Music and performance in the later Middle Ages / Elizabeth Randell Upton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Upton, Elizabeth Randell.

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))

New Middle Ages series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--500-1400--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--15th century--History and criticism.

Performance practice (Music)--History--To 1500.

Performance practice (Music).

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 231 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]

Summary:

Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers, listeners, and scribes in music-making. By treating the musical manuscripts of the Chantilly Codex and the Oxford manuscript, Canonici misc. 213 not just as scores, but as artifacts of material culture, Elizabeth Randell Upton illustrates how it is possible to recover more evidence about the composition, performance, and consumption of music than has previously been realized. Book jacket.

Contents:

History and evidence

The singer's voices

Polyphonic music in performance

The listener's experience

Reframing the sacred/secular divide.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137277701

113727770X

OCLC:

798615497