Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages

2018 OUP hardcover reprint edition. Unread copy in very good condition. All the chapters include areas of discussion whose coverage in the series hitherto has been either wholly lacking or, at best, marginal: Muslim and Jewish musical traditions of the Middle Ages, late-medieval office chant, medieval dance music, musical instruments in society, music in Central and Eastern Europe, music theory of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, music and early Renaissance humanism. The first chapter and the last three present the conceptualization of music in speculative theory, philosophy, compositional and didactic practice, and musical historiography. Four chapters, and part of the first, illustrate important musical repertories and genres as they were developed within diverse societies. Introduction - Reinhard Strohm I. Muslim and Jewish Musical Traditions of the Middle Ages - Ammon Shiloah Part I: Musical Cultures of Muslims in Spain The Emergence of an Andalusian Style in Music Landmarks in al-Tifashi's Account The Nawba Tradition Slave Singing-Girls Musical Instruments The Advent of New Poetic Genres Part II: Jewish Musical Traditions in Spain, Provence, and Southern Italy The Golden Age of Jewish Culture The Jewish Musical Tradition Synagogue and Folk Music The Mystical Dimension Writings on Music The Role of the Jews in the Transmission of Knowledge II. Late Medieval Plainchant for the Divine Office - Andrew Hughes Introduction The Church Institutions The Nature of the Innovations General Overview Carolingian and Romanesque Offices, 850-1150 Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Reforms: The Era of New Orders and Uses: 1100-1250 The Era of Poetry: 1100 to 1580 Relics and Canonization New Feasts Models and Evolution of the Genre New Compositions: 850-1150 Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Later Rhymed Office Conclusion III. Instrumental Music, c.1300-c.1520 - Howard Mayer Brown and Keith Polk Part I: Instrumentalists A Note on Sources Status and Education Guilds and Patronage European Circulation and Development of the Art Part II: Musical Sources and Performance Early and Monophonic Sources of Instrumental Music Tablatures Music for Instrumental Ensembles Performance from Memory, Improvisation, and Ornamentation Part III: Instruments: Their Groupings and their Repertories Trumpet Bands Loud Wind Bands Keyboard Instruments Soft Instruments Ensembles of Instruments and of Voices and Instruments IV. Dances and Dance Music, c.1300-c.1530 - Walter Salmen Secular Dance Locations Dances in and around Churches Dancing as a Therapeutic Aid Dancing in Secular and Religious Dramas Solo Dances Round Dances Paired Dances Dancing Masters and Treatises Dance Songs Dance Accompaniments Instrumental Dance Music V. Polyphonic Music in Central Europe, c.1300-c.1520 - Tom R. Ward Musical Repertories and Institutions of the Earlier Fifteenth Century The Bohemian Cantio Oswald von Wolkenstein The Imperial Chapel before 1450 Potzlinger's Music Collection: A Cross-section of European Music Early Fifteenth-Century Music in Poland Mensural Polyphony in Bohemia Poland after 1450 The German-Speaking Region after 1450 The Imperial Chapel until the Death of Maximilian German Song from 1440 to 1520 VI. Music Theory of the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries - Jan Herlinger Introduction Fundamentals Mode Counterpoint Mensuration Musica speculativa VII. Music Theory and Musical Thinking after 1450 - Bonnie J. Blackburn Introduction German and Central European Theory Spanish Theory Bartolome Ramos de Pareja John Hothby Johannes Tinctoris Franchino Gaffurio and Musical Humanism Guilielmus Monachus and 'English Counterpoint' Pietro Aaron Music Theory and the Arts VIII. Music, Humanism, and the Idea of a 'Rebirth' of the Arts - Reinhard Strohm Introduction The Imagery of Decline, Rebirth, and Survival Common History and the System of the Arts Competition and Emulation The Status of Music Tinctoris Martin Le Franc Critique Appendix: Testimonia.…