On the Origin and Progress of Musical Arts by John Taverner

ISBN-13: 9781138633698 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 166 str.

Joseph M. Ortiz

Opis

John Taverner’s lectures on music constitute the only extant version of a complete university course in music in early modern England. Originally composed in 1610 in both English and Latin, they were delivered at Gresham College in London between1610 and 1638, and it is likely that Taverner intended at some point to publish the lectures in the form of a music treatise. In this first published edition of Taverner’s musical writings, Joseph M. Ortiz comprehensively introduces, edits and annotates the text of the lectures, and an appendix contains the existing Latin version of Taverner’s text.

O autorze

Joseph M. Ortiz is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he teaches Renaissance and comparative literature. He is the author of Broken Harmony: Shakespeare and the Politics of Music (2011) and the editor of Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism (2013). He has written several articles and chapters on Renaissance literature, Renaissance musical thought, and the reception of classical culture in Renaissance Europe.