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Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages Tess Knighton

Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages By Tess Knighton

Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages by Tess Knighton


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Essays on important topics in early music.

Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages Summary

Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Christopher Page by Tess Knighton

Essays on important topics in early music. Christopher Page is one of the most influential and distinguished scholars and performers of medieval music. His first book, Voices and Instruments of the Middle Ages (1987), marked the beginning of what might be called the"Page turn" in the study and performance of medieval music. His many subsequent publications, radio broadcasting (notably the series Spirit of the Age) and performances and recordings with his ensemble Gothic Voices changed the perception of and thinking about music from before about 1400 and forged new ways of communicating its essence to scholars as well as its subtle beauty to wider audiences. The essays presented here in his honour reflectthe broad range of subject-matter, from the earliest polyphony to the conductus and motet of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the troubadour and trouvere repertories, song and dance, church music, medieval music theory, improvisation techniques, historiography of medieval music, musical iconography, instrumental music, performance practice and performing, that has characterised Page's major contribution to our knowledge of music of the Middle Ages.

About Tess Knighton

TESS KNIGHTON is an ICREA Research Professor affiliated to the Institucio Mila i Fontanals-CSIC in Barcelona and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. DAVID SKINNER is Fellow and Osborn Director of Music at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and director of the early music ensemble Alamire. DAVID SKINNER is Fellow and Osborn Director of Music at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and director of the early music ensemble Alamire. ELIZABETH EVA LEACH is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her work focuses on song in the medieval West in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. MANUEL PEDRO FERREIRA is Professor of Music at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. TESS KNIGHTON is an ICREA Research Professor affiliated to the Institucio Mila i Fontanals-CSIC in Barcelona and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Tess Knighton and David Skinner The Progeny of Bernart de Ventadorn's Can vei la lauzeta mover - Elizabeth Aubrey Medieval Iberian Song in its Mediterranean Context: From Andalusian muwashshahat to the Cantigas de Santa Maria - Manuel Pedro Ferreira The estampies of Douce 308 - Elizabeth Eva Leach Anonymous IV and the Antiqui - Rob C. Wegman The Development of the Latin Liturgical Psalter in England - John Caldwell Forgotten Levers of Harmony: Where Are the Grammarians' Claviculi? - Crawford Young The Variable-Voice Conductus - Mark Everist Making Sense of Omnis / Habenti: An Ars Nova Motet in England - Lisa Colton Super omnes speciosa: Machaut Reading Vitry - Alice V. Clark 'The spirit moves me to speak of forms changed into new bodies': Anton Webern, Philippe de Vitry, and the Reception of the Ars Nova Motet - Lawrence Earp La belle se siet: Where Dufay and Josquin Meet - David Fallows In Search of Medieval Music in Non-Western Countries - Anna Maria Busse Berger Where Did Our Musical Instruments Come From? - Jeremy Montagu Instrumentalists and Changing Performance Contexts, c. 1500 - Keith Polk Non-mensural Polyphony: Performing Plainsong - Reinhard Strohm 'Ubersingen' and 'Quintieren': Non-Mensural Polyphony in Secular Repertories: Oswald von Wolkenstein and the Monk of Salzburg - Marc Lewon From Page to Sound: Performing the Masses of Walter Frye - Andrew Kirkman

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NPB9781783275564
9781783275564
1783275561
Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Christopher Page by Tess Knighton
New
Hardback
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
2020-10-16
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