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Fang, Ming-Jian. "Notational systems and practices for the lute, vihuela and guitar from the Renaissance to the present day." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/558361.
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Discussion in this dissertation is directed toward the lute, vihuela and guitar's notational systems and practices: chapters two, three, four, and five are concerned with the stylistic changes in the notations. The history of the tablatures is presented in a paralled fashion with that of the four-course and five-course guitars. An attempt is made to eliminate the guitarist's lack of knowledge about most practices and about subtle differences in performance. This is accomplished by presenting the development of these notations from the Renaissance to the present day.This study is concerned with the mastery and understanding of notation. After an introduction, the second chapter discusses three main tablatures for the lute and vihuela. It is important to confine oneself to the tablatures, in order that they be throughly understood. Thusthe third chapter deals with ornamentations, the fourth chapter with four-course, five course, six-course and six-string guitar notations, and the fifth chapter encompasses progressive notationfor the modern guitar. Systems for folk and commercial music are not addressed in this paper.The author hopes that with the use of this dissertation, tablatures can be handled with less difficulty and put into proper perspective. Careful thought has been given in selecting representative examples and notational literature excerpts as illustrations for the reader and/or performer. These examples need not only be studied but can be used as preparation for any other related composition. The purpose of this study is to supply teachers, students, and guitarists with a ready-reference guide to the notational practices for the lute, vihuela and guitar, a subject previously shrouded in confusion.<br>School of Music
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Corcoran, Kathleen Anne 1959. "The guitar anthology of Henry Francois de Gallot (1661): A preliminary study." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291728.
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The manuscript entitled "Pieces de Guitarre de differende Autheure recuellis par Henry Francois de Gallot" (GB:Ob Ms. Mus. Sch. C94) is one of the largest single collections of music for the Baroque guitar. The source contains over 600 pieces by various composers, including Gallot and Corbetta. An overview of the physical characteristics, organization, and stylistic features of this important source is intended to provide a basis for further study and concordance search.
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Le, Cocq Jonathan. "French lute-song, 1529-1643." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a712369-836c-45e4-9f84-91045f297b3f.
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A study of French-texted solo songs and duets with lute or guitar accompaniment notated in tablature, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Connected repertoires include the Parisian chanson, psalm, <i>voix de ville</i>, dialogue, and <i>air de cour</i>. Sources are examined in terms of their background, composers represented in them, relationship to concordant and other musical sources, repertoire, and musical conception. Foreign and manuscript sources are included. Literary references indicating the status of sixteenth-century lute-song, its importance to humanists (including its role in the <i>Académie de Poésie et de Musique</i>), and its position in theatrical works, are considered. Issues of notation, musical and poetic form, prosody, rhythm, ornamentation, lute pitch and tuning, relationship to polyphonic versions, to the <i>ballet de cour</i>, to dance forms, and to solo instrumental styles such as <i>stile brisé</i> are examined. Early references to continuo practice and to the theorbo are noted. Several arguments are developed, including 1. that the sixteenth-century Le Roy publications were conceived primarily as solo lute music, 2. that from the late sixteenth-century onwards lute-songs were initially conceived as melody-bass outlines, and may to an extent be regarded as continuo realisations, and 3. that rhythmic features of the <i>air de cour</i> commonly related to the influence of musique mesurée may also be explained with reference to earlier attempts to adapt the <i>voix de ville</i> to humanist goals, and also to the influence of the Italian villanella. Includes tables and bibliographies. Musical examples, facsimiles, and transcriptions are included in a separate volume.
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Gavito, Cory Michael. "Carlo Milanuzzi's Quarto scherzo and the climate of Venetian popular music in the 1620s." Thesis, view full-text document, 2001. http://www.library.unt.edu/theses/open/20012/gavito%5Fcory/index.htm.
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Olson, Ted. "A Century of Heritage Guitar Music." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/134.
