Full Description
This is an excellent reference volume including essays on all aspects of medieval music performance. With forty essays written by experts in the field on everything from repertoire, voices and instruments to basic theory, all aspects of recreation are treated. This guide has already proven indispensable to performers and scholars of medieval music. Chapters on vocal and choral music; various types of ensembles; profiles of specific instruments; instrumentation; performance practice issues; theory; dance; regional profiles of Renaissance music, and guidelines for directors are all treated. It is a comprehensive and authoritative reference by leading performers in the field for a variety of enthusiasts.
Contents
Part 1: Repertoire
I. Sacred
1. Chant
2. Organum
3. Motet & Cantilena
4. Polyphonic Mass Ordinary
II. Non-Liturgical Monophony
5. Introduction
6. Latin
7. Occitan
8. French
9. Iberian
10. Sephardic
11. Italian
12. German
13. English
III. Lyric Forms post 1300
14. French Ars Nova
15. Italian Ars Nova
16. Ars Subtilior
17. Early Du Fay
IV. Drama
18. Litugical
19. Vernacular
Part 2: Voices & Instruments
V. The Voice in the Middle Ages
20. Poetics as Technique
VI. Bowed Strings
21a. Vielle before 1300
21b. Vielle after 1300
22. Rebec
23. Symphonia
VII. Plucked Strings
24a. Harp
24b. Imagining the Early Medieval Harp
24c. Playing the Late Medieval Harp
25. Lute, Gittern, & Citole
VIII.Winds
26. Flutes
27. Reeds & Brass
28. Bagpipe
IX. Keyboard & Related Types
29. Organ
30. String Keyboards
31. Psaltery & Dulcimer
X. Percussion
32. Percussion
XI. Instrumental Usage
33. Untexted Repertoire
34. Improvisation & Accompaniment before 1300
35. Ornamentation & Improvisation after 1300
Part 3: Theory & Practice
XII. Essential Theory for Performers
36. The Gamut, Solmization & Modes
37. Musica ficta
38. Proportion
39. Notation & Editions
40. Tuning
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Index
