Studies in the History of Italian Music and Music Theory

by Palisca, Claude V.

• ISBN13: 9780198161677
• ISBN10: 0198161670
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-04-21
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Long acknowledged as a leading authority on Italian music of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Claude V. Palisca here collects nineteen essays that provide a corpus of significant research into the music of the Italian Renaissance. The book is in two parts, providing studies on the history of Italian music theory and studies in the history of Italian music. The thread that runs through the book is the interaction between music theory and practice and between the humanist revival of antiquity and modern ideals of expression in the decades around 1600, a time of transition between the Renaissance and Baroque. A prefactory note accompanies each of the older essays, reviewing recent research on the topic, including the author's and other critic's reactions to the original article. Footnote references have been brought up to date and the text is complemented by over a hundred music examples and a number of illustrations.

Author Biography

Claude V. Palisca is Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music Emeritus, Yale University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Studies in the History of Italian Music Theory
The Revision of Counterpoint and the Embellished Style	p. 3
Vincenzo Galilei's Counterpoint Treatise: A Code for the Seconda pratica	p. 30
The Artusi-Monteverdi Controversy	p. 54
Marco Scacchi's Defence of Modern Music (1649)	p. 88
The Musica of Erasmus of Horitz	p. 146
Boethius in the Renaissance	p. 168
Aristoxenus Redeemed in the Renaissance	p. 189
Scientific Empiricism in Musical Thought	p. 200
Studies in the History of Italian Music
A Clarification of Musica reservata in Jean Taisnier's Astrologiae, 1559	p. 239
Ut oratoria musica: The Rhetorical Basis of Musical Mannerism	p. 282
Towards an intrinsically Musical Definition of Mannerism in the Sixteenth Century	p. 312
Vincenzo Galilei and some Links between 'Pseudo-Monody' and Monody	p. 346
Vincenzo Galilei's Arrangements for Voice and Lute	p. 364
Musical Asides in the Diplomatic Correspondence of Emilio de' Cavalieri	p. 389
The Alterati of Florence, Pioneers in the Theory of Dramatic Music	p. 408
The First Performance of Euridice	p. 432
Peri and the Theory of Recitative	p. 452
G. B. Doni, Musicological Activist, and his Lyra Barberina	p. 467
The Recitative of Lully's Alceste: French Declamation or Italian Melody?	p. 491
Index	p. 509
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