Companion to Medieval and Renaissance MusicTess Knighton, David Fallows 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. |
Contents
Music examples | 4 |
Illustrations | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 20 |
Reinhard Strohm | 55 |
Funeral Mass with Souls released from Purgatory by the Coëtivy Master | 63 |
Chapter 13 | 80 |
VOCAL | 101 |
Chapter 24 | 107 |
Detail of waisted fiddle illus 5a | 218 |
Surviving instruments | 223 |
archival studies | 234 |
Chapter 35 | 239 |
Toledo Cathedral Obra y Fábrica MS 837 f 1137 | 245 |
Bruno Turner | 249 |
The Guidonian Hand from Amerus Practica artis musice 1271 | 267 |
Johannes Tinctoris Missa sine nomine 1 Kyrie I | 269 |
Chapter 18 | 116 |
century | 127 |
Hopkinson Smith | 135 |
1a Fiddle c 1500 Sardinia Museo Nazionale | 139 |
Crawford Young | 143 |
Chapter 26 | 147 |
Chapter 26 | 152 |
TECHNIQUES OF COMPOSITION | 154 |
Chapter 28 | 166 |
Music and pictures in the Middle Ages | 179 |
Chapter 29 | 181 |
Boethius De arithmetica and De musica twelfth century Canterbury Cam | 187 |
Music in Italian Renaissance painting | 189 |
Kress Collection | 200 |
Lorenzo Costa Concert London National Gallery | 203 |
Echoes of the past in the present | 210 |
Chapter 31 | 212 |
Adrian Willaert Quid non ebrietas | 271 |
Chapter 39 | 279 |
Framing the life of the words | 307 |
tuning in early | 317 |
Chapter 45 | 322 |
Tempo to 1500 | 327 |
Chapter 46 | 332 |
Chapter 48 | 335 |
Tempo and tactus after 1500 | 337 |
Divisions in Renaissance music | 345 |
Perfect instruments | 354 |
Chapter 49 | 356 |
Chronology | 366 |
Glossary | 377 |
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