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The sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries - the so-called Golden Age of Polyphony - represent a time of great change and development in European music, with the flourishing of Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina, Byrd, Victoria, Monteverdi and Schütz among others. The thirty chapters of this book, contributed by established scholars on subjects within their fields of expertise, deal with polyphonic music - sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental - during this period. The volume offers chronological surveys of national musical cultures (in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany, England, and Spain); genre studies (Mass, motet, madrigal, chanson, instrumental music, opera); and is completed with essays on intellectual and cultural developments and concepts relevant to music (music theory, printing, the Protestant Reformation and the corresponding Catholic movement, humanism, concepts of 'Renaissance' and 'Baroque'). It thus provides a complete overview of the music and its context. Contributors: GARY TOMLINSON, JAMES HAAR, TIM CARTER, GIULIO ONGARO, NOEL O'REGAN, ALLAN ATLAS, ANTHONY CUMMINGS, RICHARD FREEDMAN, JEANICE BROOKS, DAVID TUNLEY, KATE VAN ORDEN, KRISTINE FORNEY, IAIN FENLON, KAROL BERGER, PETER BERGQUIST, DAVID CROOK, ROBIN LEAVER, CRAIG MONSON, TODD BORGERDING, LOUISE K. STEIN, GIUSEPPE GERBINO, ROGER BRAY, JONATHAN WAINWRIGHT, VICTOR COELHO, KEITH POLK
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spine 47mm MW 17 Feb 06 Machaut’s Music: New Interpretations Contributors: ALLAN ATLAS KAROL BERGER PETER BERGQUIST TODD BORGERDING ROGER BRAY JEANICE BROOKS TIM CARTER VICTOR COELHO DAVID CROOK ANTHONY CUMMINGS IAIN FENLON KRISTINE FORNEY RICHARD FREEDMAN GIUSEPPE GERBINO JAMES HAAR ROBIN LEAVER CRAIG MONSON NOEL O’REGAN GIULIO ONGARO KATE VAN ORDEN KEITH POLK LOUISE K. STEIN GARY TOMLINSON DAVID TUNLEY JONATHAN WAINWRIGHT Edited by ELIZABETH EVA LEACH A valuable contribution to Machaut scholarship. MUSIC RESEARCH FORUM Immensely thought-provoking ... should be present on the shelves of any institution teaching and researching the music of the late middle ages. MEDIEVAL REVIEW All the main genres of song - lais, virelais, balades, and rondeaux - together with Machaut’s motets and his famous Mass cycle are considered here from a variety of perspectives, presenting a detailed picture of the current range of interpretative approaches to Machaut’s music, focusing variously on counterpoint, musica ficta, text setting, musico-poetic meanings, citation and intertextuality, tonality, and compositional method. JAMES HAAR (ed.) The sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries – the so-called golden age of polyphony, embodied in the work of Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina, Byrd, Victoria, Monteverdi and Schütz and their contemporaries – represent a time of great change and development in European music. The twenty-six chapters of this book, contributed by established scholars on subjects within their fields of expertise, deal with polyphonic music – sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental – during the period. There are chronological surveys of national musical cultures (covering Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany, England, and Spain); genre studies (mass, motet, madrigal, chanson, instrumental music, opera); and essays on intellectual and cultural developments and concepts relevant to music (music theory, printing, the Protestant Reformation and the corresponding Catholic movement, humanism, concepts of ‘Renaissance’ and ‘Baroque’). The volume thus provides a complete overview of the music and its context. The Church Music of 15th-Century Spain KENNETH KREITNER Kreitner’s book with its characteristic lucidity and engaging style fills a very important space on our bookshelf. It is both scholarly and extremely readable. CHOIR & ORGAN A joy to read. EARLY MUSIC REVIEW Kenneth Kreitner looks at the church music sung by Spaniards in the