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Author Moll, Kevin N

Title Counterpoint and Compositional Process in the Time of Dufay : Perspectives from German Musicology
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (430 pages)
Series Criticism and Analysis of Early Music
Criticism and analysis of early music.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; FOREWORD; GENERAL PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Toward a Comprehensive View of Compositional Priorities in the Music of Dufay and his Contemporaries; I. Historiography of Literature to c. 1970; A. Early Studies: c. 1850-1930; B. Sharpening of Focus: c. 1930-1970; II. Evaluation of Concepts and Terminology; A. Roots of the Basic Conceptual Disagreement; B. Gerüstsatz vs. Bourdon-Tiefstimme; C. Contrapuntal Referentiality as a Conceptual Key
D. Ernst Apfel's Basic Contrapuntal TypesE. Referentiality, Musical Texture, and Tonal Coherence; ESSAYS; 1 Dufay-Creator of Fauxbourdon; 2 Toward a History of the Genesis of Fauxbourdon; 3 Tonal Harmony and Full Sonority: A Reply to Rudolf von Ficker; I. Concerning the Essence of Linear Art; II. Concerning the Essence of Tonality; III. What Was ""Bourdon""?; IV. Why ""Fauxbourdon""?; 4 Harmony in the Cantus-Firmus Compositions of the Fifteenth Century; I. The Cadences; A. Leading-Tone Cadence; B. Second Main Form of Cadence; C. The Phrygian (Mi- ) Cadence
D. Building the Superstructure of CadencesE. The Compositional Application; II. The Passages Apart from the Cadences; 5 The ""Tonal Discant"" and ""Free Discant"" Techniques of Composition in the Fifteenth Century; 6 The Cantus-Firmus Question in the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries; 7 The Origin of True Four-Voice Counterpoint in England; 8 Four-Voice Counterpoint in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries; 9 The Harmonic Structure of Late Medieval Music as a Foundation of Major-Minor Tonality; 10 Late Medieval Harmonic Structure and Major-Minor Tonality
11 Tonality and Harmony in the French Chanson between Machaut and DufayI. Guillaume de Machaut; II. French Late Period; III. Pre-Netherlandish Transition Period; IV. Guillaume Dufay; 12 The Effect of Medieval English Polyphony upon the Development of Continental Cantus-Firmus Techniques and Tonal Structure; APPENDIX Glossary and Concordance of Specialized Terms; BIBLIOGRAPHY List of Works Cited and Supplementary Modern Editions; GENERAL INDEX; COPYRIGHT PERMISSION
Summary First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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Subject Dufay, Guillaume, 1397-1474 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Dufay, Guillaume, 1397-1474 fast
Subject Music -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism
Music -- 15th century -- History and criticism
Counterpoint -- History
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
Counterpoint
Music
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135617264
1135617260