| Contents |
Music in sixteenth-century society. A sixteenth-century attempt at music criticism -- The courtier as musician: Castiglione's view of the science and art of music -- Cosimo Bartoli in music -- Aspects of Renaissance music theory. The frontispiece of Gafori's Practica Musicae (1496) ; False relations and chromaticism in sixteenth-century music ; Zarlino's definition of fugue and imitation ; Lessons in theory from a sixteenth-century composer ; Josquin as interpreted by a mid-sixteenth-century German musician ; On the Italian madrigal. The Note Nere madrigal ; The "Madrigale Arioso": A mid-century development in the cinquecento madrigal ; Giovanthomaso Cimello as madrigalist -- Antonfrancesco Doni: writer, academician, and musician. Notes on the dialogo della musica of Antonfrancesco Doni ; A gift of madrigals to Cosimo I: The Ms. Florence, bibl. naz. centrale, Magl. XIX, 130 ; The libraria of Antonfrancesco Doni -- Renaissance music in nineteenth-century eyes. Berlioz and the "first opera" -- Music of the renaissance as viewed by the romantics. |
| Abstract |
As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, the author has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the past three decades. Collected here for the first time are representative pieces from those years, covering diverse themes of continuing interest to him and his readers: music in Renaissance culture, problems of theory as well as the Italian madrigal in the sixteenth century, the figures of Antonfrancesco Doni and Giovanthomaso Cimello, and the nineteenth century's views of early music. |
| General note | Collection of previously published essays. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 97013032 |
| ISBN | 0691028745 (cloth : alk. paper) |
