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Don Harrán, Word-Tone Relations in Musical Thought: From Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
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MSD 40 Don Harrán, Word-Tone Relations in Musical Thought: From Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century.
1st. ed.
1986
xviii + 517 pp.
Bound copy temporarily out of stock.
Unbound 8.5x11(A4) offprint available.
MSD 40–POD
$74.00
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Contents
FOREWORD
Chapter 1. Word-Tone Relations: An Introduction 1
Music and Language 1
From Imitation to Text Placement 7
Accentuation 10
Word-Tone Relations: Definitions and Delimitations 16
Chapter 2. From Plato to the Church Fathers 22
The Greeks on the Word-Tone Relation 22
The Church Fathers 27
Augustine 30
On the Concepts of Adaptation and Propriety 34
Gregorian Chant 39
A Set of Instructions for Performing Chant 45
Chapter 3. From Guido D'Arezzo to Antonius de Leno 48
Music and Language 48
Rhythmic and Stylistic Distinctions 51
Guido d'Arezzo 54
Other Theorists on the Affinity of Words and Tones 57
Antonius de Leno and the Earliest Writing on Text Placement (c. 1440) 67
Chapter 4. The Impact of Humanism 76
Humanism 76
The Problem of Word-Tone Relations 81
The Humanization of Music 90
Humanism and Renaissance 97
Chapter 5. From Rutgerus to Rossetti 102
The Theory of Accented Singing 102
An Early Singing Manual 108
Rossetti and his Treatise: Preliminary Remarks 110
Two Kinds of Relation between Words and Music 113
Rules for Adapting Notes to Syllables 115
The Requisites of Good Singing 123
Chapter 6. Toward a Codification of Word-Tone Relations: Lanfranco 130
On Lanfranco and his Writings 130
The Scintille di musica as a Practical Manual 133
On the General Relation between Notes and Words 136
The Finer Rules of Word-Tone Coordination 143
Lanfranco's Rules Considered at Large 151
Del Lago and Others on the Word-Tone Relation 156
Chapter 7. The Generation of the 'Fifties: Coclico, Finck, Vicentino 161
Musica poetica 161
Coclico 164
Hermann Finck 172
Vicentino 176
Chapter 8. Zarlino 189
Music and Language 189
On the Proprieties of Text Application 195
Rules for the Alignment of Notes and Syllables 199
Other Rules of Zarlino 209
The Musico perfetto 214
Chapter 9. Stoquerus 218
Stoquerus and his Treatise 218
Music and Language 225
The Rules and their Classification 230
Compulsory Rules both Stated and Suggested 235
The Optional Rules of Older Composers 243
The Optional Rules of the Moderns 250
Chapter 10. Later Theorists from Padovano to Praetorius 259
Padovano 259
Pontio 260
Tigrini 263
Snegasius 266
Calvisius 267
Zacconi 273
Bovicelli 276
Morley 281
Burmeister 284
Cerone 289
Banchieri 297
Magone 299
Praetorius 301
Chapter 11. Word-Tone Relations in Later Criticism 305
Bellermann 306
Quadflieg and his Pioneering Essay 309
A Review of the More Recent Literature 315
Chapter 12. The Special Problem of Word-Tone Relations in Earlier Music: Latter-Day Solutions 325
Vocal or Instrumental Performance 325
Evidence of a Concern with Text Placement in the Practical Sources 330
Rules of Text Placement in Earlier Music 336
The Treatment of the Melisma 344
Toward the Performance of Earlier Music 346
Appendix 360
Bibliography 461
Primary Sources 461
Secondary Literature 472
Index 490
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