Tonus peregrinus : the history of a psalm-tone and its use in polyphonic music / Mattias Lundberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lundberg, Mattias, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tonus peregrinus.

Counterpoint.

Physical Description:

xiv, 323 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2011]

Contents:

Theory, method and conventions : historical background of the tonus peregrinus in monophonic practice

Singled out as a model : the tonus peregrinus in polyphony before c.1500

The role of the tonus peregrinus in the extended modal systems of Glareanus and Zarlino

The rise of an idiom : the use of the tonus peregrinus in connection with the French court liturgies of the sixteenth century

Ambitious obbligo or lack of invention : the tonus peregrinus in Italian-speaking areas during the sixteenth century

Liberty with rigour : the tonus peregrinus in sixteenth-century Iberian music

Total thematicism and multi-texted motets : the tonus peregrinus in sixteenth-century Roman Catholic liturgies of northern and central Europe

"Mit szonderlicher ziemlicher weisz" : the tonus peregrinus in sixteenth-century Lutheranism

In faburden and upon faburden : the tonus peregrinus in sixteenth-century English liturgies

One applied and one discreet method : the tonus peregrinus in Roman Catholicism c.1600-c.1750

A hand-maiden of many different voices : the tonus peregrinus in Lutheranism c.1600-c.1750

The continuing tradition : appearances of the tonus peregrinus in music after c.1750

Concluding observations and annotations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409407867

1409407861

1409430391

9781409430391

OCLC:

696321859