Criticism and Analysis of Early Music
Counterpoint and Compositional Process in the Time of Dufay: Perspectives from German Musicology
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin N. Moll
May 13, 2016
During the 1950s and 1960s, Austro-German scholars made decisive advances in developing concepts to account for harmonic processes in late medieval music. Despite the considerable potential these ideas hold for analysis and criticism of early music, they have hitherto exerted little influence ...
Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta
1st Edition
By Margaret Bent
November 24, 2015
Musica ficta is the practice of sharpening or flattening certain notes to avoid awkward intervals in medieval and Renaissance music. This collection gathers Margaret Bent's influential writings on this controversial subject from the past 30 years, along with an extensive author's introduction ...
Early Musical Borrowing
1st Edition
Edited
By Honey Meconi
November 24, 2015
A timely addition to Routledge's Criticism and Analysis of Early Music series, this collection of essays examines the common compositional practice of borrowing or imitation in fifteenth-and sixteenth-century music, addressing how and why borrowing was used, the significance of borrowing, the ...
Tonal Structures in Early Music
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristle Collins Judd
December 01, 1999
Discussion of tonal structure has been one of the most problematic and controversial aspects of modern study of Medieval and Renaissance polyphony. These new essays written specifically for this volume consider the issue from historical, analytical, theoretical, perceptual and cultural perspectives....