Jesse Rodin

The Art of Counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin

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Produktbeschreibung

"Revolutionizing our understanding of the musical century spanning Du Fay to Josquin, this book offers both a ground-breaking interpretative framework and a new theory of musical form, enabling scholars, students, and performers to hear, perform, and think about Renaissance music in fresh ways"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 854g
• ISBN-13: 9781107184596
• ISBN-10: 1107184592
• Artikelnr.: 71687186

Autorenporträt

Jesse Rodin is Professor of Music at Stanford University and a Guggenheim Fellow. His publications include several books and many articles on Renaissance music, as well as recordings with his vocal ensemble Cut Circle. He directs the Josquin Research Project, a tool for exploring a large musical corpus, and co-directs the digital project Mapping the Musical Renaissance.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Starting Points: 1. An esthetics of opposition that privileges intensification, deintensification, and dramatic arcs-and what came before and after
2. A discursive vacuum
Part II. Tinctoris's Varietas: 3. Defining terms
4. Varietas as an esthetic paradigm
5. Tinctoris knew the repertoire
6. Pieces exemplifying varietas
Part III. Fundaments of the Art: 7. The parameters
8. Affordances of four- and five-voice texture
9. Sacred genres
10. The formes fixes
Part IV. The Art in Action: 11. Some songs by Du Fay
12. Peaks, valleys, and flow in Ockeghem's sacred music
13. Busnoys, Josquin, and the Hurricane Osanna
14. Seven awesome endings
15. Pater Noster across the esthetic divide
16. The art of counterpoint in performance
Appendices: 1. Tinctoris's rules of counterpoint
2. Rough guide to the late fifteenth-century cyclic mass
Bibliography
Index of Compositions
General Index.