Companion to medieval and renaissance music / Edited by Tess Knighton and David Fallows.
| Other author/creator | Knighton, Tess, 1957- |
| Other author/creator | Fallows, David. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | 1st American ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Schirmer Books, ©1992. |
| Description | xx, 428 pages ; 25 cm |
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| Variant title | Companion to medieval & renaissance music |
| Contents | 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 -- 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 Peñalosa / Tess Knighton -- A portrait of Sir Henry Unton / Anthony Rooley -- Women's history and early music / Laura W. Macy -- 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 -- 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 -- Musical design and the rise of the cyclic mass / Gareth Curtis -- Borrowed music : "allez regrets" and the use of pre-existent material / Irena Cholij -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Abstract | This book is a fascinating new survey of the music and culture of Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to 1600. With almost 50 essays on the social, historical, theoretical, and performance contexts of the music and musicians of the period, prepared by 45 contributors, including such internationally known scholars and performers as Reinhold Strohm, Christopher Page, Margaret Bent, Bruno Turner, Thomas Binkley, and Paul Hillier, the Companion offers fresh perspectives on the musical styles, research sources, and performance practices of the medieval and Renaissance eras. The book is divided into six parts. Part I, "The Music of the Past and the Modern Ear," examines the quality of medieval and Renaissance compositions, the English a cappella heresy, medieval recording history, medieval performance practices, and fundamental questions of authenticity. Part II, "Aspects of Music and Society," discusses mainstream and provincial music and the dissemination of ideas in the Middle Ages, the critical role of endowments in the flourishing of sacred polyphony, women's history and early music, and the medieval conception of the "true musician." Part III, "Questions of Form and Style," covers vocal and instrumental genres, and techniques of composition; it includes striking essays on chant, monophonic song, early Western polyphony, mass polyphony, Polyphonic song, keyboard music of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the medieval fiddle, and Renaissance wind ensembles. Part IV, "Using the Evidence," explores medieval music iconography, music in Italian Renaissance painting, archival research, and the challenge of orally transmitted music. Part V, "Pre-Performance Decisions," examines the medieval modal system; the role of the editor; and Renaissance pitch, underlay, and pronunciation. Part VI, "Performance Techniques," discusses such performance problems as vernacular pronunciation, tuning, tempo, reconstructing lost voices, and instrumental accompaniment. The Companion also features an extensive glossary, a chronology, end-of-chapter bibliographies, and 50 illustrations. |
| General note | "First published in Great Britain by The Orion Pub. Group, Ltd." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 92032213 |
| ISBN | 0028712218 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML172 .C65 1992 | ✔ Available | Place Hold | |
| Music | Course Reference | ML172 .C65 1992 | ✔ Available |