Counterpoint and compositional process in the time of Dufay : perspectives from German musicology / edited and translated by Kevin N. Moll.
| Other author | Moll, Kevin N., editor, translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. |
| Description | xviii, 410 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Criticism and analysis of early music ; volume 2 Garland reference library of the humanities ; volume 1982 Criticism and analysis of early music ; v. 2. ^A410788 Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1982. ^A654521 |
| Contents | Series editor's foreword / Jessie Ann Owens -- Foreword / Theodor Göllner -- General preface -- Editor's introduction : Toward a comprehensive view of compositional priorities in the music of Dufay and his contemporaries / Kevin N. Moll -- Essays. Dufay : creator of Fauxbourdon / Heinrich Besseler (1948) -- Toward a history of the genesis of Fauxbourdon / Rudolf von Ficker (1951) -- Tonal harmony and full sonority : a reply to Rudolf von Ficker / Heinrich Besseler (1952) -- Harmony in the Cantus-Firmus compositions of the fifteenth century / Bernhard Meier (1952) -- The "tonal discant" and "free discant" techniques of composition in the fifteenth century / Ernst Apfel (1955) -- The Cantus-Firmus question in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries / Günther Schmidt (1958) -- The origin of true four-voice counterpoint in England / Ernst Apfel (1960) -- Four-voice counterpoint in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Ernst Apfel (1961) -- The harmonic structure of late medieval music as a foundation of major-minor tonality / Ernst Apfel (1962) -- Late medieval harmonic structure and major-minor tonality / Ernst Apfel (1963) -- Tonality and harmony in the French chanson between Machaut and Dufay / Wolfgang Marggraf (1966) -- The effect of medieval English polyphony upon the development of continental Cantus-Firmus techniques and tonal structure / Ernest H. Sanders (1967) -- Appendix : Glossary and concordance of specialized terms -- Bibliography : List of works cited and supplementary modern editions. |
| Abstract | The purpose of this book is to present, in English translation, a series of important musicological studies that appeared in German or international journals between the years 1948 and 1967. Each of the twelve selections is introduced by a short editor's preface, whose purpose is to place it into the perspective of the whole, as well as to point out any notable idiosyncrasies. --General preface. |
| Abstract | As an introduction for anglophone advanced undergraduate or graduate students studying European polyphony of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for the first time, these translations from academic German of the mid-twentieth century may prove valuable, since they not only document a musicological debate but also "frame a dialectic that is useful for testing out our own hypotheses". Although "the articles comprising this volume can hardly be expected to have remained current in every respect", nearly all of the comments necessary to introduce these texts are ably anticipated by Moll in his editorial preface, and as he says, "many topics discussed in them retain a surprising degree of vitality, and some of their findings have never been superseded". Moll also attests repeatedly to a belief that the literature on this subject, especially the work of Ernst Apfel and to a lesser extent Günther Schmidt, has not been properly appreciated by the Anglo-American academic community, which he presumes to be because of its linguistic inaccessibility. Although the articles translated in this volume were first published between 1948 and 1967, Moll is in most cases right to assert their continuing relevance. --Plainsong & Medieval Music, Volume 8, Issue 2 October 1999, p. 184. |
| General note | Originally published: New York : Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997. |
| General note | Collection of musicological studies translated from the German. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-394) and index. |
| ISBN | 9781138966864 pbk |
| ISBN | 113896686X pbk |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML170 .C75 2016 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |