The Affinities and Medieval Transposition Dolores Pesce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pesce, Dolores.

Series:

Music--scholarship and performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transposition (Music).

Musical intervals and scales.

Music theory.

Music theory--History--16th century.

Music theory--History--15th century.

Music theory--History--500-1400.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource xiv, 239 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Indiana University Press 1987

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The concept of affinities, or pitch relationships, was fundamental to modal theory in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. For the first time, Delores Pesce brings together theoretical perspectives on this subject from the end of the ninth century to the middle of the sixteenth, spanning the ideas of Hucbald through Guido of Arezzo, Jacques de Liège, Marchetto of Padua, Tinctoris, and Aaron to those of Glareanus. Pesce provides a comprehensive survey of problematic chants and of medieval solutions for them. She also traces the arguments that led to the rejection of the affinities and the acceptance of transposition in the modern sense. Scholars will find this volume invaluable for addressing issues related to modal classification and notational practices, in both chant and polyphony.

Contents:

From Hucbald to Guide : origins of the concept. Hucbald's De harmonica institutione ; Musica enchiriadis and Scolica enchiriadis ; Dialogus de musica ; Berno's Prologus in tonarium ; Micrologus and Epistola by Guido of Arezzo

The eleventh and twelfth-century commentators : transposition and transformation. Liber argumentorum and liber specierum ; Musica by Hermannus Contractus ; Musica by Wilhelm of Hirsau ; De musica by Aribo ; Commentarius anonymus in Micrologum Guidonis Aretini ; The Leipzig treatise ; The Leipzig tonary ; Quaestiones in musica ; Anonymous Wolf ; De musica by John ; The Cistercian treatises

Hexachords : seats of the modes. A treatise by Johannes de Garlandia ; Tractatus de tonis by Petrus de Cruce ; Practica artis musice by Amerus ; Tractatus de musica by Magister Lambertus ; Tractatus de musica by Jerome of Moravia ; Speculum musicae by Jacques de Liege ; Luciarium by Marchetto of Padua ; Quatuor principalia musicae ; Cantuagium by Heinrich Eger von Kalkar ; Coussemaker's Anonymous I

Coniunctae or transposition. The Berkeley manuscript ; Anonymous, Rome, Vatican lat. 5129 ; Anonymous XI ; The Szalkai treatise ; Lectura by Petrus Tallanderius

The rise of octave species theory. Declaratio musicae disciplinae by Ugolino of Orvieto ; Liber de natura et proprietetate tonorum by Johannes Tinctoris ; De preceptis artis musicae by Guilielmus Monachus ; Musices opusculum by Nocolaus Burtius ; Practica musicae by Franchinus Gaffurius ; Opus aureum musicae and Enchiridon musices by Nicolaus Wollick ; Musicae activae micrologus by Andreas Ornithoparchus ; The writings of Pietro Aaron ; The writings of Martin Agricola ; Scintille di musica by Giovanni Maria Langranco ; Recanetum de musica aurea by Stefano Vanneo ; The writings of Henricus Glareanus

Conclusion

Appendix A : Discussion of principal sedes according to Wilhelm

Appendix B : Passages on "transposition by necessity"

Appendix C : Chant citations in Marchetto's discussion of the eight modes

Appendix D : Treatises by Johannes Cochlaeus, Vencelaus Philomathes and Georg Rhau.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

0-253-05573-3

OCLC:

1259584933