Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music
Title | Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music PDF eBook |
Author | Tess Knighton |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 452 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520210813 |
With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of music and culture in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to 1600. Fifty essays comment on the social, historical, theoretical, and performance contexts of the music and musicians of the period to offer fresh perspectives on musical styles, research sources, and performance practices of the medieval and Renaissance periods.
Studies in Medieval & Renaissance Music
Title | Studies in Medieval & Renaissance Music PDF eBook |
Author | Manfred F. Bukofzer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1950 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Title | Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature PDF eBook |
Author | C. S. Lewis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 213 |
Release | 2013-11-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107658926 |
An invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature.
Studies in Medieval & Renaissance Music
Title | Studies in Medieval & Renaissance Music PDF eBook |
Author | Manfred F. Bukofzer |
Publisher | W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 1950 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Manfred F. Bukofzer was born in Germany in 1910. He studied at the Conservatory in Frankfurt, and also at the University of Heidelberg, Berlin, and Basel, obtaining his doctorate in music in 1936. He came to America in 1939 and shortly after joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he became head of the Music Department only a year before his death from leukemia in 1955.
A Medieval Songbook
Title | A Medieval Songbook PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Eva Leach |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1783276525 |
Detailed exploration of an enigmatic manuscript containing the texts to hundreds of songs, but no musical notation. The medieval songbook known variously as trouvère manuscript C or the "Bern Chansonnier" (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 389) is one of the most important witnesses to musical life in thirteenth-century France. Almost certainly copied in Metz, it provides the texts to over five hundred Old French songs, and is a unique insight into cultures of song-making and copying on the linguistic and political borders between French and German-speaking lands in the Middle Ages. Notably, the names of trouvères, including several female poet-musicians, are found in its margins, names which would be unknown today without this evidence. However, the manuscript has received relatively little scholarly attention, partly because the songs' musical staves remained empty for reasons now unknown, and partly because of where it was copied. This collection of essays is the first to consider C on its own terms and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including philology, art history, literary studies, and musicology. The contributors explore the process of creating the complex object that is a music manuscript, examining the work of the scribes and artists who worked on C, and questioning how scribes acquired and organised exemplars for copying. The peculiarly Messine flavour of the repertoire and authors is also discussed, with contributors showing that C frames the tradition of Old French song from a unique perspective. As a whole, the volume demonstrates how in this eastern hub of music and poetry, poet-composers, readers, and scribes interacted with the courtly song tradition in fascinating and unusual ways.
Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture
Title | Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Suzannah Clark |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | 286 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781843831662 |
Essays - collected in honour of Margaret Bent - examining how medieval and Renaissance composers responded to the tradition in which they worked through a process of citation of and commentary on earlier authors.
Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Title | Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Butler |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1783273712 |
The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.