Le Belle Contrade
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Le Belle Contrade
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Author : Piero Camporesi
language : it
Publisher: Il Saggiatore
Release Date : 2016-10-20
Le Belle Contrade written by Piero Camporesi and has been published by Il Saggiatore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with History categories.
La meraviglia per la bellezza di un panorama è impensabile per gli uomini del Quattro e Cinquecento: il loro occhio coglie più la concretezza ambientale e la realtà della geografia umana che l’incanto estetico. È un’Italia, la loro, di cose e di genti, di mestieri e di antimestieri, di affari e di malaffari, una lunga sfilata di oggetti, manufatti, prodotti, attività, messa a fuoco e identificata non dal nobile senso della vista ma da quelli più popolari del tatto, del gusto, dell’olfatto. L’acquisizione culturale del paesaggio nasce in seguito, lentamente e faticosamente, e così la contemplazione disinteressata per gli ineffabili piaceri dello spirito, giustificate o indebite rêveries da consumare in morbidi circuiti suggestivi, perfino momenti di ascesi e alta meditazione religiosa.Piero Camporesi, servendosi di una ricca messe di fonti letterarie tardomedievali, umanistiche e rinascimentali, e con la consueta inventività di scrittura, racconta come nasce l’attenzione per l’ambiente e come cambia la percezione del paesaggio in età premoderna. Il mare, da superba e minacciosa distesa, si trasforma in amena e talvolta sensuale località per la villeggiatura; la promozione borghese della montagna – coadiuvata dall’estetica del sublime – fa di quell’aspra verticalità un requisito fondamentale per l’elevazione dello spirito e per l’esame della fragilità umana. Se un tempo chi doveva affrontare la necessaria ma non desiderata avventura di un viaggio entrava nelle chiese dell’alacre e produttiva Milano, di Firenze la bella o della studiosa Bologna per devozione di pellegrino, il turista dell’Otto e Novecento lo fa per vedere la magnificenza delle città italiane: solo allora l’impero dei sensi che ha nell’occhio il suo fondatore può considerarsi creato.Con Le belle contrade, libro arioso e luminoso come una flânerie pomeridiana, il Saggiatore prosegue il progetto di ripubblicazione del corpus delle opere di Camporesi, avviato dal Pane selvaggio, e rende al pubblico un altro grande capitolo della ricostruzione della sensibilità comune nella transizione dall’età premoderna al contemporaneo.
Historical Anthology Of Music Oriental Medieval And Renaissance Music
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Author : Archibald Thompson Davison
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1949
Historical Anthology Of Music Oriental Medieval And Renaissance Music written by Archibald Thompson Davison and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Music categories.
This great anthology of music literature makes available to all music lovers a wonderful storehouse of hitherto inaccessible treasure. The volume includes the development of Oriental, Medieval, and Renaissance music from the beginning to 1600. Its more than 200 representative examples are individually complete compositions, each of sufficient length to illustrate clearly a form or style. The authors provide an explanatory commentary with bibliography, English translations of foreign texts, and an index. The Library Journal says of it, "in short, Volume 1 of the music historian's classic dreams…No competitors on the market. Highly recommended."
Composition Chromaticism And The Developmental Process
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Author : Henry Burnett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Composition Chromaticism And The Developmental Process written by Henry Burnett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Music categories.
Musicology, having been transmitted as a compilation of disparate events and disciplines, has long necessitated a 'magic bullet', a 'unified field theory' so to speak, that can interpret the steady metamorphosis of Western art music from late medieval modality to twentieth-century atonality within a single theoretical construct. Without that magic bullet, discussions of this kind are increasingly complicated and, to make matters worse, the validity of any transformational models and ideas of the natural evolution of styles is questioned and even frowned upon today as epitomizing a grotesque teleological bigotry. Going against current thinking, Henry Burnett and Roy Nitzberg claim that the teleological approach to observing stylistic change is still valid when considered from the purely compositional perspective. The authors challenge the traditional understanding of development, and advance a new theory of eleven-pitch tonality as it relates to the corpus of Western composition. The book plots the evolution of tonality and its bearing on style and the compositional process itself. The theory is not based on the diatonic aspect of the various tonal systems exploited by composers; rather, the theory is chromatically based - the chromatically inflected octave being the source not only of a highly ingenious developmental dialectic, but also encompassing the moment-to-moment progression of the musical narrative itself. Even the most profound teachings of Schenker, and the often startlingly original and worthwhile speculations of Riemann, Tovey, Dahlhaus and others, still provide no theory of development and so are ultimately unable to unite the various tendrils of the compositional organism into a unified whole. Burnett and Nitzberg move beyond existing theory and analysis to base their theory from the standpoint of chromatic 'pitch fields'. These fields are the specific chromatic pitch choices that a composer uses to inform and design a complete composition, utilizing
Le Belle Contrade
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Author : Piero Camporesi
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Le Belle Contrade written by Piero Camporesi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Social Science categories.
Orlando Di Lasso S Imitation Magnificats For Counter Reformation Munich
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Author : David Crook
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Orlando Di Lasso S Imitation Magnificats For Counter Reformation Munich written by David Crook and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Music categories.
