| Description |
1 online resource (513 pages) : illustrations, music |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- List of plates -- List of figures -- List of music examples -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- List of manuscript sigla -- List of printed music -- Introduction -- 1 The culture of the enigmatic from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance -- Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Riddles in the Renaissance -- The discourse on obscurity -- Obscurity in rhetoric -- Causes of obscurity -- 'Allegoria, quae est obscurior': the riddle as trope -- Deliberate obscurity -- Docta obscuritas -- Influences of Augustine -- Positive resonances in the Renaissance -- 2 Devising musical riddles in the Renaissance -- The message of the notation -- Why obscurity? The musical riddle in context -- Techniques of transformation -- Imitation and transposition -- Retrograde and inversion -- Note values -- Substitution -- Rearrangement -- Extraction -- Omission -- Addition -- Enigmatic inscriptions -- Sources, language and form -- Dark hints -- Addressing the performer -- Riddles and their resolutio -- 'Non lo poterno mai cantare': in search of a resolutio -- Wrong solutions -- Multiple solutions -- Written-out solutions -- In search of the riddle -- 3 The reception of the enigmatic in music theory -- Theorists in favour of riddles -- 'Ad ingenia subtilianda et acuenda': Bartolomeus Ramis de Pareia -- 'Regula argutè revelans secreta cantus': Hermann Finck -- 'Para sutillizar el ingenio de los estudiosos': Pietro Cerone -- 'Diventar più segnalato, perfetto, e singolare': Lodovico Zacconi -- Critical voices -- On obscurity, errors and youthful indiscretion -- 'Prout ipse voluerit': Pietro Aaron on the randomness of obscurity and clarity -- Sebald Heyden and the search for clarity. |
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In the aftermath of Heyden: 'na certan rewill may be gevin', or the uniqueness of riddles and the invention of inscriptions -- Ostentatio ingenii: Heinrich Glarean on the 'flaunting of genius' -- The Italian stance: Vicentino, Zarlino, Galilei and Tigrini -- Once more: mensural intricacies -- Towards a philosophical foundation: the hierarchy of the senses -- Riddles and images -- The performer -- Second-guessing: on prophets, astrologists and chimeras -- Conclusions -- 4 Riddles visualised -- Introduction: visual poetry -- visual music -- Geometrical figures: the circle -- Religious symbols: the cross -- Music and nature: the lunar cycle -- Rebus, cryptography and chronogram -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 A brief introduction to mensural notation -- Appendix 2 Catalogue of enigmatic canonic inscriptions -- Index to the catalogue of enigmatic canonic inscriptions -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary literature -- Index of compositions -- General index. |
| Summary |
This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the Renaissance. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- 15th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
15th century |
| Subject |
Music -- 16th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
Renaissance.
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Renaissance. |
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Riddles -- History and criticism.
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Riddles. |
| Chronological Term |
1400-1599 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Blackburn, Bonnie J., author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781107082298 |
| ISBN |
9781139998260 (electronic book) |
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1139998269 (electronic book) |
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9781316319956 (electronic book) |
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1316319954 (electronic book) |
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9781316333334 (electronic book) |
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1316333337 (electronic book) |
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9781316316610 |
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1316316610 |
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9781107442849 |
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1107442842 |
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9781107082298 |
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1107082293 |
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