Musical Poetics / Nancy F. Cott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cott, Nancy F., Author.

Contributor:

Rivera, Benito V., 1936-

Series:

Music theory translation series Musical poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music theory--Early works to 1800.

Music theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1987]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Joachim Burmeister's early seventeenth-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque musical practice: it was the first systematically to explore the connection between rhetoric and music that became a cornerstone of Baroque musical thought. But until now neither a reliable modern edition nor a full translation of this seminal work has existed. This much-needed edition by Benito V. Rivera contains a critical transcription of the Latin text and an annotated translation on facing pages.In a lengthy introduction to the book, Rivera reviews Burmeister's two earlier treatises on musical composition, analyzes Musical Poetics as a whole, and places it within its historical context. An appendix to the edition reproduces the passages of music cited by Burmeister, greatly facilitating the interpretation of Burmeister's explanations of the rhetorical figures. The book will be of interest to music historians and theorists as well as to scholars of rhetoric.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword by the Series Editor

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Musical Sources Cited

Dedicatory Letter and Poems from Friends

Musical Poetics

1 Notation

2 The Voice Parts

3 Instruction on Consonant and Dissonant Pitches

4 Combination of Consonances into a Harmony

5 Cadences

6 The Musical Modes

7 The Transposition of Modes

8 How to Start Singing a Composition

9 The Ending of Melodies and Harmonies

10 The Alignment of the Text

11 Orthography

12 Musical Ornaments or Figures

13 The Genera of Songs or Melody Making

14 The Types of Polyphony

15 The Analysis or Arrangement of a Musical Piece

16 Imitation

Appendix A1 Introductory Letters and Poems in Hypomnematum musicae poeticae

Appendix A2 Introductory Letter and Poems in Musica autoschediastike

Appendix B Musical Examples Cited by Burmeister

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300162110

0300162111

OCLC:

1024023170