Music in the culture of the Renaissance and other essays / Edward E. Lowinsky ; edited and with an introduction by Bonnie J. Blackburn ; with forewords by Howard Mayer Brown and Ellen T. Harris.

Author/creator Lowinsky, Edward E.
Other author Blackburn, Bonnie J., editor, writer of introduction.
Other author Brown, Howard Mayer, writer of foreword.
Other author Harris, Ellen T., writer of foreword.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Description2 volumes (xxi, 993 pages) : illustrations (some color), music ; 31 cm
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Contents Foreword / Howard Mayer Brown -- Foreword / Ellen T. Harris -- Introduction / Bonnie J. Blackburn -- Part I. Music and the history of ideas. Music history and its relation to the history of ideas ; The concept of physical and musical space in the Renaissance (a preliminary sketch) ; Music in the culture of the Renaissance ; Musical genius: evolution and origins of a concept ; Taste, style, and ideology in eighteenth-century music ; Music of the Renaissance as viewed by Renaissance musicians ; The problem of mannerism in music: an attempt at a definition ; Humanism in the music of the Renaissance -- Part II. Musical iconography. The Goddess Fortuna in music, with a special study of Josquin's Fortuna d'un gran tempo ; Matthaeus Greiter's Fortuna: an experiment in chromaticism and in musical iconography ; The music in Carpaccio's "St. Jerome's Study" ; Problems in Adrian Willaert's iconography ; Ockeghem's Canon for Thirty-Six Voices: an essay in musical iconography ; Music in Titian's Bacchanal of the Andrians: origin and history of the Canon per tonos ; Jan van Eyck's Tymotheos: sculptor or musician? With an investigation of the autobiographic strain in French poetry from Rutebeuf to Villon -- Part III. The sixteenth-century motet. Orlando di Lasso's Antwerp Motet Book and its relationship to the contemporary Netherlandish motet ; A newly discovered sixteenth-century motet manuscript at the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome ; A music book for Anne Boleyn -- Part IV. Josquin des Prez. Helmuth Osthoff's Josquin monograph ; Josquin des Prez and Ascanio Sforza ; Ascanio Sforza's life: a key to Josquin's biography and an aid to the chronology of his works ; Ludovico il Moro's visit to the Abbey of Chiaravalle in 1497: a report to Ascanio Sforza -- Part V. Cipriano de Rore as court composer: Ferrara and Munich. Cipriano de Rore's Venus Motet: its poetic and pictorial sources ; Calami sonum ferentes: a new interpretation ; Two motets and two madrigals for the Este family ; Rore's New Year's gift for Albrecht V of Bavaria -- Part VI. Musica ficta. The function of conflicting signatures in early polyphonic music ; Conflicting views on conflicting signatures ; Adrian Willaert's chromatic "Duo" reexamined ; Echoes of Adrian Willaert's chromatic "Duo" in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century compositions ; The musical avant-garde of the Renaissance: or, the peril and profit of foresight ; Secret chromatic art reexamined ; Musica ficta in the Josquin edition -- Part VII. The compositional process. On the use of scores by sixteenth-century musicians ; Early scores in manuscripts ; English organ music of the Renaissance ; A treatise on text underlay by a German disciple of Francisco de Salinas ; Canon technique and simultaneous conception in fifteenth-century music: a comparison of north and south ; On Mozart's rhythm -- Part VIII. Views and reviews. Secret chromatic art in the Netherlands Motet: a reply ; Renaissance writings on music theory ; On the presentation and interpretation of evidence: another review of Costanzo Festa's biography ; Character and purposes of American musicology: a reply to Joseph Kerman.
Abstract The 43 writings gathered finally make available in one place Lowinsky's major essays--including four previously unpublished ones--in two volumes that are lavishly provided with musical examples and illustrations.
Bibliography note"Bibliography of the writings of Edward E. Lowinsky": volume 2, pages 965-969.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 88004869
ISBN0226494780