Long acknowledged as a leading authority on Italian music of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Claude V. Palisca here collects nineteen essays that provide a corpus of significant research into the music of the Italian Renaissance. The book is in two parts, providing studies on the history of Italian music theory and studies in the history of Italian music. The thread that runs through the book is the interaction between music theory and practice and between the humanist revival of antiquity and modern ideals of expression in the decades around 1600, a time of transition...
Long acknowledged as a leading authority on Italian music of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Claude V. Palisca here collects ninet...
Joachim Burmeister Claude V. Palisca Benito V. Rivera
Joachim Burmeister's early seventeenth-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque musical practice: it was the first systematically to explore the connection between rhetoric and music that became a cornerstone of Baroque musical thought. But until now neither a reliable modern edition nor a full translation of this seminal work has existed. This much-needed edition by Benito V. Rivera contains a critical transcription of the Latin text and an annotated translation on facing pages. In a lengthy introduction to the book,...
Joachim Burmeister's early seventeenth-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque...
Vincenzo Galilei Claude V. Palisca Claude V. Palisca
Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music, published in 1581 or 1582 and now translated into English for the first time, was among the most influential music treatises of his era. Galilei is best known for his rejection of modern polyphonic music in favor of Greek monophonic song. The treatise sheds new light on his importance, both as a musician who advocated a new philosophy of music history and theory based on an objective search for the truth, and as an experimental scientist who was one...
Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music, publ...
Translated by Professors Marco and Palisca in an exemplary manner, Part III concerns] the materials and methods of composition . . . for voices. . . . The] eighty chapters are] arranged in a logical progression of intricacy, beginning with the materials of counterpoint, intervals, rules of consonance and dissonance, and proceeding finally . . . to a discussion of chromaticisim and its faults. Journal of the American Musicological Society"
Translated by Professors Marco and Palisca in an exemplary manner, Part III concerns] the materials and methods of composition . . . for voices. . . ...
- Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholar - Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and Joan Sutherlan - Cellist Yo-Yo M - Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstei - The Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestr - Conductors Pierre Boulez, John Eliot Gardiner, James Levine, and Michael Tilson Thoma - String quartets, such as the Concord String Quartet and the Tokyo String Quarte - Jazz artists Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespi
- Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholar - Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and ...
- Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholar - Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and Joan Sutherlan - Cellist Yo-Yo M - Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstei - The Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestr - Conductors Pierre Boulez, John Eliot Gardiner, James Levine, and Michael Tilson Thoma - String quartets, such as the Concord String Quartet and the Tokyo String Quarte - Jazz artists Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespi
- Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholar - Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and ...
- Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholar - Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and Joan Sutherlan - Cellist Yo-Yo M - Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstei - The Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestr - Conductors Pierre Boulez, John Eliot Gardiner, James Levine, and Michael Tilson Thoma - String quartets, such as the Concord String Quartet and the Tokyo String Quarte - Jazz artists Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespi
- Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholar - Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and ...
