Secular Renaissance Music: Forms and Functions (A Library of Essays on Renaissance Music) - Hardcover

 
9780754629467: Secular Renaissance Music: Forms and Functions (A Library of Essays on Renaissance Music)
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ISBN 10: 0754629465 ISBN 13: 9780754629467
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Secular music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries encompasses an extraordinarily wide range of works and practices: courtly love songs, music for civic festivities, instrumental music, entertainments provided by minstrels, the unwritten traditions of solo singing, and much else. This collection of essays addresses many of these practices, with a focus on polyphonic settings of vernacular texts, examining their historical and stylistic contexts, their transmission in written and printed sources, questions of performance, and composers’ approaches to text setting. Essays have been selected to reflect the wide range of topics that have occupied scholars in recent decades, and taken together, they point to the more general significance of secular music within a broad complex of cultural practices and institutions.

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Sean Gallagher is Visiting Associate Professor of Musicology, Boston University, USA.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0754629465
ISBN 13 
9780754629467
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
688
Editor
Gallagher Sean

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