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Album Notes For those who love the traditional music of Southwest Virginia, especially the many folks who make it, listening to these recordings will likely be a deeply emotional experience. Embedded within these recordings are cherished memories that connect people to the first time they ever heard a certain artist, or the first song they themselves ever learned on guitar. A Century of Heritage Guitar Music represents a shared experience of the people of The Crooked Road region - an experience that connects families and communities with their unique place and culture. Like The Crooked Road itself, this compilation is about music that is rooted in a particular place - a music that is perpetuated for the most part by barbers, farmers, luthiers, cabinet makers, and other folks who delight in the music-making at day's end. How remarkable that their music, made mostly for sharing with their friends and community, has had such a profound impact around the world. The Crooked Road is truly grateful for the opportunity to share the contributions of these amazing artists through this compilation.<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1160/thumbnail.jpg
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Dean, Alexander. "The five-course guitar and seventeenth-century harmony : Alfabeto and Italian song /." Digitized version, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1802/1098.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester, 2009.<br>Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references. Digitized version available online via the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music http://hdl.handle.net/1802/10978
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Strahle, Graham. "Fantasy and music in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1987. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs896.pdf.
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Meredith, Victoria Rose. "The use of chorus in baroque opera during the late seventeenth century, with an analysis of representative examples for concert performance." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186254.
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The intent of this study is twofold: first, to explore the dramatic and musical functions of chorus in baroque operas in Italy, France, and England; second, to identify choral excerpts from baroque operas suitable for present-day concert performance. Musical and dramatic functions of chorus in baroque opera are identified. Following a brief historical overview of the use of chorus in the development of Italian, French, and English baroque opera, representative choruses are selected for analysis and comparison. Examples are presented to demonstrate characteristic musical use of chorus in baroque opera; characteristic dramatic use of chorus in baroque opera; or, the suitability of a chorus for use as concert repertoire. Musical examples are drawn from a twenty-five year period in the late seventeenth century, 1667-1692, as represented in Italy by Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Sartorio, and Antonio Cesti; in France by Jean-Baptiste Lully; and in England by Henry Purcell. The results of this study indicate that there are numerous choruses appropriate for concert performance to be found in the English baroque opera repertoire, the semi-operas of Henry Purcell in particular; there are some suitable examples to be found in French baroque operas, although frequently choruses by Lully are harmonically simpler than those by Purcell; and, there are choruses available for extraction from early Italian operas such as those by Monteverdi, but very few to be found in late seventeenth century Italian operas. The document concludes with an appendix of selected baroque opera choruses considered appropriate for concert performance. The appendix includes only those choruses considered to be harmonically, melodically, and textually autonomous, and of sufficient length to be free-standing. Selections chosen for the appendix are drawn from a wider range of composers and a broader time span than those discussed in the body of the paper. Information contained in the appendix includes composer, opera title, date, act and scene, chorus title, voicing, source, and editorial remarks.
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Melvin, Michael John. "Tonal harmonic syntax and guitar performance idiom in two mid-seventeenth-century Italian guitar books by Angelo Michele Bartolotti (c. 1615--after 1682)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278814.
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Since the 1960s the publications of American musicologist Richard Hudson, along with recent articles by other scholars, have shown the five-course Spanish guitar to have been at the forefront of harmonic innovation in the early seventeenth century. Existing publications in this area, however, deal exclusively with guitar music in the rudimentary battuto strumming style and do not address the development of harmonic language in guitar music after circa 1630. From circa 1630 the battuto style gave way to a new guitar idiom that combined both strumming and plucking, thus affording guitarists the opportunity to incorporate more sophisticated harmonic devices into their music. This thesis endeavors to furnish a preliminary case study on the development of harmonic language in guitar music after circa 1630 by tracing the evolution of a tonal harmonic syntax in minor-mode Allemandes from two mid-seventeenth-century guitar books by Bolognese guitarist Angelo Michele Bartolotti (c. 1615--after 1682).
