Renaissance Polyphony

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrice Fitch
1994 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Honey Meconi

Broadly speaking, we can divide Renaissance polyphony into five groups: works not using any pre-existent material, and pieces based on sacred monophony, secular monophony, sacred polyphony or secular polyphony. This is not the common way to classify Renaissance compositions. The more normal breakdown is by the technique applied to the pre-existent material – cantus firmus, paraphrase, parody – regardless of what that material was. Yet much is to be gained by starting with the original material, and that was, after all, what the composer probably did at least some of the time.


2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-101
Author(s):  
Thomas Muir

In the early nineteenth century there were three main styles of music performed in the English Catholic Church. First, there was plainchant, mainly that copied by John Francis Wade in the previous century and then refracted through arrangements by Samuel Webbe the elder, Samuel Wesley and Vincent Novello. Second, there was a native and, for its day, a fairly up-to-date style associated again with the two Webbes, Wesley and Novello. Third, there were Continental imports, especially grand masses, composed by Viennese Classical masters such as Mozart and Haydn, or Hummel and Weber. All three styles were developed and remained popular throughout the nineteenth century; but increasingly they were challenged by a revived interest in Renaissance-style polyphony, especially music composed between 1551 and 1650. This paper examines that development looking at, first, the general factors that encouraged it; second, the main stages in its revival; and third, the extent and effects of its influence and achievement.


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1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

1980 ◽  
Vol 121 (1652) ◽  
pp. 640
Author(s):  
Jerome Roche ◽  
Bruno Turner

2020 ◽  
pp. 160-167
Author(s):  
Н.Б. Сербул

В рецензии отражены важнейшие аспекты сложного и многогранного труда автора. Систематизируется понятийный аппарат, в частности, обсуждаются проблемы терминологии в области обратимого контрапункта. Предпринята попытка рассмотреть и объяснить позицию автора по этому вопросу в контексте истории формирования других точек зрения. Анализируются инновации в области методики преподавания полифонии, особенности сочетания исторического и технологического подходов к изучению предмета, новизна и практическая актуальность научных положений. Отмечаются инновационные разработки автора в области теории малых и больших имитационных форм. Универсальность и последовательность применения этой теории придает цельность и логическую стройность всему труду автора. Особое внимание привлекается к приемам, способствующим детальному освоению и реконструкции в учебных работах стиля ренессансной полифонии. Подробно рассматриваются новые формулировки правил метроритмической организации, типы работы над мелодией строгого письма, предложенные автором учебника. Отмечается важность рецензируемого издания как этапа развития петербургской музыковедческой школы, обобщения ее научных достижений и методических разработок. Выявляется ряд направлений, объединяющих исследования А. П. Милки с ведущими отечественными научными школами. The review specifies the most important aspects of the complex and multifaceted work of the author, systematizing and discussing the conceptual apparatus, in particular, the problems of terminology in the field of reversible counterpoint. An attempt is made to consider and explain the author's position on this issue in the context of the history of formation of other points of view. The author analyzes innovations in the field of polyphony teaching methods, the peculiarities of the combination of historical and technological approaches in the study of the subject, the novelty and practical relevance of scientific provisions. The author's innovative developments in the field of the theory of small and large imitation forms are noted. The versatility and consistency of the application of this theory gives integrity and logical harmony to the entire work of the author. Particular attention is drawn to techniques that contribute to the detailed development and reconstruction of the Renaissance polyphony style in educational works. The new formulations of the rules of metro-rhythmic organization, new types of work on the melody of strict writing, proposed by the author of the textbook, are considered in detail. The importance of the peer-reviewed publication is noted as a new stage in the development of the St. Petersburg school of music, as a generalization of its scientific achievements and methodological developments. A number of areas are identified that connect the research of Anatoly P. Milka with the leading Russian scientific schools.


Musurgia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol XXVI (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Nicolas Meeùs

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