John Dygon''s Proportiones Practicabiles Secundum Gaffurium - (Practical Proportions According to Gaffurius)

Klappentext John Dygon was the prior of St. Augustine's monastery in Canterbury when Henry VIII boldly dissolved the English Catholic Church during the 1530s and reorganized it under royal control. Only a single copy of Dygon's treatises on music theory has survived! held by Trinity College! Cambridge. This volume is the first publication of the two treatises! providing both a scholarly transcription and English translation. Dygon's work provides a rare and important example of musical scholarship from the early Tudor period! demonstrating the status of music education at the time! the affiliations of English scholarship with music study in Europe! and the music that was actually performed in England. The treatises address questions of musical notation! especially regarding rhythmic proportions! as well as practical issues about performance. Theodor Dumitrescu's introduction situates Dygon's treatises within the larger history of European music! paying close attention to its borrowings from and adaptations of prior treatises. Zusammenfassung John Dygon was the prior of St Augustine's monastery in Canterbury when Henry VIII dissolved the English Catholic Church during the 1530s and reorganized it under royal control. This volume features these two treatises! providing a transcription and English translation. It provides an example of musical scholarship from the early Tudor period.

Product details

• Authors: Theodor Dumitrescu, John Dygon, John/ Mathiesen Dygon
• Assisted by: Theodor Dumitrescu (Editor), Theodor Dumitrescu (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2006
• EAN: 9780252031823
• ISBN: 978-0-252-03182-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in the History of Musi; Studies His MusicTheory and Lit; Studies in the History of Music Theory and Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Renaissance, Europa, 16. Jahrhundert (1500 bis 1599 n. Chr.), Mittelalterlicher Stil