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Lazo, Alejandro. "Contemporary Mexican Classical Guitar Music at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Selected Compositions 1988-2003." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193775.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to discover if Arturo Fuentes’ Primer Interludio incorporates a number of stylistic features typical of guitar music written by Mexican contemporaries from 1988 to 2003. These features include the use of complex musical notation, highly disjunct melodic contour, extended techniques, innovative timbres, rhythmic complexity, rapidly changing dynamics, atonality, percussive effects and repetitive rhythmic and/or melodic cells. As a point of departure a list of guitar works by representative Mexican composers was compiled. From this list the following works were chosen since they exemplify the stylistic trends I wish to highlight: Tres Instantáneas (1988) by Manuel Enríquez, Sonata (1992) and Elegía 2 (2000) by Hebert Vázquez, Haikus (2000) by Ana Lara, Sydolira (2000) by Gabriela Ortíz, and Impello (2003) by Francisco Javier González Compeán. By comparative analysis, I have associated certain stylistic features between these contemporary Mexican composers. I have been able to get a glimpse of some of the underlying stylistic unities found in these guitar compositions that seem rather separate. There are a number of stylistic features common to all of the composers discussed herein as well as few characteristics where only some of them converge. However, this research shows that Arturo Fuentes’ Primer Interludio is representative of several stylistic features commonly found in guitar music written by contemporary Mexican composers. There is a vast variety of Mexican guitar works created in recent years that remain unknown to today’s classical music world, academic community and general public. Mexico possesses a large repertoire of guitar works, music for solo guitar and guitar with a wide array of ensemble combinations from duets to large ensembles and guitar concertos. Many of these works would undoubtedly challenge a performer of the highest caliber. One of the purposes of this project is to promote contemporary Mexican classical guitar music. I hope to awake interest in this contemporary music style and encourage other musicians to include Mexican works in their concert repertoire.
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Moolman, Jonathan Louis. "Key factors that contributed to the guitar developing into a solo instrument in the early 19th century." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27160.
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Anderson, Simon John. "Music by members of the Choral Foundation of Durham Cathedral in the 17th century." Thesis, Durham University, 2000. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1166/.
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Durham Cathedral is known to possess one of the largest and most intact collections of 17th-century liturgical music manuscripts in the world. That so much material survived the trauma of the Commonwealth is fortuitous indeed. The history of the pre-Civil War manuscripts has already been researched, and those after the Restoration have been investigated to a degree. The present research is concerned with a detailed study of the music composed by the many Durham musicians of the 17th century contained in the manuscripts, and their related sources. In total over 80 works by 20 composers are represented in varying degrees of completeness. These range from complete autograph texts through to solitary tenor parts. The study is concerned solely with the scene at Durham. To enlarge on earlier research, a detailed study of the manuscripts from the second half of the century is presented. These show the stability of the repertoire and the introduction of much new material towards the end of the century. A newlycompiled catalogue of the related manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge is presented as an appendix. A representation of every piece of Durham-composed music is given. Extracts only are presented of fragmentary items, and also for reasons of space and time where a whole piece of music does not reveal anything significant. Reconstructions are presented of works with one or two parts missing, or where a large amount of material can be recovered from an extant organ part. Transcriptions are presented in cases where a complete text survives. The study is divided into two volumes. Volume one describes the music and its sources, and volume two contains musical transcriptions.
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O'Regan, Thomas Noel. "Sacred polychoral music in Rome, 1575-1621." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:daa9a67e-cf31-4a1b-8d74-4b814acb6957.
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The object of this thesis is to lay open a repertory of music which has long been ignored, the music for two and more choirs composed by Roman composers of the generation of Palestrina and his immediate successors. Polychoral music is taken to mean music in which two or more independent and consistent groups of voices take part, singing separately and together; the parts should remain independent in tuttl sections, with the possible exception of the bass parts. By this definition, the first real polychoral music to be published in Rome was that by Giovanni P. da Palestrina in his Motettorum liber secundus of 1575. This is taken as the starting point for this study. Music which might have influenced Roman composers is examined, as well as eight-voice music by Roman composers which is not polychoral according to the above criteria. The development of polychoral music in the city is then traced through the reigns of the various popes from Gregory XIII to Paul V, whose death in 1621 is taken as a convenient place to end the study. Particular emphasis is laid on structural and textural aspects and the way these were adapted by successive composers. The ground for the Roman concerts to style was laid in the early experiments by composers such as Giovanni Animuccia, Palestrina and Tomas Luis de Victoria; this is traced through what is termed the 'fragmented' style of the last two decades of the sixteenth century to the full flowering of the large-scale concerts to motet after 1605. The music is studied in the context of the institutions for which it was written. The archives of these Institutions have been researched for information on performance practice, which is presented here. The broader cultural, social and religious background which spawned the idiom is also examined and polychoral music related both to the new propagandist attitude of church leaders from Gregory XIII onwards, and to a general expansion in musical activity in the city of Rome through the period under investigation. The various printed and manuscript sources for this music have been researched and the resulting catalogue of pieces by fifty or so composers who worked in the city is presented. A more detailed examination is carried out of the primary manuscript sources, from which valuable information on various aspects of the music can be obtained.
