The Art of Counterpoint From Du Fay to Josquin

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 Casting wide evidentiary and repertorial nets, the book reinterprets central genres, theoretical concepts, historical documents, famous pieces, and periodizations; a provocative concluding chapter suggests that we moderns have tended to conceal the period's musical poetics by neglecting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.

Product details

• Authors: Jesse Rodin, Jesse (Stanford University Rodin, Rodin Jesse
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9781107184596
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18459-6
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 250 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Europe, MUSIC / History & Criticism, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Renaissance style, Music reviews and criticism, c 500 BCE to c 1500 CE (Italian ancient and medieval period), Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Medieval style, For higher / tertiary / university education