{"product_id":"the-art-of-counterpoint-from-du-fay-to-josquin-hardback-9781107184596","title":"The Art of Counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin (Hardback) 9781107184596","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Art of Counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevolutionizes our understanding of pacing and flow in Renaissance music and invites new ways of hearing and performing it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJesse Rodin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107184596, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e392 pages\u003cbr\u003e25 x 17.6 x 2.4 cm, 0.84 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This is altogether a masterly, engagingly written contribution to the scholarly literature, holding great value not only for musicologists but also for choral directors engaged in performing Renaissance music. I would consider it a necessity for music libraries that support graduate programs in musicology or choral conducting and recommend it for music libraries at undergraduate-only schools that have strong choral programs.' John L. Snyder, Notes, the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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 Casting wide evidentiary and repertorial nets, the book reinterprets central genres, theoretical concepts, historical documents, famous pieces, and periodizations; a provocative concluding chapter suggests that we moderns have tended to conceal the period's musical poetics by neglecting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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Starting Points: 1. An esthetics of opposition that privileges intensification, deintensification, and dramatic arcs-and what came before and after\u003cbr\u003e 2. A discursive vacuum\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Tinctoris's Varietas: 3. Defining terms\u003cbr\u003e 4. Varietas as an esthetic paradigm\u003cbr\u003e 5. Tinctoris knew the repertoire\u003cbr\u003e 6. Pieces exemplifying varietas\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Fundaments of the Art: 7. The parameters\u003cbr\u003e 8. Affordances of four- and five-voice texture\u003cbr\u003e 9. Sacred genres\u003cbr\u003e 10. The formes fixes\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Art in Action: 11. Some songs by Du Fay\u003cbr\u003e 12. Peaks, valleys, and flow in Ockeghem's sacred music\u003cbr\u003e 13. Busnoys, Josquin, and the Hurricane Osanna\u003cbr\u003e 14. Seven awesome endings\u003cbr\u003e 15. Pater Noster across the esthetic divide\u003cbr\u003e 16. The art of counterpoint in performance\u003cbr\u003e Appendices: 1. Tinctoris's rules of counterpoint\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rough guide to the late fifteenth-century cyclic mass\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index of Compositions\u003cbr\u003e General Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Medieval \u0026amp; Renaissance music [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Medieval \u0026amp; Renaissance music\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Medieval%20\u0026amp;%20Renaissance%20music%20%5Bc%201000%20to%20c%201600%5D%20%5BAVGC2%5D%22\"\u003ec 1000 to c 1600 AVGC2\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52415681298712,"sku":"9781107184596","price":85.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781107184596i.jpg?v=1784422833","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-art-of-counterpoint-from-du-fay-to-josquin-hardback-9781107184596","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}