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Rushing-Raynes, Laura. "A history of the Venetian sacred solo motet (c. 1610--1720)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185473.
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In 17th century Italy, the trend toward small sacred concertato forms precipitated the publication of a number of volumes devoted exclusively to sacred solo vocal music. Several of these, including the Ghirlanda sacra (Gardano, 1625) and Motetti a voce sola (Gardano, 1645) contain sacred solo motets by some of the best Italian composers of the period. Venetian composers were at the forefront of the move toward the smaller concertato forms and, to fulfill various needs of church musicians, wrote in an increasingly virtuoso style intended to highlight the solo voice. This study traces the development of the solo motet in the sacred works of Venetian composers from the time of Monteverdi to Vivaldi. It revolves around sacred solo motets composed at Saint Marks and the Venetian ospedali (orphanages). It includes works of Alessandro Grandi, Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and Antonio Vivaldi. It also deals with solo motets of lesser composers whose works are available in modern critical and performing editions or in recently published facsimiles. In addition to providing a more detailed survey of the genre than has been previously available, this study provides an overview of highly performable (but largely neglected) repertoire.
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Silva, Júnior Mário da 1962. "Violão expandido : panorama, conceito e estudos de caso nas obras de Edino Krieger, Arthur Kampela e Chico Mello." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285296.
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Previous issue date: 2013<br>Resumo: O trabalho investiga as obras para violão dos compositores Edino Krieger (1928) (Ritmata, 1974 para violão solo), Chico Mello (1958) (Do Lado Do Dedo, 1987 para violão solo e Dança para quatro violões, 1986) e Arthur Kampela (1960) (Percussion Study 1,1991-93, para violão solo) visando criar um guia de interpretação e escrita da técnica expandida no Brasil. As obras perpassam um âmbito produtivo que se estende de 1974 a 1994 e investigaram-se conceitos e tendências em visão panorâmica da técnica expandida de maneira histórica nacional e internacional. Tal investigação teve como objetivo a abordagem das características complexas do ponto de vista rítmico-percussivo e timbrístico. Procedimentos articulatórios variáveis da execução do violonista implicam aprimoramento e enriquecimento da qualidade estética do repertório. Esses procedimentos consistem em processos criativos de viabilização acústica e adequação mecânica, suportes instrumentais e materiais para melhor clareza e exequibilidade nas obras. Elencou-se e categorizou-se cada possibilidade sonora expandida encontrada nessas obras<br>Abstract: The thesis investigates the works of composers Edino Krieger (1928) (Ritmata 1974 for solo guitar ), Chico Mello (1958) ( Do Lado do Dedo, 1987 for solo guitar and Dança for Guitar Quartet, 1986) and Arthur Kampela (1960) ( Percussion Study 1.1991-93 , for solo guitar) aiming to create a guide to interpreting and writing extended technique in Brazil. The works permeate the productive one that extends from 1974 to 1994 and investigated concepts and trends in technical overview of the expanded national and international historical way. Such investigation was aimed at addressing the complex features in terms of timbre and rhythmic- percussive procedures. Articulatory variables procedures (diversified plucking, tapping and percussive procedures) implementing by the guitarists imply improvement and enrichment of the quality of the aesthetic repertoire. These procedures consist of creative processes viability acoustic and mechanical fit, instrumental support and materials for clarity and feasibility in the works. Every extended sound found in these works was listed and categorized<br>Doutorado<br>Processos Criativos<br>Doutor em Música
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Jackson, Simon John. "The literary and musical activities of the Herbert family." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283892.
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Kirk, Douglas Karl. "Churching the shawms in Renaissance Spain : Lerma, archivo de San Pedro ms. mus. 1." Diss., McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=77431.
