Music
Musical Notation in the West James Grier | University of Western Ontario
Over the last millennium, Musical notation has become a powerful system of symbolic, non-verbal communication among Musicians that permits the translation of Musical events into visual symbols. This book traces the historical development of the system in the western world, from its origins in the Carolingian Empire to the present. • Traces the historical development of individual features of Musical notation as well as addressing thematic elements for a broad view of its progression • Discusses the practical implications of historical developments in Musical notation to assess how Musicians have adapted aspects of notation for everyday use • Investigates the topic of Musical as opposed to notational innovation comparing instances where Musical developments stimulated notational attributes, or notational innovations made practicable advances in Musical style
Cambridge Introductions to Music 284pp 2. 2021 9780521898164 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 2. 2021 9780521726429 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781139034821
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Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy Memory, Performance, and Oral Poetry Blake Wilson | Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
Vernacular poetry in Renaissance Italy was typically created and disseminated by improvising singer-poets. This is the first comprehensive study of cantare ad lyram (singing to the lyre), the dominant form of solo singing in Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century, and of the related oral practices of memory and improvisation. • Expands traditional views of Renaissance Musical and literary culture by highlighting the synergy between writing and orality • Proposes a new view of Italian Renaissance Musical and literary culture in which oral practices are detailed and presented as having inherent qualities • Brings together a wealth of documents and secondary sources unfamiliar to most scholars of Italian Renaissance culture
485pp 11 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781108738415 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 11. 2019 9781108488075 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108768887
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The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603) Owen Rees | University of Oxford
A significant addition to the scholarship available in English on Victoria and his Music, this study encompasses the genesis, style, and impact of the six-voice Requiem. It will be of interest to students and scholars studying the Renaissance and sacred and courtly rituals in the early-modern period more generally, as well as enquiring listeners. • The first detailed study of this well-loved work, exploring its genesis and impact, and placing it in the context of international repertories of Requiem Masses of the period • Presents a detailed picture of the role of Music in Habsburg funeral rites in the early-modern period and allows for an interdisciplinary appreciation of these rituals • Includes online access to a new authoritative edition of the Requiem (1603)
Music in Context 276pp 7 b/w illus. 2 tables 10 Music examples 9. 2021 9781107676213 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 3. 2019 9781107054424 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781107294301
Music (general) A Semiotic Approach to Open Notations Ambiguity as Opportunity Tristan McKay
This Element considers intersections of ambiguity, authority, and identity in works with open notations, where performers play a radical and active role as co-creators. Tristan McKay develops a semiotic approach to open notation analysis and demonstrates it with in-depth analyses of works by Earle Brown, Will Redman, and Leah Asher.
Elements in Music since 1945 75pp 4. 2021 9781108813327 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108884389
Baroque Music in Post-War Cinema Performance Practice and Musical Style Donald Greig | University of Nottingham
This Element gives a wide perspective of preexisting Music in narrative cinema, placing baroque Music in the context of its reception to explore its mobilisation in post-war cinema. Analyses of various films raise issues of baroque style and form to question why Eighteenth-century Music remains an exception to dominant film-Music discourses.
Elements in Music since 1945 75pp 3. 2021 9781108827867 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108900614
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