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Columbia University. Studies in musicology ; no. 6 cn
Columbia University studies in musicology ; no. 6 cn. ^A1230145
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| Contents |
The Netherlands motet on the road to chromaticism. Sharps and flats ; Chromaticism indicated through notation ; Unspecified chromaticism ; The chromatic clausula -- The secret chromatic art. Clemens non Papa. Fremuit spiritu Jesu ; Rex autem David ; Jesus Nazarenus ; Vox in rama ; Job tonso capite ; Qui consolabatur me -- Adrian Willaert. Quid non ebrietas -- Thomas Crecquillon. Domine deus exercituum -- Nicolas Gombert. Suscipe verbum Virgo Maria -- Hubert Waelrant. Afflictus sum ; Et veniat super me misericordia tua ; The motet-cycle on the life of Jesus ; Venit fortior post me ; Recumbentibus undecim discipulis -- Adrianus petit Coclico -- Technique and symbolism of the secret chromatic art. Technique of the secret modulation ; Approach ; Return ; Symmetry ; Double meaning ; Symbolism of the secret modulation ; Secret symbolic connections -- Composers, publishers, and texts in relation to insertion of accidentals and to chromaticism -- Secret chromatic art and its relation to the "Netherlands artifices" -- A German source on the secret chromatic art -- A new approach to musica reservata. Secret chromatic art and musica reservata ; A new document on musica reservata ; The sociological character of musica reservata ; Concerning the performance of the musica reservata ; The chromatic style of musica reservata ; A Netherlands source on the secret chromatic art -- Religious background of the secret chromatic art. The attitude of the church toward chromaticism ; The attitude of the chromaticist toward the church ; The choice of texts in the light of reformed plays, songs, and tracts ; Clemens non Papa's choice of texts ; Waelrant's choice of texts ; Listenius's and Coclico's testimony and the protestant ideal of style ; The religious attitude of the family Schetz ; The religious situation in the city of Antwerp -- The meaning of double meaning in the sixteenth century. Theology ; Social criticism ; Philosophy ; Science ; Art ; Poetry and imaginative literature ; Cryptography ; Double meaning as a view of the world. |
| Abstract |
In 1946, just after emigrating from Nazi Germany via the Netherlands and Cuba to the United States, the author published this book. He posited a system of chromatic modulations through musica ficta in sixteenth-century Netherlandish polyphony circulated by clandestine heretic societies during the period of religious struggle in the Low Countries. According to Lowinsky, in the second half of the century a small contingent of northern musicians with radical Protestant sympathies wrote pieces that appeared on the surface to set texts and use diatonic melodies condoned by the Church. Beneath that compliant surface lurked secret chromaticism and seditious meanings that remained hidden from the Inquisition. |
| General note | "Musical examples": 1 l., 23 plate on 12 l. following page 184. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184). |
| LCCN | a 46001479 |
