The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance

by Jeppesen, Knud

• ISBN13: 9780486442686
• ISBN10: 0486442683
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-24
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

This classic study remains one of the foremost works on the music of the sixteenth-century composer known as Palestrina. A rigorous and valuable analysis of the composer's handling of rhythm, line, and harmony, it explores his music in terms of the elements that constitute his personal style, isolating unusual vertical lines and establishing common and uncommon interval skips and rhythmic accents. A meticulous exploration of the treatment of dissonance in the composer's works is supplemented by a complete history of the evolving concept and treatment of dissonance before Palestrina that discusses the practices of composers such as Josquin Desprez, Gabrieli, Ockeghem, and Dunstable.

Table of Contents

Preface	1	(7)
Introduction	8	(4)
Foundations of Style.
Temporal Conditions	12	(6)
Rhythm	18	(12)
Modes	30	(8)
Treatment of Words	38	(10)
The Style of Palestrina.
Melody	48	(36)
Harmony	84	(10)
Dissonance	94	(1)
Phases of Dissonance Treatment	94	(1)
Dissonance as Secondary Phenomenon	95	(126)
a. Passing Dissonance	95	(83)
b. Ornamental Dissonance	178	(43)
Dissonance as a Primary Phenomenon	221	(55)
Dissonance as a Means of Poetical Expression	276	(12)
Conclusion	288	(7)
Appendix	295	(7)
Table of References	302