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Hardcover
Published: 1st September 1989
ISBN: 9780226494784
Number Of Pages: 1023
The writings gathered here finally make available in one place Lowinsky's major essays—including four previously unpublished ones—in two volumes that are lavishly provided with musical examples and illustrations.
"Professor Lowinsky's method is the only kind of 'writing about music' that I value."—Igor Stravinsky
| List of Illustrations | |
| Foreword | |
| Foreword | |
| Introduction | |
| Music and the History of Ideas | |
| Music History and Its Relation to the History of Ideas | |
| The Concept of Physical and Musical Space in the Renaissance (A Preliminary Sketch) | |
| Music in the Culture of the Renaissance | |
| Musical Genius: Evolution and Origins of a Concept | |
| Taste, Style, and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Music | |
| Music of the Renaissance as Viewed by Renaissance Musicians | |
| The Problem of Mannerism in Music: An Attempt at a Definition | |
| Humanism in the Music of the Renaissance | |
| Musical Iconography | |
| The Goddess Fortuna in Music, with a Special Study of Josquin'sFortuna d'un gran tempo | |
| Matthaeus Greiter'sFortuna: An Experiment in Chromaticism and in Musical Iconography | |
| The Music in Carpaccio's "St. Jerome's Study" | |
| Problems in Adrian Willaert's Iconography | |
| Ockeghem's Canon for Thirty-Six Voices: An Essay in Musical Iconography | |
| Music in Titian'sBacchanal of the Andrians: Origin and History of theCanon per tonos | |
| Jan van Eyck'sTymotheos: Sculptor or Musician? With an Investigation of the Autobiographic Strain in French Poetry from Rutebeuf to Villon | |
| The Sixteenth-Century Motet | |
| Orlando di Lasso's Antwerp Motet Book and Its Relationship to the Contemporary Netherlandish Motet | |
| A Newly Discovered Sixteenth-Century Motet Manuscript at the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome | |
| A Music Book for Anne Boleyn | |
| Josquin des Prez | |
| Helmuth Osthoff's Josquin Monograph | |
| Josquin des Prez and Ascanio Sforza | |
| Ascanio Sforza's Life: A Key to Josquin's Biography and an Aid to the Chronology of His Works | |
| Ludovico il Moro's Visit to the Abbey of Chiaravalle in 1497: A Report to Ascanio Sforza | |
| Cipriano de Rore as Court Composer: Ferrara and Munich | |
| Cipriano de Rore's Venus Motet: Its Poetic and Pictorial Sources 24.Calami sonum ferentes: A New Interpretation | |
| Two Motets and Two Madrigals for the Este Family | |
| Rore's New Year's Gift for Albrecht V of Bavaria | |
| Musica Ficta | |
| The Function of Conflicting Signatures in Early Polyphonic Music | |
| Conflicting Views on Conflicting Signatures | |
| Adrian Willaert's Chromatic "Duo" Reexamined | |
| Echoes of Adrian Willaert's Chromatic "Duo" in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century Compositions | |
| The Musical Avant-Garde of the Renaissance; or, The Peril and Profit of Foresight | |
| Secret Chromatic Art Reexamined 33.Musica fictain the Josquin Edition | |
| The Compositional Process | |
| On the Use of Scores by Sixteenth-Century Musicians | |
| Early Scores in Manuscripts | |
| English Organ Music of the Renaissance | |
| A Treatise on Text Underlay by a German Disciple of Francisco de Salinas | |
| Canon Technique and Simultaneous Conception in Fifteenth-Century Music: A Comparison of North and South | |
| On Mozart's Rhythm | |
| Views and Reviews | |
| Secret Chromatic Art in the Netherlands Motet: A Reply | |
| Renaissance Writings on Music Theory | |
| On the Presentation and Interpretation of Evidence: Another Review of Costanzo Festa's Biography | |
| rCharacter and Purposes of American Musicology: A Reply to Joseph Kerman Bibliography of the Writings of Edward E. Lowinsky | |
| Index of Manuscripts | |
| Cited General | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780226494784
ISBN-10: 0226494780
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 1023
Published: 1st September 1989
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 38.74 x 26.04
x 8.26
Weight (kg): 3.61
Edition Number: 2
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