1st Edition

Composition, Printing and Performance Studies in Renaissance Music

By Bonnie J. Blackburn Copyright 2000
352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

The first articles here focus on Johannes Tinctoris, the prominent late 15th-century music theorist. They deal with the discovery of his lost pedagogical motet, and his treatise on counterpoint; this forms the basis of a wide-ranging investigation of contemporary practices of improvisation and composition (singing super librum and writing res facta), in which the question of ’successive’ and... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Tinctoris and the Art of Composition: A lost guide to Tinctoris's teachings recovered; On compositional process in the fifteenth century; Did Ockeghem listen to Tinctoris?; Petrucci and His Sources: Obrecht's Missa je ne demande and Busnoy's chanson; Lorenzo de' Medici, a lost Isaac manuscript, and the Venetian Ambassador; Petrucci's Venetian editor: Petrus Castellanus and his musical garden; Advice on Performance, ca 1600: Luigi Zenobi and his letter on the perfect musician, with Edward E. Lowinsky; Addenda et Corrigenda; Index.

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Bonnie J. Blackburn