Fabrice Fitch

Renaissance Polyphony (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This engaging study introduces Renaissance polyphony to a modern audience, balancing the listening experience with what lies beyond the notes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108889407
• Artikelnr.: 70911407

Autorenporträt

Fabrice Fitch is a composer and musicologist specializing in Renaissance polyphony and its performance. His monograph Johannes Ockeghem: Masses and Models remains the only full-length monograph in English on the composer, and he has published widely on Obrecht, Agricola, other composers of that generation, and the Eton Choirbook. His compositions have been performed by leading soloists and chamber ensembles and broadcast internationally. He has been a reviewer with Gramophone for over 25 years.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing Renaissance Polyphony
2. Making Polyphony: Sources and Practice
3. Makers of Polyphony
4. Pitch: An Overview
5. Voice-names, Ranges, and Functions
6. Mensural Notation, Duration, and Meter
7. Genre, Texts, Form
8. 'Cantus magnus': Music for the Mass
9. 'Cantus mediocris': The Motet
10. 'Cantus parvus': Secular Music
11. Scoring, Texture, Scale
12. Understanding Musical Borrowing
13. Canons, Puzzles, Games
14. Performance Practice: A Brief Introduction.