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Numerous studies have shown that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Spanish churches (both metropolitan and monastic) employed bands of wind instrumentalists to play frequently in liturgies and processions throughout the church year. Exactly what this music was, though, beyond colla parte participation in masses and motets has remained conjectural because not a note of it has been found. This dissertation is a study and edition of a major, newly-discovered manuscript which contained part of the repertory of the minstrels who served the Duke of Lerma, c. 1607, in the collegial church of San Pedro in Lerma. By comparing the repertory in the manuscript with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century instructions to minstrels in Le6n and Palencia, it has been possible to establish typical ecclesiastical performance responsibilities of minstrels and deduce how such a collection of instrumental music would have been used. Furthermore, after study of the surviving inventories of San Pedro, it has been possible to reconstruct the entire polyphonic musical repertory of the church. This enables us to see the sort of musical library available to the typical succentor or chapelmaster of the time, and the place that minstrel repertory occupied. Finally, a significant number of the original Lerma manuscripts and prints have been traced into modern collections, allowing us to know much more about their origins and history than heretofore.<br>Plusieurs etudes ont demontre qu'au seizieme et au dix-septieme siecle, les eglises espagnoles (metropolitaines et monacales) employaient des ensembles de musiciens utilisant des instruments "hauts" pour jouer dans de nombreuses liturgies et processions tout au long de l'annee. Ce que cette musique etait precisement, au-dela de la participation dans l'accompagnement des choeurs des messes et motets, ne reste que conjectures puisqu' au aucune note n'a ete trouvee. Cette dissertation est une etude et une edition d'un manusmt d'une importance majeure et nouvellement decouvert, identifie comme ayant fait partie du repertoire des menestrels servant le duc de Lerma, c. 1607, qui etaient engages pour jouer a l' eglise collegiale de San Pedro a Lerma. En comparant le repertoire dans le manuscrit avec les instructions des menestrels du seizieme et du dix-septieme siecle a Le6n et Palencia, il a ete possible d' etablir les responsabilites musicales liturgique des menestrels et de deduire comment toute cette collection de musique instrumentale avait pu ~e utilisee. De plus, apres l' etude des inventaires subsistants de San Pedro, on a pu reconstruire le repertoire musical polyphonique dans son entier. Ceci nous permet de voir la collection musicale disponible du chantre ou maitre de chapelle typique du temps, ainsi que la place qu' occupait le repertoire des menestrels. Finalement un nombre significatif de manuscrits et imprimes a ete retrace dans les collections modemes, nous permettant d' en connaitre. fr
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Ledbetter, David. "Harpsichord and lute music in seventeenth-century France : an assessment of the influence of lute on keyboard repertoire." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:525956f0-fd49-4649-94e5-c52ad46221cb.
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The view that the lute exercised an important influence on the formation of French harpsichord style in the seventeenth century is a commonplace of musicology which has not until now been thoroughly investigated. This thesis is an attempt to determine the nature of that influence taking into account as much of the available relevant material as possible. The first chapter outlines the status and function of stringed keyboard instruments, particularly in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, using a wide variety of non-musical sources whether literary, archival, or documentary. It also charts the relative standing of the two instruments and the interrelationship of their repertoires as viewed by contemporaries throughout the seventeenth century. The second chapter provides a survey of the evolution of French lute style based on a detailed study of most of the French lute sources from the period cl600-cl670 and including the more important sources from cl670-cl700. The third chapter presents detailed comparisons of individual works existing in versions for both lute and keyboard. These are based on numerous parallel transcriptions presented in the second volume. The material for this section is provided by a concordance file for virtually all French seventeenth-century lute sources designed to be usable in conjunction with Gustafson's keyboard catalogue. The final chapter is an attempt to define the degree of affinity existing between particular features of the central harpsichord style and that of the lute on the basis of principles established in the previous discussions. This thesis contains the first detailed discussion of the works of the principal seventeenth-century French lutenists in the context of a survey of the general development of the lute style. Numerous illustrative examples of hitherto unpublished lute music are included in the second volume. The final chapter also discusses some new sources of French harpsichord music dating from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with transcriptions. Also discussed for the first time is the Premier Livre (1687) of Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and a transcription of a suite supposedly written in imitation of the lute is given. A comprehensive concordance of pieces existing in versions for both lute and harpsichord is given in Volume II.
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Lochbaum, Stephen. "An Overview and Performance Guide to the 10 Etudes for Guitar by Giulio Regondi." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1505178/.
