The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft
Title | The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft PDF eBook |
Author | Ross W. Duffin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1351542141 |
Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both 1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of the Whole Booke of Psalmes (1621) and his original sacred works. A theorist as well as a composer and editor, Ravenscroft wrote two treatises on music theory: the well-known A Briefe Discourse (1614), and 'A Treatise of Practicall Musicke' (c.1607), which remains in manuscript. This is the first book to bring together both theoretical works by this important Jacobean musician and to provide critical studies and transcriptions of these treatises. A Briefe Discourse furthermore introduces an anthology of music by Ravenscroft, John Bennet, and Ravenscroft's mentor, Edward Pearce, illustrating some of the precepts in the treatise. The critical discussion provided by Duffin will help explain Ravenscroft's complicated consideration of mensuration, in particular.
Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools
Title | Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Eubanks Winkler |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2020-06-04 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1108490867 |
The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.
The Praise of Musicke, 1586
Title | The Praise of Musicke, 1586 PDF eBook |
Author | Hyun-Ah Kim |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2017-11-20 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1317019393 |
This volume provides the first printed critical edition of The Praise of Musicke (1586), keeping the original text intact and accompanied by an analytical commentary. Against the Puritan attacks on liturgical music, The Praise of Musicke, the first apologetic treatise on music in English, epitomizes the Renaissance defence of music in civil and religious life. While existing studies of The Praise of Musicke are limited to the question of authorship, the present volume scrutinizes its musical discourse, which recapitulates major issues in the ancient philosophy and theology of music, considering the contemporary practice of sacred and secular music. Through an interdisciplinary analysis of The Praise of Musicke, combining historical musicology with philosophical theology, this study situates the treatise and its author within the wider historical, intellectual and religious context of musical polemics and apologetics of the English Reformation, thereby appraising its significance in the history of musical theory and literature. The book throws fresh light on this substantial but neglected treatise that presents, with critical insights, the most learned discussion of music from classical antiquity to the Renaissance and Reformation era. In doing so it offers a new interpretation of the treatise, which marks a milestone in the history of musical apologetics.
Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum
Title | Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum. Department of Manuscripts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Manuscripts |
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History of English Music
Title | History of English Music PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Davey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 538 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Music |
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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Title | Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians PDF eBook |
Author | George Grove |
Publisher | |
Pages | 880 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Music |
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Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | English literature |
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