1st Edition
Counterpoint and Compositional Process in the Time of Dufay Perspectives from German Musicology
Edited By Kevin N. Moll
Copyright 1997
430 Pages
by
Routledge
430 Pages
by
Routledge
430 Pages
by
Routledge
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During the 1950s and 1960s, Austro-German scholars made decisive advances in developing concepts to account for harmonic processes in late medieval music. Despite the considerable potential these ideas hold for analysis and criticism of early music, they have hitherto exerted little influence outside their countries of origin. In order to render this valuable literature more immediately accessible to English-speaking students and scholars, this book presents translations of twelve seminal articles that originally appeared during the years 1948-1967, along with a comprehensive introductory chapter detailing the evolution of competing theories and terminology.
Toward a Comprehensive View of Compositional Priorities in the Music of Dufay and His Contemporaries, Kevin N. Moll * Dufay-Creator of Fauxbourdon, from Acta Musicologica, Heinrich Besseler * Toward a History of the Genesis of Fauxbourdon, from Acta Musicologica, Rudolf von Ficker * Tonal Harmony and Full Sonority: A Reply to Rudolf von Ficker, from Acta Musicologica, Heinrich Besseler * Harmony in the Cantus-Firmus Compositions of the Fifteenth Century, from Archiv fÿr Musikwissenschaft, Bernhard Meier * The 'Tonal Discant' and 'Free Discant' Techniques of Composition in the Fifteenth Century, from Archiv fÿr Musikwissenschaft, Ernst Apfel * The Cantus-Firmus Question in the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries, from Archiv fÿr Musikwissenschaft, Gÿnther Schmidt * The Origin of True Four-Voice Counterpoint in England, from Archiv fÿr Musikwissenschaft, Ernst ApfelFour-Voice Counterpoint in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, from Archiv fÿr Musikwissenschaft, Ernst Apfel * The Harmonic Structure of Late Medieval Music as a Foundation of Major-Minor Tonality, from Die Musikforschung, Ernst Apfel * Late Medieval Harmonic Structure and Major-Minor Tonality, from Die Musikforschung, Ernst Apfel * Tonality and Harmony in the French Chanson between Machaut and Dufay, from Archiv fÿr Musikwissenschaft, Wolfgang Marggraf * The Effect of Medieval English Polyphony upon the Development of Continental and Cantus-Firmus Techniques and Tonal Structure, from Archiv fÿr Musikwissenschaft, Ernest H. Sanders Index. Appendix. Bibliography
Biography
Kevin N. Moll
"Moll has performed the herculean service of making these [compositional] issues accessible, . . . [and he] deserves our gratitude for a major achievement. This is essential reading and reference material for anyone working on fifteenth-century music. Indeed, subscription to a Garland series that has started so auspiciously may confidently be recommended." -- Margaret Bent, Notes
