Renaissance music
By: edited by Kenneth Kreitner
Series: The library of essays on music performance practice; Library of essays on music performance practice
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780754629634
Subjects: Performance; Performance practice (Music); Music; History
Notes: Essays originally published 1946-2009, principally in the journal Early music.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1, Method. On "instrumental style" in early melody / Lloyd Hibberd. Specific information on the ensembles for composed polyphony, 1400-1474 / David Fallows; title: pt. 2, Songs. Going beyond the limits : experiments with vocalization in the French chanson, 1340-1440 / Christopher Page. Performance practices in the frottola / William F. Prizer. The a cappella heresy in Spain : an inquisition into the performance of the cancionero repertory / Tess Knighton. Tenorlied, Discantlied, polyphonic Lied : voices and instruments in German secular polyphony of the Renaissance / Stephen Keyl. Performance practice in the seconda prattica madrigal / Rinaldo Alessandrini; title: pt. 3, Sacred music. The performing ensembles in Josquin's sacred music / David Fallows. Performance practice in the papal chapel during the 16th century / Richard Sherr. The performance of Palestrina : some questions, but fewer answers / Graham Dixon. The performance of Palestrina : some further questions / Noel O'Regan. What can the organ partitura to Tomás Luis de Victoria's Missae, Magnificat, motecta, psalmi et alia quam plurima of 1600 tell us about performance practice? / Noel O'Regan. Minstrels in Spanish churches, 1400-1600 / Kenneth Kreitner; title: pt. 4, Instrumental music. Voices and instruments : soloists and ensembles in the 15th century / Keith Polk. A cook's tour of Ferrara in 1529 / Howard Mayer Brown. Notes (and transposing notes) on the transverse flute in the early sixteenth century / Howard Mayer Brown; title: pt. 5, Notation. Diatonic ficta / Margaret Bent. "High" clefs in composition and performance / Andrew Johnstone; title: pt. 6, Perspective. Sight-readings : notes on a cappella performance practice / Donald Grieg. For whom do the singers sing? / Bonnie J. Blackburn.