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Author : Claude V. Palisca
Release : 1985
Genre : Humanism
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Book Synopsis Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought by : Claude V. Palisca
Download or read book Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought written by Claude V. Palisca. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hyun-Ah Kim
Release : 2016-05-13
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Humanism and the Reform of Sacred Music in Early Modern England by : Hyun-Ah Kim
Download or read book Humanism and the Reform of Sacred Music in Early Modern England written by Hyun-Ah Kim. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Merbecke (c.1505-c.1585) is most famous as the composer of the first musical setting of the English liturgy, The Booke of Common Praier Noted (BCPN), published in 1550. Not only was Merbecke a pioneer in setting English prose to music but also the compiler of the first Concordance of the whole English Bible (1550) and of the first English encyclopaedia of biblical and theological studies, A Booke of Notes and Common Places (1581). By situating Merbecke and his work within a broader intellectual and religio-cultural context of Tudor England, this book challenges the existing studies of Merbecke based on the narrow theological approach to the Reformation. Furthermore, it suggests a re-thinking of the prevailing interpretative framework of Reformation musical history. On the basis of the new contextual study of Merbecke, this book seeks to re-interpret his work, particularly BCPN, in the light of humanist rhetoric. It sees Merbecke as embodying the ideal of the 'Christian-musical orator', demonstrating that BCPN is an Anglican epitome of the Erasmian synthesis of eloquence, theology and music. The book thus depicts Merbecke as a humanist reformer, through re-evaluation of his contributions to the developments of vernacular music and literature in early modern England. As such it will be of interest, not only to church musicians, but also to historians of the Reformation and students of wider Tudor culture.
Author : Claude V. Palisca
Release : 1985
Genre : Humanism
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Book Synopsis Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought by : Claude V. Palisca
Download or read book Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought written by Claude V. Palisca. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noel L. Brann
Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Debate Over the Origin of Genius During the Italian Renaissance by : Noel L. Brann
Download or read book The Debate Over the Origin of Genius During the Italian Renaissance written by Noel L. Brann. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores a prominent Italian Renaissance theme, the origin of genius, revealing how the coalescence of a Platonic theory of divine frenzy and an Aristotelian theory of melancholy genius eventually disintegrated under the force of late Renaissance events.
Author : Ann Elizabeth Moyer
Release : 1992
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Musica Scientia by : Ann Elizabeth Moyer
Download or read book Musica Scientia written by Ann Elizabeth Moyer. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of music and its nature, central to many aspects of Renaissance thought, have nonetheless been difficult to integrate into modern scholarship. In Musica Scientia, Ann E. Moyer asserts that the Renaissance discipline must be understood in the terms of other contemporary fields of knowledge. Moyer begins with a clear and concise historical summary of ancient and medieval musical thought, emphasizing the importance of the Phythagorean teachings about music, transmitted to the medieval world through Boethius's De institutione arithmetica. Describing the factors that, in the late fifteenth century, led scholars and practicing musicians to raise new questions about the discipline and its study, Moyer closely analyzes the writings of the sixteenth-century Italians who debated the nature of music and its relationship to mathematics, the natural sciences, poetry, and rhetoric. Renaissance thinking about music, she shows, wrought a dramatic change in the understanding of the field: scholars came to distinguish between a science of sounding bodies and an art of music, an art to be studied in terms of poetics and the history of taste. Moyer's book offers a new and systematic treatment of a critical but neglected aspect of Renaissance thought. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the classification of knowledge in the Renaissance and of the process by which two competing kinds of analysis--humanistic and mathematical--came to distinguish the modern arts and sciences.
