Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

On the basis of all the available evidence—contemporary pictures, literary descriptions of musical performances ...

FIG. 4-7B Page from a mid-twentieth-century fake book, to be compared with Fig. 4-7a. One genre ...

FIG. 4-8 Dances from the Manuscrit du Roi, a huge codex, copied in the mid-thirteenth century, that ...

the German variants, known as Geisslerlieder (from Geißel, German for whip) were written down by clerics who f ...

Minnelieder were songs composed by Minnesinger—singers of Minne, German for courtly love. The earliest Minnesin ...

proverbs. These seem to go back to an indigenous German tradition not directly related to Romance models. ...

POPULARIZATION, THEN AND SINCE The other way in which we know Neidhardt’s songs were popular is that some ...

The original romantic nationalist view of medieval German art music reached its peak in another Wagner opera ...

Heinrich von Meissen (d. 1318), called Frauenlob (Lady’s Praise) because of his many songs in honor of the Virgi ...

Tannhäuser of the song contest at Wartburg. So for Wagner (as earlier, it should be added, for the eighteenth-c ...

When Wagner’s Sachs warns against wälscher Majestät, “foreign domination,” the nation he (that is, Wagn ...

The only thing that separated Adam and Oswald was time. They were not contemporaries at all. Oswald was ...

conditions, or ascribing a value to it on that basis. And yet even this much appeal to “external” facto ...

CHAPTER 5 Polyphony in Practice and Theory EARLY POLYPHONIC PERFORMANCE PRACTICES AND THE TWELFTH-CENTURY BLOSSOM ...

historians, not composers, have created.)^2 Yet even granting all of this, we can still identify the extraord ...

in the Musica enchiriadis itself suffice to prove, these simple devices were actually practiced in a complex sy ...

EX. 5-1B Diapente EX. 5-1C Diatessaron EX. 5-1D Composite To “hear” (that is, aurally conceptualize) strict paral ...

EX. 5-2A Disjunct tetrachord scale from Musica enchiriadis Unlike the octave system, with a scale construc ...

not to ask questions but just to perform the example and learn to imitate its “smoothness of harmony.” This deferra ...

symphonia) and on fashioning a good occursus (a term Guido was in fact the first to use in connection w ...