Author: Timothy J. Duhr
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ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This essay examines shifts of meter in organ music from the first part of the seventeenth century in France and Italy, and how tempo relates to these shifts. It focuses on texts and music written by Jehan Titelouze (1563-1633), Marin Mersenne (1588-1648), François Roberday (1624-1680), Louis Couperin (1626-1661), Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (1632-1714), Girolamo Diruta (1554-1610), Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612), Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634), and Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643). The study reveals three distinct interpretive solutions to shifts in meter that were in practice at the time. The first is strictly “rational” and involves exact proportions, either based on a steady tactus, as had been the case in the Renaissance, or on faster note values. The second uses theoretically exact proportions, but involves slight modifications of tempi in actual performance, especially when moving from to . The last is “non-rational” and is based on tempi chosen by the performer or indicated with words by the composer, such as Adagio, Allegro, and Presto. The “non-rational” practice tended to be favored in Italy, while the other two were preferred in France. The study leads modern organists to interpretive solutions that can help them play music from this transitional period in a convincing and informed manner.
Tempo and Meter in Selected French and Italian Organ Works (1600-1670)
Author: Timothy J. Duhr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This essay examines shifts of meter in organ music from the first part of the seventeenth century in France and Italy, and how tempo relates to these shifts. It focuses on texts and music written by Jehan Titelouze (1563-1633), Marin Mersenne (1588-1648), François Roberday (1624-1680), Louis Couperin (1626-1661), Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (1632-1714), Girolamo Diruta (1554-1610), Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612), Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634), and Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643). The study reveals three distinct interpretive solutions to shifts in meter that were in practice at the time. The first is strictly “rational” and involves exact proportions, either based on a steady tactus, as had been the case in the Renaissance, or on faster note values. The second uses theoretically exact proportions, but involves slight modifications of tempi in actual performance, especially when moving from to . The last is “non-rational” and is based on tempi chosen by the performer or indicated with words by the composer, such as Adagio, Allegro, and Presto. The “non-rational” practice tended to be favored in Italy, while the other two were preferred in France. The study leads modern organists to interpretive solutions that can help them play music from this transitional period in a convincing and informed manner.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This essay examines shifts of meter in organ music from the first part of the seventeenth century in France and Italy, and how tempo relates to these shifts. It focuses on texts and music written by Jehan Titelouze (1563-1633), Marin Mersenne (1588-1648), François Roberday (1624-1680), Louis Couperin (1626-1661), Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (1632-1714), Girolamo Diruta (1554-1610), Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612), Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634), and Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643). The study reveals three distinct interpretive solutions to shifts in meter that were in practice at the time. The first is strictly “rational” and involves exact proportions, either based on a steady tactus, as had been the case in the Renaissance, or on faster note values. The second uses theoretically exact proportions, but involves slight modifications of tempi in actual performance, especially when moving from to . The last is “non-rational” and is based on tempi chosen by the performer or indicated with words by the composer, such as Adagio, Allegro, and Presto. The “non-rational” practice tended to be favored in Italy, while the other two were preferred in France. The study leads modern organists to interpretive solutions that can help them play music from this transitional period in a convincing and informed manner.
Change of Meter and Italian Time Words in the Organ Works of Dietrich Buxtehude
Author: Don Cook
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Category : Musical meter and rhythm
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musical meter and rhythm
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Rhythmic Inequality and Tempo in French Music Between 1650 and 1740
Author: Judith Eleanor Carls Caswell
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Rhythm, Metre and Tempo in Early Music
Author: Jan Biezen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789079700479
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 250
Book Description
In this volume Jan van Biezen brings together 12 articles he published between 1959 and 2007 on aspects of tempo and rhythm, especially in Byzantine and Latin hymns, hymns of the Reformation, 15th century songs in 'stroke notation' and in the organ works of Bach. His most important discovery was that the Byzantine kanons and stichera in principle had a binary meter. that fact had hitherto been obscured by an incorrect interpretation of the rhythm of the various neums by leading byzantinologists. The rediscovery of the original rhythm and meter of Byzantine music and Gregorian Chant is not only a matter of pure scholarship. The expressiveness, the sense and the beauty of these hymns is optimally revealed only when one returns to the original form of the melodies and to see this achieved in practice. The original articles in Dutch, German or English are reproduced here each one preceded by a summary in English. As a good teacher Jan van Biezen exemplifies his ideas widely in musical notation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789079700479
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 250
Book Description
In this volume Jan van Biezen brings together 12 articles he published between 1959 and 2007 on aspects of tempo and rhythm, especially in Byzantine and Latin hymns, hymns of the Reformation, 15th century songs in 'stroke notation' and in the organ works of Bach. His most important discovery was that the Byzantine kanons and stichera in principle had a binary meter. that fact had hitherto been obscured by an incorrect interpretation of the rhythm of the various neums by leading byzantinologists. The rediscovery of the original rhythm and meter of Byzantine music and Gregorian Chant is not only a matter of pure scholarship. The expressiveness, the sense and the beauty of these hymns is optimally revealed only when one returns to the original form of the melodies and to see this achieved in practice. The original articles in Dutch, German or English are reproduced here each one preceded by a summary in English. As a good teacher Jan van Biezen exemplifies his ideas widely in musical notation.
The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord
Author: Mark Kroll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107156076
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107156076
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.
Five Lives in Music
Author: Cecelia Hopkins Porter
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252037014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A century later, Josephine Lang, a prodigiously talented pianist and dedicated composer, participated at various times in the German Romantic world of lieder through her important arts salon. Lastly, the twentieth century brought forth two exceptional women: Baroness Maria Bach, a composer and pianist of twentieth-century Vienna's upper bourgeoisie and its brilliant musical milieu in the era of Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, and Erich Korngold; and Ann Schein, a brilliant and dauntless American piano prodigy whose career, ongoing today though only partially recognized, led her to study with the legendary virtuosos Arthur Rubinstein and Myra Hess.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252037014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A century later, Josephine Lang, a prodigiously talented pianist and dedicated composer, participated at various times in the German Romantic world of lieder through her important arts salon. Lastly, the twentieth century brought forth two exceptional women: Baroness Maria Bach, a composer and pianist of twentieth-century Vienna's upper bourgeoisie and its brilliant musical milieu in the era of Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, and Erich Korngold; and Ann Schein, a brilliant and dauntless American piano prodigy whose career, ongoing today though only partially recognized, led her to study with the legendary virtuosos Arthur Rubinstein and Myra Hess.
A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music
Author: Stewart Carter
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253005280
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253005280
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance.
On Bach's Rhythm and Tempo
Author: Ido Abravaya
Publisher: Ido Abravaya
ISBN:
Category : Musical meter and rhythm
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: Ido Abravaya
ISBN:
Category : Musical meter and rhythm
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Polyphonic Mass in France, 1600-1780
Author: Jean-Paul Montagnier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110717774X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The first ever book-length study of the a cappella masses which appeared in France in choirbook layout during the baroque era. After tracing the publishing history of this distinctive but little-known repertoire, the author places the works in their social, liturgical and musical context.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110717774X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The first ever book-length study of the a cappella masses which appeared in France in choirbook layout during the baroque era. After tracing the publishing history of this distinctive but little-known repertoire, the author places the works in their social, liturgical and musical context.
A History of Western Music
Author: D. J. Grout
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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