The Art of Counterpoint from du Fay to Josquin / Jesse Rodin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodin, Jesse, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Music.

Music--16th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 372 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Revolutionizing our understanding of the musical century spanning Du Fay to Josquin, this book offers both a ground-breaking interpretative framework and a new theory of musical form, enabling scholars, students, and performers to hear, perform, and think about Renaissance music in fresh ways"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Part I. Starting Points. An Esthetics of Opposition that Privileges Intensification, Deintensification, and Dramatic Arcs

and What Came Before and After ; A Discursive Vacuum

Part II. Tinctoris's Varietas. Defining Terms. Varietas as an Esthetic Paradigm ; Tinctoris Knew the Repertoire ; Pieces Exemplifying Varietas

Part III. Fundaments of the Art. The Parameters ; Affordances of Four- and Five-Voice Texture ; Sacred Genres ; The Formes Fixes

Part IV. The Art in Action. Some Songs by Du Fay ; Peaks, Valleys, and Flow in Okeghem's Sacred Music ; Busnoys, Josquin, and the Hurricane Osanna ; Seven Awesome Endings ; Pater noster across the Esthetic Divide ; The Art of Counterpoint in Performance

Appendices. 1. Tinctoris's Rules of Counterpoint ; Rough Guide to the Late Fifteenth-Century Cyclic Mass

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Dec 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781316884836

131688483X

9781316886861

1316886867

9781316882191

1316882195