The Science and Art of Renaissance Music

by Haar, James

• ISBN13: 9780691028743
• ISBN10: 0691028745
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the past three decades. Collected here for the first time are representative pieces from those years, covering diverse themes of continuing interest to him and his readers: music in Renaissance culture, problems of theory as well as the Italian madrigal in the sixteenth century, the figures of Antonfrancesco Doni and Giovanthomaso Cimello, and the nineteenth century's views of early music. In this collection, the same subject is seen from several angles, and thus gives a rich context for further exploration. Haar was one of the first to recognize the value of cultural study. His work also reminds us that the close study of the music itself is equally important. The articles contained in this book show the author's conviction that a good way to address large problems is to begin by focusing on small ones.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	ix	(4)
EDITOR'S PREFACE	xiii	(2)
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS	xv
MUSIC IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SOCIETY	3	(76)
CHAPTER ONE A Sixteenth-Century Attempt at Music Criticism	3	(17)
CHAPTER TWO The Courtier as Musician: Castiglione's View of the Science and Art of Music	20	(18)
CHAPTER THREE Cosimo Bartoli on Music	38	(41)
ASPECTS OF RENAISSANCE MUSIC THEORY	79	(122)
CHAPTER FOUR The Frontispiece of Gafori's Practica Musicae (1496)	79	(14)
CHAPTER FIVE False Relations and Chromaticism in Sixteenth-Century Music	93	(28)
CHAPTER SIX Zarlino's Definition of Fugue and Imitation	121	(28)
CHAPTER SEVEN Lessons in Theory from a Sixteenth-Century Composer	149	(27)
CHAPTER EIGHT Josquin as Interpreted by a Mid-Sixteenth-Century German Musician	176	(25)
ON THE ITALIAN MADRIGAL	201	(70)
CHAPTER NINE The Note Nere Madrigal	201	(21)
CHAPTER TEN The "Madrigale Arioso": A Mid-Century Development in the Cinquecento Madrigal	222	(17)
CHAPTER ELEVEN Giovanthomaso Cimello as Madrigalist	239	(32)
ANTONFRANCESCO DONI: WRITER, ACADEMICIAN, AND MUSICIAN	271	(82)
CHAPTER TWELVE Notes on the Dialogo della Musica of Antonfrancesco Doni	271	(29)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN A Gift of Madrigals to Cosimo I: The Ms. Florence, Bibl. Naz. Centrale, Magl. XIX, 130	300	(23)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Libraria of Antonfrancesco Doni	323	(30)
RENAISSANCE MUSIC IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EYES	353	(30)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Berlioz and the "First Opera"	353	(13)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Music of the Renaissance as Viewed by the Romantics	366	(17)
INDEX OF NAMES	383