| Series |
New Oxford history of music ; v. 3, pt. 1
New Oxford history of music (2nd ed.) ; v. 3, pt. 1. ^A260242
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| Contents |
Muslim and Jewish musical traditions of the middle ages -- Part I. Musical cultures of Muslims in Spain. The emergence of an Andalusian style in music ; Landmarks in al-Tifashi's account ; The Nawba tradition ; Slave singing-girls ; Musical instruments ; The advent of new poetic genes -- Part II. Jewish musical traditions in Spain, Provence, and Southern Italy -- The golden age of Jewish culture ; The Jewish musical tradition ; Synagogue and folk music ; The mystical dimension ; Writings on music ; The role of the Jews in the transmission of knowledge / Amnon Shiloah -- Late medieval plainchant for the divine office. The church institutions ; The nature of the innovations ; General overview ; Carolingian and Romanesque offices, 850-1150 ; Twelfth- and thirteenth-century reforms: the era of new orders and uses: 1100-1250 ; The era of poetry: 1100 to 1580 ; Relics and canonization ; The new feasts ; Models and evolution of the genre ; New compositions: 850-1150 ; The twelfth and thirteenth centuries ; The later rhymed office / Andrew Hughes -- Instrumental music, c. 1300-c.1520. Part I. Instrumentalists. A note on sources ; Status and education ; Guilds and patronage ; European circulation and development of the art -- Part II. Musical sources and performance. Early and monophonic sources of instrumental music ; Tablatures ; Music for instrumental ensembles ; Performance from memory, improvisation and ornamentation -- Part III. Instruments: their groupings and their repertoires. Trumpet bands ; Loud wind bands ; Keyboard instruments ; Soft instruments ; Ensembles of instruments and of voices and instruments / Howard Mayer Brown and Keith Polk -- Dances and dance music, c.1300-c.1530. Secular dance location ; Dances in and around churches ; Dancing as a therapeutic aid ; Dancing in secular and religious dramas ; Solo dances ; Round dances ; Paired dances ; Dancing masters and treatises ; Dance songs ; Dance accompaniments ; Instrumental dance music / Walter Salmen -- Polyphonic music in central Europe, c. 1300-c. 1520. Musical repertories and institutions of the earlier fifteenth century ; The Bohemian cantio ; Oswald von Wolkenstein ; The imperial chapel before 1450 ; Potzlinger's musical collection: a cross-section of European music ; Early fifteenth-century music in Poland ; Mensural polyphony in Bohemia ; Poland after 1450 ; The German-speaking region after 1450 ; The imperial chapel until the death of Mazimilian ; German song from 1440 to 1520 / Tom R. Ward -- Music theory of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Fundamentals ; Mode ; Counterpoint ; Mensuration ; Musica speculativa / Jan Herlinger -- Music theory and musical thinking after 1450. German and central European theory ; Spanish theory ; Bartolome Ramos de Pareja ; John Hothby ; Johannes Tinctoris ; Franchino Gaffurio and musical humanism ; Guilielmus Monachus and 'English counterpoint' ; Pietro Aaron ; Music theory and the arts / Bonnie J. Blackburn -- Music, humanism, and the idea of a 'rebirth' of the arts. The imagery of decline, rebirth, and survival ; Common history and the system of the arts ; Competition and emulation ; The status of music ; Tinctoris ; Martin Le Franc ; Critique ; Testimonia / Reinhard Strohm. |
| Abstract |
The book covers areas missing in other histories of medieval music such as Andalusian slave-girls, Bohemian brotherhoods, Minstrels' guilds, microtones, chant composers, Jewish philosophers, and cemetery dances. It is written by dedicated scholarly researchers each of whom has an established reputation in international musicology. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-443) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001034044 |
| ISBN | 0198162057 |
