Citation and authority in medieval and Renaissance musical culture
Subtitle: learning from the learned
By: edited by Suzannah Clark and Elizabeth Eva Leach.
Contributors: Clark, Suzannah, 1969-; Leach, Elizabeth Eva.
Series: Studies in medieval and Renaissance music,; 4
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Music -- Europe -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism.; Music -- Europe -- 15th century -- History and criticism.; Music -- Europe -- 16th century -- History and criticism.; Quotation in music.; Symbolism in music.; Composition (Music); Allusions.
Description: "Essays examining how medieval and Renaissance composers responded to the tradition in which they worked through a process of citation of and commentary on earlier authors"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The tradition of music theory. 'Naturalis Concordia vocum cum planetis' : conceptualizing the Harmony of the spheres in the early middle ages / Susan Rankin, University of Cambridge ; 'Auctoritas cereum habet nasum' : Boethius, Aristotle, and the Music of the spheres in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries / Gilles Rico, University of Oxford ; Types and transmission of musical examples in Franco's Ars cantus mensurabilis musicae / Christian Thomas Leitmeir, Warburg Institute ; Ciconia's citations in Nova musica : new sources as biography / Barbara Haggh, University of Maryland; title: Vitry and Machaut. Fauvel goes to school / Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Oxford University Press ; Auctoritas and the motets of Philippe de Vitry ; Andrew Wathey, Royal Holloway University of London ; Fire, desire, duration, death : Machaut's motet 10 / Kevin Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania ; Machaut reading Machaut : self-borrowing and reinterpretation in motets 8 and 21 / Alice V. Clark, Loyola University New Orleans ; Declamatory dissonance in Machaut / Lawrence M. Earp, University of Wisconsin at Madison ; 'Qui bien aimme a tart oublie' : Machaut's Lay de plour in context / Virginia Newes; title: Influence, models, and intertextuality. 'Imitatio', 'intertextuality', and early music / John Milsom ; Apollinis eclipsatur : foundation of the Collegium musicorum / David Howlett, Bodleian Library, Oxford ; De plus en plus : numbers, Binchois and Ockeghem / Reinhard Strohm, University of Oxford ; An English adoption of the Burgundian chanson / Theodor Dumitrescu, University of Oxford ; Learning to compose in the 1540s : Gioseffo Zarlino's si bona suscepimus / Cristle Collins Judd, University of Pennsylvania ; The eloquence of silence : tacet inscriptions in the Alamire manuscripts / Bonnie J. Blackburn, University of Oxford.