Ars nova and the Renaissance, 1300-1540 / edited by Dom Anselm Hughes and Gerald Abraham.

Other author Hughes, Anselm, 1889-1974 editor.
Other author Abraham, Gerald, 1904-1988, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 1960.
Descriptionxix, 565 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music ; 26 cm.
Subjects
Music--500-1400. --History and criticism.
Music--15th century. --History and criticism.
Music--16th century. --History and criticism.

SeriesNew Oxford history of music ; v. 3
New Oxford history of music ; v. 3. ^A159522
Contents Ars nova in France / by Gilbert Reaney. The social background ; The notation ; The Roman de Fauvel ; Philippe de Vitry ; The ballade and virelai ; Guillaume de Machaut ; Machaut's motets ; Cyclic masses ; 'Hoquetus David' ; Machaut's secular polyphony ; Machaut's harmony ; Minor composers -- The fourteenth century in Italy / by Leonard Ellinwood. The social background ; Extent of musical culture ; Music in contemporary literature ; Thirteenth-century influence ; Influence of the poets ; Polyphonic beginnings ; Manuscript sources ; The Italian notation ; The forms ; Sacred works ; The composers ; Landini ; Other composers of the later Trecento -- English church music in the fourteenth century / by Frank Ll. Harrison. Changes in liturgical practice ; The new college motets ; The new college conductus ; Parallel movement ; The Hatton manuscript ; The Bury St. Edmunds manuscript ; English descant ; Isorhythm in English music ; The Old Hall manuscript -- Popular and secular in England (to c. 1470) / by Manfred F. Bukofzer. Sacred and secular ; Popular and learned ; Music set to English words ; Motets with English words ; Popular music in fourteenth-century England ; Popular hymns ; The Franciscan friars ; Early carols ; Polyphonic carols: their form and style ; Songs in English manuscripts ; Chansons by English composers ; English songs in continental manuscripts -- The transition on the continent / by Rudolf von Ficker. Introductory ; The transition in France ; Avignon mass settings ; French secular music ; The transition in Italy ; The Reina and Turin codices ; Isorhythmic motets ; The Netherlands and Burgundy ; Sources of mid-fifteenth-century music ; English influences -- English church music of the fifteenth century / by Manfred F. Bukofzer. The English idiom ; The Old Hall manuscript ; Italian influence ; Isorhythmic compositions ; Leonel Power ; Power's first period ; Power's second period ; Descant and fauxbourdon ; Methods of canto fermo treatment ; The Egerton and Pepys manuscripts ; John Dunstable ; Classification of Dunstable's compositions ; Plainsong and declamation ; Dunstable's isorhythmic motets ; Motets with double structure ; Dunstable's contemporaries and followers ; John Plummer ; The mass as a unified whole ; The earliest cyclic masses ; Later cyclic masses -- Dufay and his school / by Charles van den Borren. The significance of Dufay ; The world of music in Dufay's early years ; The new style of fifteenth-century music ; The schools of Liège and Cambrai ; Motets, sacred and secular ; Methods of mass setting ; Dufay's masses ; French and Italian songs ; The use of instruments ; Dufay's style and development ; Gilles Binchois ; Dufay's contemporaries ; Arnold and Hugo de Lantins --
Contents The age of Ockeghem and Josquin / by Nanie Bridgman. Introduction ; The Netherland style ; Musical forms ; The performance of music ; Ockeghem and his church music ; Ockeghem's chansons ; Busnois ; Minor contemporaries ; The period of Josquin des Prez ; Josquin's masses ; Josquin's motets ; Josquin's secular music ; Obrecht ; Alexander Agricola ; Heinrich Isaac ; German composers ; Pierre de la Rue ; Loyset Compère ; Minor composers ; Netherland art in France ; Netherland art in Eastern Europe ; Conclusion -- English polyphony (c. 1470-1540) / by Frank Ll. Harrison. English and continental styles ; Renaissance elements in English music ; Choral foundations ; Liturgical forms ; The Eton choirbook ; The development of the florid style ; Davy's 'passion' ; Antiphons by Fayrfax and Cornysh ; Shorter antiphons ; A ritual antiphon ; The Magnificat ; The York masses ; Festal masses by Fayrfax, Ludford, and Lloyd ; Other festal masses ; Ludford's lady-masses ; Music in Scotland ; John Taverner ; A processional antiphon ; Carols and secular music -- European song (1300-1530) / by Walter Salmen. Introduction ; Popular song ; Popular religious songs ; Narrative songs ; The Minnesang of the later Middle Ages ; The Meistergesang of the middle and upper classes ; Independent song writers ; The Latin lyric ; The art song of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ; Polyphonic song in Spain ; The beginnings of the Protestant hymn -- Secular vocal music in Italy (c. 1400-1530) / by Everett Helm. Introductory ; Popular music and courtly improvisation ; Carnival songs ; Laudi ; The frottola forms ; Development of the frottola ; Relation of text and music ; Musical style ; Conclusions -- The instrumental music of the Middle Ages and early sixteenth century / by Yvonne Rokseth. The twelfth and thirteenth centuries ; Instruments in the Lais and Romances ; Dance forms ; The instrumental motet ; Uses of the viol ; The organ ; Instruments in war and social life ; Fourteenth-century dances ; Instruments in ensemble music ; The earliest keyboard music ; Fifteenth-century practices ; Early German organ tablatures ; Italian lute music ; Italian keyboard music ; Attaingnant's collection for keyboard ; Early Tudor keyboard music ; Music for instruments or voices -- Musical instruments / by Gerald Hayes. Introductory ; Instruments of late classical days ; The early psaltery ; Early organs ; New instruments in the dark ages ; Early craftmanship ; Early bowed instruments ; Trumpets and horns ; Reed-pipes and shawms ; Flutes ; Psaltery and Dulcimer ; Virginals and clavichord ; 'Symphony' and organ ; Mandora and lute ; Citole and gittern ; Bells and drums ; Uncertain names ; Bagpipes ; Rustic instruments ; Marine trumpet ; Medieval usage ; Lines of research.
Abstract This book is an entirely new work, and replaces the Oxford History of Music, which first appeared over fifty years ago. It has been planned as a complete survey of music from the earliest times down to the present day, including not only the achievements of the Western world but also the contributions made by Eastern civilizations and primitive societies. The subject matter in Volume Three stretches from the introduction of the Ars Nova at the beginning of the fourteenth century to the full flood of renaissance music in the mid-sixteenth century. For the first time there emerge named composers with an undisputed corpus of surviving works: Machaut, Landini, Dunstable, Dufay, Ockeghem, Josquin, and many others of lesser fame. Polyphony grows steadily more mature and organic, and keyboard music begins to appear in recognizably distinct forms. Many of the works composed during this period are still regularly performed, and apart from its value to specialists the volume should provide interesting and illuminating reading for all who take pleasure in the music of an age remarkable not only for promise but also for achievement.
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Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 503-532) and index.

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