| Description |
xviii, 410 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Criticism and analysis of early music ; v. 2
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Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1982
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Criticism and analysis of early music ; v. 2.
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Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1982.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-394) and index. |
| Contents |
Toward a comprehensive view of compositional priorities in the music of Dufay and his contemporaries / Kevin N. Moll -- Dufay : creator of Fauxbourdon / Heinrich Besseler -- Toward a history of the genesis of Fauxbourdon / Rudolf von Ficker -- Tonal harmony and full sonority : a reply to Rudolf von Ficker / Heinrich Besseler -- Harmony in the Cantus-Firmus compositions of the fifteenth century / Bernhard Meier -- The "tonal discant" and "free discant" techniques of composition in the fifteenth century / Ernst Apfel -- The Cantus-Firmus question in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries / Günther Schmidt --The origin of true four-voice counterpoint in England ; Four-voice counterpoint in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; The harmonic structure of late medieval music as a foundation of major-minor tonality ; Late medieval harmonic structure and major-minor tonality / Ernst Apfel -- Tonality and harmony in the French Chanson between Machaut and Dufay Wolfgang Marggraf -- The effect of Medieval English polyphony upon the development of continental Cantus-Firmus techniques and tonal structure / Ernest H. Sanders. |
| Language |
English text. |
| 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 |
Counterpoint -- History.
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Counterpoint. |
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Dufay, Guillaume, 1397-1474 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dufay, Guillaume, 1397-1474. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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History. |
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Dufay, Guillaume, approximately 1400-1474. |
| Chronological Term |
500-1499 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Moll, Kevin N., editor, translator.
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| ISBN |
0815323468 (alkaline paper) |
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9780815323464 (alkaline paper) |
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