Heinrich Schenker
Title | Heinrich Schenker PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Pendragon Press |
Pages | 572 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780918728999 |
Originally published in 1966, the Reeseschrift remains one of the most significant collections of musicological writings ever assembled. Its fifty-six essays, written by some of the greatest scholars of our time, range chronologically from antiquity to the 17thcentury and geographically from Byzantium to the British Isles. They deal with questions of history, style, form, texture, notation, and performance practice.
Western Plainchant
Title | Western Plainchant PDF eBook |
Author | David Hiley |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 764 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780198165729 |
Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.
In Defense of Music
Title | In Defense of Music PDF eBook |
Author | Don Harr¾n |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780803223479 |
Harvard Dictionary of Music
Title | Harvard Dictionary of Music PDF eBook |
Author | Willi Apel |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 968 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780674375017 |
Contains nearly 1000 pages of precise and accessible information on all musical subjects.
French Music in the Early Sixteenth Century
Title | French Music in the Early Sixteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Woetmann Christoffersen |
Publisher | Museum Tusculanum Press |
Pages | 920 |
Release | 1994-05 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9788772892429 |
A description, reconstruction and discussion of the repertory of an exceptional musical source, the French manuscript made at Lyons c. 1520-1525 as the private collection of a music copyist. The book contains 280 compositions, sacred and secular, from the period 1450-1524 with Loyset, Compère, Alexander Agricola, Antoine de Févin, Claudin de Sermisy and Clément Janequin as the prominent composers. Besides discussing the many-faceted repertory, the book studies the circulation of music in the early sixteenth century and the relationships between popular songs and courtly chansons and between provincial music and the music of the musical centres. -- The manuscript has been in the Royal Library of Copenhagen since 1921. This is the first comprehensive study of it.
The National union catalog, 1968-1972
Title | The National union catalog, 1968-1972 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 672 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Union catalogs |
ISBN |
Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music
Title | Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music PDF eBook |
Author | Bruno Nettl |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 1991-03-26 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0226574091 |
Non-Aboriginal; based on papers presented at Ideas, Concepts and Personalities in the History of Ethnomusicology conference, Urbana, Illinois, April 1988.