The Cambridge history of fifteenth-century music [electronic resource] / edited by Anna Maria Busse Berger, Jesse Rodin.

Contributor Berger, Anna Maria Busse, editor.

ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Description1 online resource (xxxv, 875 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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Note:Historiography -- Improvisation and composition -- Humanism -- Music and other arts -- Music in churches, courts, and cities -- Religious devotion and liturgy -- Theory and practice -- Sources -- Genres -- Reception.

Note:Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics. Multidisciplinary studies of music and architecture, feasting, poetry, politics, liturgy, and religious devotion rub shoulders with studies of compositional techniques, musical notation, music manuscripts, and reception history. Generously illustrated with figures and examples, this volume paints a vibrant picture of musical life in a period characterized by extraordinary innovation and artistic achievement.

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