Music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance / Edited by F. W. Sternfeld.

Author/creator Sternfeld, Frederick W.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Praeger, [1973]
Description524 pages : music ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Music--History and criticism. --Medieval, 400-1500.
Music--500-1400. --History and criticism.
Music--History and criticism. --15th century.
Music--History and criticism. --16th century.

SeriesA History of Western music ; v. 1
A History of Western music ; v. 1 UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Ancient Greece. Introduction ; Harmonic science ; Elements of music in the fourth century BC. The notes ; The systems ; The tonoi -- Musical documents. Notation ; Rhythm and metre ; The history of Greek music / Isobel Henderson and David Wulstan -- The early christian period. Gregorian chant ; Religious chant ; Sources ; Theoretical and practical music ; Cantillation ; More elaborate chants ; Origin of the modes. The modes ; The origin of Gregorian melody ; The composition of Gregorian repertoire ; Features of the repertoire ; The character of Gregorian melody ; The history and form of the repertoire -- Liturgyical drama ; Hymns / Solange Corbin -- The eastern church / Dimitrije Stefanovic -- Polyphony and secular monophony: ninth century - c. 1300. The first stages of polyphony ; Organum and discant ; The Notre Dame school. Leonin ; Perotin ; Conductus and double motet ; Gothic concepts -- Secular monophony ; New trends in clausula and motet ; Franconian and Petronian motet / Ernest H. Sanders -- France and Burgundy: 1300-1500. Ars nova ; The mass ; Secular music ; Vitry ; Machaut ; The end of the middle ages ; ufay and his era. His life and times ; Chansons ; Motets ; Masses -- Binchois ; Ockeghem and his time ; Busnois / Nanie Bridgman -- France: 1500-1600. Chansons ; Academie de poesie et de musique ; Ballet comique ; Claude le Jeune ; Mass and motet: 1500-1550 ; Claudin de Sermisy ; The reformation ; Sacred music: 1550-1600 ; Instrumental music / Francois Lesure -- The low countries: 1500-1600. The period of Josquin des Prez ; The period of Clemens non Papa ; The period of Roland de Lassus ; Instrumental music / John Caldwell -- Italy: 1300-1600. The fourteenth century. Dolce stil nuovo and ars nova ; forms and composers ; aspects of the late ars nova -- The fifteenth century. Oltremontani at the Renaissance courts ; Secular songs and sacred contrafacta -- The sixteenth century. Frottola and madrigal ; Marenzio and Monteverdi ; Villanella and balleto ; Sacred polyphony ; Instrumental music / Federico Ghisi -- England: from the beginnings to c. 1540. Early polyphony ; The thirteenth century. Freely composed polyphony ; Cantus firmus -- The fourteenth century ; The 'old hall' manuscript ; The mid-fifteenth century ; The late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries ; The first half of the sixteenth century ; Settings of English texts / Ernest H. Sanders -- England: c. 1540-1610. Latin church music ; English church music ; Songs, madrigals and ayres ; Instrumental music ; Popular music / Joseph Kerman -- Germany: 1300-1600. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; The early sixteenth century ; Isaac and Fulda ; Hofhaimer and Finck ; Latin odes ; The reformation: Luther and Walter ; Rhaw and Senfl ; Ducis, Stoltzer and Hartzer ; Instrumental music ; Netherlanders in Germany ; Roland de Lassus ; Lechner and Eccard ; Meiland and Kerle / Wolfgang Boetticher -- Spain: From the beginnings to c. 1450. Mozarabic chant and the Etymologies of St Isidore of Seville ; Gregorian chant ; The first stages of polyphony ; Secular music ; Instruments / Daniel Devoto -- Spain: c.1450-1600. From c. 1450-c. 1530. Cornago ; Church music ; Secular Music ; Ramos de Pareja -- From c. 1530-c. 1600. Charles V and Philip II ; Morales ; Guerrero ; Victoria ; Some minor church composers ; Secular polyphony ; The vihuelistas ; Keyboard music ; Treatises / Christopher Swain and Jack Sage -- The Slav countries: From the beginnings to 1600. Medieval Russia ; The western Slavs in the middle ages ; Poland in the sixteenth century ; Bohemia in the sixteenth century ; The southern Slavs / Gerald Abraham -- The western hemisphere: From the beginnings to 1600. Mexican instruments ; Polyphony: Mexico and Guatamala ; Andean instruments ; Fernandez Hidalgo ; Perez Materano's Libro de canto ; Brazil / Robert Stevenson.
Bibliography noteDiscography: pages 431-437.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 439-486).
LCCN 73180323
Stock number$20.00

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