Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
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At this point, after two solo verses and two choral refrains, the instruments interrupt the proceedings for a ...
music has been dramatized. And it has been more thoroughly professionalized than ever before. From now on, ...
Just as in the case of the learned ricercare at mid-century, the entertaining canzona was soon adapted for ...
This was precisely the kind of piece the Council of Trent had tried to ban at an earlier phase of the Coun ...
Venice in 1608 and left an unforgettable account of Vespers at St. Mark’s. EX. 18-16 Tomás Luis de Victoria ...
The most spectacular impression was made not by the singers but by the massed instrumentalists: Sometimes sixteen pl ...
The ones for larger numbers are of course polychoral, deploying massed instruments—the first orchestras, in a sense ...
FIG. 18-6 Venetian musicians in the service of the doge playing “six silver trumpets” in procession. Gabr ...
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Another highly symptomatic piece, and perhaps a more significant one, is the Sonata per tre violini from the coll ...
performance, is by standard modern definition a “baroque” sonata. Its inclusion in a book of canzonas tes ...
CHAPTER 19 Pressure of Radical Humanism THE “REPRESENTATIONAL” STYLE AND THE BASSO CONTINUO; INTERMEDII; FAVOLE IN ...
If we want to keep the emphasis on musical technique, then the obvious name for the period—and perhaps the b ...
Mei did not know what Greek music sounded like, but he knew (or thought he knew) what it did not sound ...
the purely sensuous adornments of counterpoint and return to an art truly founded on the imitation of nature. G ...
The question is, are there any homologies at all between music and nature? There is one, Galilei contended, if ...
survived, however; the kind of music Galilei imagined on the basis of Mei’s research can only be infe ...
idea of the scale on which the musical entertainments were cast. The souvenir book from the 1565 wedding ...
THE “MONODIC REVOLUTION” The arias by Caccini and Peri were the only moves toward “monodic insurgency” (in ...
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