Music in the French secular theater, 1400-1550 / by Howard Mayer Brown.
| Author/creator |
Brown, Howard Mayer |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1963. |
| Description | x, 338 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | The plays and the players. The chronological limits ; The plays ; The sources of the plays ; Municipal theater ; The church and the theater ; Play-acting societies ; Professional theater -- Music and the players. Musicians and the Mysteres and Miracles ; Musicians in the secular theater -- Chansons in the theater. The kinds of music in the plays ; The role of chansons in the plays ; Performance practice ; The Chanson Rustique ; The music of the theatrical chansons -- Instrumental music and dance music -- Sacred music -- A catalogue of theatrical chansons. |
| Abstract | Mainly for musicians, this book also has a great deal to say to people interested in the theater of the past. As Elizabethan music is part of Shakespearean drama so the chansons, dances, fanfares, and street cries were inseparable from the early French stage. The author shows what pieces would have been chosen for different contexts and how a fanfare, for example, would have sounded; and he finds in the dramatic chansons, the hit tunes of their day, a sequence that differs significantly from that of conventional music history. He begins with an account of plays and performances - an unprecedented correlation of widely dispersed materials. Later he makes a unique study of the whole scope of theatrical chansons: no one before has tried to determine the extent and character of the popular chanson's influence on polyphonic settings. A complete catalogue of songs mentioned in the plays of the period, their various polyphonic settings and how they differ is included. |
| General note | "A catalogue of theatrical chansons" (pages 181-282). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-309) and index. |
| LCCN | 62019214 |
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