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Music in medieval Europe / Jeremy Yudkin.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML171 .Y8 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yudkin, Jeremy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--500-1400--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 513 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Combines a complete history and score anthology for students of medieval music, Music in Medieval Europe combines a cultural history of the Middle Ages and in-depth scholarship on the music and leading composers active during the period. The text includes an integrated anthology of key works with approachable and enlightening explanations, making it easily accessible to both beginning and advanced students. Its chronological organization, broad scope, and detailed music analyses makes Music in Medieval Europe an ideal introductory text. Features, Covers the major composers, musical styles, and works of the medieval period, An in-text anthology features all of the major works, eliminating the need for a separate purchase, A wide variety of source materials, all translated by Jeremy Yudkin, offers fresh interpretations of classic works, Illustrations of source manuscripts and artwork provide added context Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Middle Ages 1
- Life in Medieval Europe 2
- The Medieval Heritage 7
- The Years 400-1000 9
- The Years 1000-1400 10
- The Role of Music 13
- Chapter 2 The Theoretical Tradition of Antiquity 15
- The Ancient World 15
- Music in Antiquity 17
- Boethius 20
- The Seven Liberal Arts 22
- Augustine 23
- Summary 24
- Chapter 3 Chant and Liturgy 26
- The Development of the Christian Church 26
- Literature and Language of the Early Church 27
- Development of the Liturgy 28
- Charlemagne 30
- Music in the Liturgy 32
- Plainchant 34
- Text and Music 34
- Shape and Melodic Style 52
- The Melodic Modes 55
- Summary 63
- Comments on Notation and Performance 63
- Chapter 4 The Mass 68
- Structure of the Mass 68
- The Mass for Pentecost 71
- Fore-Mass 71
- Eucharist 100
- Summary 114
- Chapter 5 The Office 117
- Monasticism in the Middle Ages 117
- Structure of the Office 121
- Matins for the Nativity 123
- Introduction 123
- The Nocturns 135
- Conclusion 166
- Summary 172
- Chapter 6 900-1200: The Latin Tradition 173
- Chant after Charlemagne 173
- Tropes 177
- Prosulas 185
- Sequences 188
- Latin Songs 198
- The Rhymed Office 208
- Latin Drama 208
- Summary 212
- Chapter 7 The Vernacular Tradition: 1000-1300 214
- Southern France 214
- Northern France 229
- Italy 244
- Iberia 247
- England 253
- Germany 254
- Vernacular Drama 262
- Summary 264
- Comments on Notation and Performance 264
- Chapter 8 Early Polyphony 267
- Sources to the Twelfth Century 267
- Twelfth-Century Sources 276
- Aquitainian Polyphony 277
- Codex Calixtinus 280
- Summary 284
- Chapter 9 The New Music of Paris 285
- Paris: Its University and Cathedral 285
- Leoninus 288
- The Musical Style of the Magnus Liber 292
- Conductus 302
- Perotintis and Further Developments in the Thirteenth Century 305
- Clausulae 306
- Tripla and Quadrupla 309
- From Clausula to Motet 314
- The Motet to 1275 320
- Hocket 321
- The Conductus-Motet 323
- The Motet Enté 323
- The Late Thirteenth-Century Motet 333
- English Motets 340
- Summary 347
- Comments on Notation and Performance 347
- Chapter 10 Instrumental Music to 1300 351
- Improvised Music 352
- Instrumental Performance of Vocal Pieces 352
- Dance Music 353
- Instruments 358
- Bowed Instrument 358
- Plucked Instruments 360
- Blown Instruments 362
- Keyboard Instruments 365
- Percussion 367
- Summary 368
- Chapter 11 The Fourteenth Century in France 369
- The Roman de Fauvel 370
- The Isorhythmic Motet 372
- Guillaume de Machaut 384
- The Motets 386
- The Mass 392
- The Secular Songs 397
- Liturgical Polyphony 417
- The Tournai Mass 418
- Summary 424
- Comments on Notation and Performance 425
- Chapter 12 The Fourteenth Century in Italy 427
- The Early Ballata 430
- The Madrigal 432
- The Caccia 435
- The Canonic Madrigal 443
- Francesco Landini 443
- Instrumental Music 451
- Liturgical Polyphony 459
- Summary 463
- Chapter 13 "Perfect Beauty" 465
- The Avignon Style 466
- English Music 481
- Johannes Ciconia 483
- Conclusion 504.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190206123
- 0190206128
- OCLC:
- 965446702
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