| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 308 pages) : illustrations (some color), music |
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AMS studies in music |
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AMS studies in music.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Metaphors of music writing -- Shrinking songs : condensing motet tenors -- Before there was rhythm -- The danger of false exceptionalism -- Signs and metasigns -- The same, but different -- Small songs made big -- The aesthetics of transformation -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: Solomon builds the Temple -- Appendix 2: Notational fixity and visual citation in fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century polyphonic masses |
| Summary |
"The main function of Western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. Composers sometimes asked singers to read the music in unusual ways--backwards, upside-down, or at a reduced speed--to produce sounds whose relationship to the written notes is anything but obvious. This book explores innovations in late-medieval music writing as well as how modern scholarship on notation has informed--sometimes erroneously--ideas about the premodern era. By viewing notation as a complex technology that did more than record sound, the book revolutionizes the way we think about music's literate traditions."--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 12, 2023) |
| Subject |
Musical notation -- History -- To 1500
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Musical notation -- History -- 15th century
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History & Criticism.
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MUSIC.
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Theory.
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Instruction & Study.
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Genres & Styles.
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Musical notation
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197551936 |
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0197551939 |
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9780197551943 |
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0197551947 |
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9780197551929 |
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0197551920 |
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