Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
self-accompanied vocal soloist, if not an improviser. The conclusion is virtually inescapable that frottole ...
the opposite direction was much rarer. The very act of converting the frottola repertory into a written ...
GERMANY: THE TENORLIED The German counterpart to the frottola, as purveyed in the printed songbooks that appear ...
came from the German far east. By the print period Tenorlieder were more often newly composed songs th ...
EX. 17-5 Johannes Brahms, Von edler Art (1864), mm. 1–10 ...
Brahms was a canny arranger and a very knowing one. He was a true connoisseur of old music and a virtuo ...
is the old Guidonian hexachord. And sure enough, Sennfl pitches his entries so that they alternately count off th ...
During the fifteenth century, the word “chanson” connoted an international courtly style, an aristocratic lin ...
The interesting historical question is where this sudden new style could have come from. It did not rise ...
would give the chanson an oral ancestry after all). A third conjecture is that the print market and ...
Antoni: So it seems. It’s up to you then, Rombout!^7 If a piece began with a rest in all parts, the a ...
The four big chansons of 1528 define the Rabelaisian genre. Broad they certainly are, in more ways tha ...
composition in which another refrain about lovers awakening alternates with five different birdsong collages. T ...
LASSO: THE COSMOPOLITE SUPREME Real literary music—indeed a virtual literary revolution in music—is looming ...
to his many publishers. During his lifetime a staggering seventy-nine printed volumes of his music (and only ...
was printed rather late in Lasso’s career, in a 1581 volume of “low style” Italian songs (Libro de villanell ...
usually nonsensical or onomatopoetic; here, it takes the form of the lovesick lansquenet’s feeble attempts to ...
Another jokey piece is the one shown in Ex. 17-12 that begins “Audite nova” (“Hear the news!”) in the solemn m ...
The sibyls, according to one authority, were in antiquity “women who in a state of ecstasy proclaimed coming e ...
In the fifteenth century, the number of sibyls was stabilized at twelve, a number full of Christian resonances ...
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