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During the 1950s and 1960s, Austro-German scholars made decisive advances in developing concepts to account for "harmonic" processes in late medieval music. Despite the considerable potential these ideas hold for analysis and criticism of early music, they have hitherto exerted little influence outside their countries of origin. In order to render this valuable literature more immediately accessible to English-speaking students and scholars, this book presents translations of twelve seminal articles that originally appeared during the years 1948-1967, along with a comprehensive introductory chapter detailing the evolution of competing theories and terminology.
List of contents
Toward a Comprehensive View of Compositional Priorities in the Music of Dufay and His Contemporaries, Kevin N. Moll * Dufay-Creator of Fauxbourdon, from Acta Musicologica, Heinrich Besseler * Toward a History of the Genesis of Fauxbourdon, from Acta Musicologica, Rudolf von Ficker * Tonal Harmony and Full Sonority: A Reply to Rudolf von Ficker, from Acta Musicologica, Heinrich Besseler * Harmony in the Cantus-Firmus Compositions of the Fifteenth Century, from Archiv fÿr Musikwissenschaft, Bernhard Meier * The 'Tonal Discant' and 'Free Discant' Techniques of Composition in the Fifteenth Century, from Archiv fÿr Musikwissenschaft, Ernst Apfel * The Cantus-Firmus Question in the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries, from Archiv fÿr Musikwissenschaft, Gÿnther Schmidt * The Origin of True Four-Voice Counterpoint in England, from Archiv fÿr Musikwissenschaft, Ernst ApfelFour-Voice Counterpoint in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, from Archiv fÿr Musikwissenschaft, Ernst Apfel * The Harmonic Structure of Late Medieval Music as a Foundation of Major-Minor Tonality, from Die Musikforschung, Ernst Apfel * Late Medieval Harmonic Structure and Major-Minor Tonality, from Die Musikforschung, Ernst Apfel * Tonality and Harmony in the French Chanson between Machaut and Dufay, from Archiv fÿr Musikwissenschaft, Wolfgang Marggraf * The Effect of Medieval English Polyphony upon the Development of Continental and Cantus-Firmus Techniques and Tonal Structure, from Archiv fÿr Musikwissenschaft, Ernest H. Sanders Index. Appendix. Bibliography
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Kevin N. Moll
Summary
Between 1948 and 1967, German-speaking scholars produced a significant collection of articles charting new concepts of mode, harmony, counterpoint, and compositional process in the late 15th century. These essays are presented in English translation for the first time.
