The Art of Counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107184596)

This book transforms our understanding of a fifteenth-century musical revolution. Renaissance composers developed fresh ways of handling musical flow in pursuit of intensifications, unexpected explosions, dramatic pauses, and sudden evaporations. A new esthetics of opposition, as this study calls it, can be contrasted with smoother and less goal-oriented approaches in music from before - and after - the period ca. 1425-1520. Casting wide evidentiary and repertorial nets, the book reinterprets central genres, theoretical concepts, historical documents, famous pieces, and periodizations; a provocative concluding chapter suggests that we moderns have tended to conceal the period's musical poetics by neglecting central evidence. Above all the book introduces an analytical approach sensitive to musical flow and invites new ways of hearing, performing, and thinking about music from Du Fay to Josquin.

Author: Jesse Rodin
ISBN-10: 1107184592
ISBN-13: 9781107184596
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/12/2024
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.81lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.88d