Studies in the Performance of Late Medieval Music

by Edited by Stanley Boorman

• ISBN13: 9780521088312
• ISBN10: 0521088313
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume presents a series of important essays by American and European scholars on some of the problems involved in attempting to perform music of the late Middle ages. The essays are based on papers read at a conference held at the New York University Center for Early Music in 1981 and they concern a varied selection of aspects of the subject; behind many lies an interest in the reopened question of how far instruments had a role in performing secular or sacred music. Among the questions tackled are: the types of harps found in fourteenth-century Italy, and their probable uses; the numbers of singers needed (with their ranges) for fourteenth-century English music; evidence for the use of instruments in the thirteenth century and for wind articulation in the late fourteenth; specific performing ensembles of the fifteenth century, and what they may have sung in a polyphonic Mass.

Table of Contents

Fifteenth-century northern book painting and the a cappella question: an essay in iconographic method

The visualisation of music through pictorial imagery and notation in late mediaeval

The trecento harp

The 'reconstruction' of instrumental music: the interpretation of the earliest practical sources

Mimesis and woodwind articulation in the fourteenth century

Specific information on the ensembles for composed polyphony, 1400-1474

The performing ensemble for English church polyphony, c. 1320-c. 1390

Some evidence for French influence in northern Italy, c. 1400

Parts with words and without words: the evidence for multiple texts in fifteenth-century Masses Alejandro

Fourteenth-century music with texts revealing performance practice

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