After the Mass Ordinary, the Magnificat was the liturgical text most frequently set by Renaissance composers, and Orlando di Lasso's 101 polyphonic settings form the largest and most varied repertory of Magnificats in the history of European music. In the first detailed investigation of this repertory, David Crook focuses on the forty parody or imitation Magnificats, which Lasso based on motets, madrigals, and chansons written by such composers as Josquin and Rore. By examining these Magnificats in their social, historical, and liturgical contexts and in terms of composition theory, Crook opens a new window on the breadth and subtlety of an important composer often harshly judged on his use of preexistent music. Crook places Lasso amidst the Counter-Reformation reforms at the Bavarian court where he composed the Magnificats, and where there emerged a fanatical Marian cult that favored this genre. In a section on compositional procedure, Crook explains that Lasso abandoned the traditional eight psalm-tone melodies in his imitation Magnificats, considers the new ways he found to represent the tones, and describes how Lasso's experimentation reflected the complex relationship between mode and tone in Renaissance theory and practice. Arguing that Lasso's varied uses of preexistent music defy current definitions of parody technique, Crook, in his final chapter, reveals the imitation Magnificats as vastly more imaginative and innovative than previous characterizations suggest. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
From Madrigal To Opera
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Author : Mauro Calcagno
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2012-04-18
From Madrigal To Opera written by Mauro Calcagno and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-18 with Music categories.
This pathbreaking study links two traditionally separate genres as their stars crossed to explore the emergence of multiple selves in early modern Italian culture and society. Mauro Calcagno focuses on the works of Claudio Monteverdi, a master of both genres, to investigate how they reflect changing ideas about performance and role-playing by singers. Calcagno traces the roots of dialogic subjectivity to Petrarch’s love poetry arguing that Petrarchism exerted a powerful influence not only on late Renaissance literature and art, but also on music. Covering more than a century of music and cultural history, the book demonstrates that the birth of opera relied on an important feature of the madrigalian tradition: the role of the composer as a narrative agent enabling performers to become characters and hold a specific point of view.
Modal Subjectivities
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Author : Susan McClary
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2019-10-22
Modal Subjectivities written by Susan McClary and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-22 with Music categories.
In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music a vast range of new signifying practices: musical representations of emotions, desire, gender stereotypes, reason, madness, tensions between mind and body, and much more. In doing so, it not only greatly expanded the expressive agendas of European music but also recorded certain assumptions of the time concerning selfhood, making it an invaluable resource for understanding the history of Western subjectivity. Modal Subjectivities covers the span of the sixteenth-century polyphonic madrigal, from its early manifestations in Philippe Verdelot's settings of Machiavelli in the 1520s through the tortured chromatic experiments of Carlo Gesualdo. Although McClary takes the lyrics into account in shaping her readings, she focuses particularly on the details of the music itself—the principal site of the genre's self-fashionings. In order to work effectively with musical meanings in this pretonal repertory, she also develops an analytical method that allows her to unravel the sophisticated allegorical structures characteristic of the madrigal. This pathbreaking book demonstrates how we might glean insights into a culture on the basis of its nonverbal artistic enterprises.
The Madrigal
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Author : Susan Lewis Hammond
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-08-06
The Madrigal written by Susan Lewis Hammond and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-06 with Art categories.
The Madrigal: A Research and Information Guide is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarship on virtually all aspects of madrigal composition, production, and consumption. It contains 1,237 entries for items in English, French, German, and Italian. Scholars, students, teachers, librarians, and performers now have access to this rich literature in a single volume.
Adrian Willaert And The Theory Of Interval Affect
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Author : Timothy R. McKinney
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-23
Adrian Willaert And The Theory Of Interval Affect written by Timothy R. McKinney and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-23 with Music categories.
In the writings of Nicola Vicentino (1555) and Gioseffo Zarlino (1558) is found, for the first time, a systematic means of explaining music's expressive power based upon the specific melodic and harmonic intervals from which it is constructed. This "theory of interval affect" originates not with these theorists, however, but with their teacher, influential Venetian composer Adrian Willaert (1490-1562). Because Willaert left no theoretical writings of his own, Timothy McKinney uses Willaert's music to reconstruct his innovative theories concerning how music might communicate extramusical ideas. For Willaert, the appellations "major" and "minor" no longer signified merely the larger and smaller of a pair of like-numbered intervals; rather, they became categories of sonic character, the members of which are related by a shared sounding property of "majorness" or "minorness" that could be manipulated for expressive purposes. This book engages with the madrigals of Willaert's landmark Musica nova collection and demonstrates that they articulate a theory of musical affect more complex and forward-looking than recognized currently. The book also traces the origins of one of the most widespread musical associations in Western culture: the notion that major intervals, chords and scales are suitable for the expression of happy affections, and minor for sad ones. McKinney concludes by discussing the influence of Willaert's theory on the madrigals of composers such as Vicentino, Zarlino, Cipriano de Rore, Girolamo Parabosco, Perissone Cambio, Francesco dalla Viola, and Baldassare Donato, and describes the eventual transformation of the theory of interval affect from the Renaissance view based upon individual intervals measured from the bass, to the Baroque view based upon invertible triadic entities.
Critical Musicological Reflections
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Author : Stan Hawkins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Critical Musicological Reflections written by Stan Hawkins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Music categories.
This collection of original essays is in tribute to the work of Derek Scott on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. As one of the leading lights in Critical Musicology, Scott has helped shape the epistemological direction for music research since the late 1980s. There is no doubt that the path taken by the critical musicologist has been a tricky one, leading to new conceptions, interactions, and heated debates during the past two decades. Changes in musicology during the closing decades of the twentieth century prompted the establishment of new sets of theoretical methods that probed at the social and cultural relevance of music, as much as its self-referentiality. All the scholars contributing to this book have played a role in the general paradigmatic shift that ensued in the wake of Kerman's call for change in the 1980s. Setting out to address a range of approaches to theorizing music and promulgating modes of analysis across a wide range of repertories, the essays in this collection can be read as a coming of age of critical musicology through its active dialogue with other disciplines such as sociology, feminism, ethnomusicology, history, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, aesthetics, media studies, film music studies, and gender studies. The volume provides music researchers and graduate students with an up-to-date authoritative reference to all matters dealing with the state of critical musicology today.