Musical Poetics
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Musical Poetics

  1. 370 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Musical Poetics

About this book

Joachim Burmeister's early seventeenth-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque musical practice: it was the first systematically to explore the connection between rhetoric and music that became a cornerstone of Baroque musical thought. But until now neither a reliable modern edition nor a full translation of this seminal work has existed. This much-needed edition by Benito V. Rivera contains a critical transcription of the Latin text and an annotated translation on facing pages.

In a lengthy introduction to the book, Rivera reviews Burmeister's two earlier treatises on musical composition, analyzes Musical Poetics as a whole, and places it within its historical context. An appendix to the edition reproduces the passages of music cited by Burmeister, greatly facilitating the interpretation of Burmeister's explanations of the rhetorical figures. The book will be of interest to music historians and theorists as well as to scholars of rhetoric.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword by the Series Editor
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Musical Sources Cited
  6. MUSICAL POETICS
  7. Dedicatory Letter and Poems from Friends
  8. Musical Poetics
  9. 1 Notation
  10. 2 The Voice Parts
  11. 3 Instruction on Consonant and Dissonant Pitches
  12. 4 Combination of Consonances into a Harmony
  13. 5 Cadences
  14. 6 The Musical Modes
  15. 7 The Transposition of Modes
  16. 8 How to Start Singing a Composition
  17. 9 The Ending of Melodies and Harmonies
  18. 10 The Alignment of the Text
  19. 11 Orthography
  20. 12 Musical Ornaments or Figures
  21. 13 The Genera of Songs or Melody Making
  22. 14 The Types of Polyphony
  23. 15 The Analysis or Arrangement of a Musical Piece
  24. 16 Imitation
  25. Appendix A1 Introductory Letters and Poems in Hypomnematum musicae poeticae
  26. Appendix A2 Introductory Letter and Poems in Musica autoschediastike
  27. Appendix B Musical Examples Cited by Burmeister
  28. Index

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