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The 10 Etudes for Guitar by Giulio Regondi represent the pinnacle of technical achievement for nineteenth century guitar performance. Dense textures, large stretches, fast scales and arpeggios, and obscure modulations are used in combinations that were unrivalled among his contemporaries. The etudes were not published until the late twentieth century and have not had generations of guitarists solving their challenges and teaching them to younger generations of students. Right-hand fingerings are virtually non-existent in published versions, but a thorough study of period sources yields several strategies; examples from each etude are provided. Modern right-hand scale philosophy, such as playing scales with "a," "m," and "i" in the right-hand are addressed and further example provided to give players several solutions to choose from. Right-hand fingering implies articulation and several interpretations are analyzed for each etude where they exist. Left-hand fingerings are sporadically present in modern editions but are often lacking in the most difficult passages. Stretching techniques from other string instruments can be applied to the guitar and one technique in particular can be applied to the most difficult stretches in Regondi in numerous instances. For some of the most challenging textures several solutions are given. The etudes of Regondi can prepare the guitarist for challenges found in playing music that is not written for the guitar or even by guitarists which consists of a substantial portion of the modern concert guitarist's repertoire. His music pushes what is possible on the guitar and borderlines what many would call idiomatic. This paper establishes a small number of techniques that will allow players to solve any challenge presented in the etudes from multiple technical viewpoints.
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Stanek, Mark C. "Guitar in the opera literature : a study of the instrument's use in opera during the 19th and 20th centuries." Virtual Press, 2004. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1285408.
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This dissertation is a study of the use of guitar in opera. Ten operas were chosen from the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century as a representative cross section of operas that use the guitar. The operas studied are: The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini, Oberon by Carl Maria von Weber, Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti, Beatrice and Benedict by Hector Berlioz, Otello and Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi, La vida breve by Manuel de Falla, The Nightingale by Igor Stravinsky, Wozzeck by Alban Berg, and Paul Bunyan by Benjamin Britten. The study examines the technical aspects of each guitar part and how the guitar relates to the libretto and to the other instruments of the orchestra.The study finds that, with some exceptions, the guitar parts are idiomatic and not difficult to execute. There is some need on the part of the guitarist to edit the parts for technical and historical reasons and editorial suggestions are made by the author. The guitar is often related to the libretto and often appears onstage, yet it is almost always used as a prop and the performing guitarist is placed offstage or in the orchestra pit. There are significant problems found concerning the guitar's lack of volume. Composers tend to limit the number of instruments in use with the guitar. They do not, however, tend to give the guitar louder dynamics when other instruments are used at the same time. The guitar is generally used in outdoor scenes, to evoke a folk idiom, or when specifically referred to in the libretto. The use of the guitar is found to be mostly limited to simple accompaniments which do not utilize the full resources of the instrument.<br>School of Music
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James, Douglas Goff. "Luigi Rinaldo Legnani: His life and position in European music of the early nineteenth century, with an annotated performance edition of selections from 36 Capricci per Tutti I Tuoni Maggiori E Minori, Opus 20." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186632.
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Luigi Legnani (1790-1877) was an important guitarist/composer of the early nineteenth century Italian Romantic school. In addition, he was also a highly skilled singer, violinist, and luthier. Legnani's guitar compositions represent the logical next step after Giuliani; fully evocative of the operatic vocal style characterized by Rossini, and technically adventurous in much the way Paganini's compositions were for the violin, although not to the same degree. His contributions to guitar literature form an important link in the chain of compositional and technical development during the nineteenth-century. This study is in two parts. The first will present as concise a biography as possible, particularly regarding Legnani's concert itineraries, contributions to guitar construction, and relationship with Paganini. An examination of little-known contemporary reviews of his performances will serve as a means of both documenting his concertizing and developing a concept of Legnani's performance style. The second part, an annotated performance edition of selections from Legnani's most famous composition, 36 Capricci per tutti i tuoni maggiori e minori, opus 20, will provide a basis for the understanding and successful performance of Legnani's music by modern guitarists. In conclusion, Legnani's unique contributions to both guitar composition and construction are reevaluated, and an up-to-date list of compositions appended.
