- Using the evidence. -- Music and pictures in the Middle Ages / Elizabeth C. Teviotdale -- Music in Italian Renaissance painting / Iain Fenlon -- Echoes of the past in the present / Stevie Wishart -- Surviving instruments / Lewis Jones -- Unwritten and written music / Reinhard Strohm -- Researching the past : archival studies / Frederick Hammond -- A manuscript case-study / Michael Noone -- -- Pre-performance decisions. -- The editor : diplomat or dictator? / Bruno Turner -- Mode / Liane Curtis -- Musica ficta / Rob C. Wegman -- Renaissance pitch / Kenneth Kreitner -- Is underlay necessary? / Honey Meconi -- Restored pronunciation / Alison Wray -- Finding the right context : where to perform early music / Jan Nuchelmans -- -- Performance techniques. -- Framing the life of the words / Paul Hillier -- Reconstructing lost voices / John Potter -- Pythagoras at the forge : tuning in early music / Rogers Covey-Crump -- Tempo to 1500 / Richard Sherr -- Tempo and tactus after 1500 / Ephraim Segerman -- Divisions in Renaissance music / Bernard Thomas -- "Perfect" instruments / Andrew Lawrence-King. |
| Subject |
Music -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
500-1400 |
| Subject |
Music -- 15th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
15th century |
| Subject |
Music -- 16th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Added Author |
Knighton, Tess, 1957-
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Fallows, David.
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| Added Title |
Companion to medieval & renaissance music |
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Medieval & renaissance music |
| ISBN |
0028712218 alkaline paper $50.00 |
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