Renaissance Music

Kenneth Kreitner

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780754629634
• eBook ISBN: 9781351551465
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

We know what, say, a Josquin mass looks like but what did it sound like? This is a much more complex and difficult question than it may seem. Kenneth Kreitner has assembled twenty articles, published between 1946 and 2009, by scholars exploring the performance of music from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The collection includes works by David Fallows, Howard Mayer Brown, Christopher Page, Margaret Bent, and others covering the voices-and-instruments debate of the 1980s, the performance of sixteenth-century sacred and secular music, the role of instrumental ensembles, and problems of pitch standards and musica ficta. Together the papers form not just a comprehensive introduction to the issues of renaissance performance practice, but a compendium of clear thinking and elegant writing about a perpetually intriguing period of music history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Series Preface
• Introduction
• PART I METHOD
• PART II SONGS
• PART III SACRED MUSIC
• PART IV INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
• PART V NOTATION
• PART VI PERSPECTIVE
• Series Bibliography
• Name Index