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Katz, Jonathan. "The musicological portions of the Saṅgītanārāyaṇa : a critical edition and commentary". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:14ee1fc0-dcae-4183-9481-0add2a7d42f3.
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The Saṅgītanārāyaṇa, attributed to the Gajapati king Nārāyad nadeva of Parlākhimidi but almost certainly composed by his guru Kaviratna Purud sottamamisra, is the most extensive surviving Sanskrit treatise on music to have been composed in the eastern region of India now known as Orissa. The treatise contains four chapters, gītanirnaya (on vocal music), vādyanirṇaya (on instruments), nāṭyanirṇaya (on dance and the mimetic art), and śuddhaprabandhodāharaṇa (sample compositions of the śuddha and sālaga varieties). The thesis contains a critical edition of the first, second and fourth of these chapters with an English translation, commentary and introduction. Though the whole text was issued in a printed edition by the Orissa Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1966, the new edition offers substantial revisions and corrections to the published version. Eleven manuscripts have been examined; these are in Nagari, Bengali and Oriya scripts and are held in collections in Orissa, in other South Asian libraries, and in two British libraries. All of the manuscript evidence has been presented in a critical apparatus and in a section of supplementary textual notes. The commentary examines the technical contents of the work in detail and places the treatise within its Eastern Indian context. Special attention is drawn to certain subjects, for instance the account of compositional forms and metres, which represent a regional tradition, but all topics are placed also against the background of Sanskrit musicological traditions from other parts of India; some topics in the traditional sastra are thereby re-examined. In the introduction, the historical setting of the work is assessed, and the manuscript evidence is summarised. The proposed stemma codicum shows two groups of manuscripts, one from Orissa and one based in North India; manuscripts discovered in the future are expected to fit into one of these two.
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Ng, Shaun Kam Fook. "Le Sieur de Machy and the French solo viol tradition." University of Western Australia. School of Music, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0060.
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During the late seventeenth century in France, the viol was beginning to emerge as one of the most important musical instruments of the day. French luthiers had created the quintessential French viol, which allowed violists in France to make their mark on viol playing, both as performers and teachers. So fervent was this enterprise that players soon formed cliques, creating two opposing schools of viol playing. One of the main protagonists who is the focus of this thesis, De Machy, led one of these schools. Although we are fully aware of this historical dichotomy, it is widely assumed that De Machy's rivals were the eventual victors of this conflict, and thus have become the model for modern violists to emulate. This has, however, encouraged modern violists to completely disregard the efforts of De Machy, which, as this thesis shall demonstrate, are as important as those of his contemporaries. Chapter 1 discusses De Machy's place in modern scholarship, giving readers an overall view of the kinds of biases and prejudices that currently exist. It also serves to act as a brief collation and analysis of modern writings that discuss De Machy. Chapter 2 provides us with a historical account of the viol in France, giving special emphasis to solo viol playing. It also traces the evolution of musical style and playing technique as well as the development of the instrument within its social role. Chapter 3 discusses French ornamentation on plucked instruments, keyboard instruments and the viol, giving special emphasis to De Machy's own ideas on ornamentation. Possible explanations for the proper execution of these ornaments are also provided. Chapter 4 revaluates Rousseau and the Traité de la Viole (1687), and seeks to determine its reliability as a credible source of information. Chapter 5 describes and analyses the quarrel between De Machy and Rousseau as described by Rousseau in the Réponce de Monsieur Rousseau (1688). In addition to providing a more complete picture of the social interactions of the viol community of the late seventeenth century, this chapter seeks to better explain the issues that De Machy and Rousseau argued about. Chapter 6 examines historical and modern writings and attempts to explain one of the main issues of aforementioned quarrel, the left hand position otherwise known as the ports de main as advocated by De Machy. Appendix A reproduces the avertissement from De Machy's Pièces de Violle. The facsimile of the original publication is presented alongside the English translation. This document is central to many of the issues discussed in this thesis. Appendix B is an English translation of the Réponce de Monsieur Rousseau. One of the aims of this thesis is to re-examine the history of the viol in France, and more specifically, its use as a solo instrument. It is through De Machy's Pièces de Violle and Rousseau's Réponce that most of this information is centred.
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Vendrix, Philippe Pierre 1964. "Quelques aspects de l'historiographie musicale en France a l'epoque baroque (French text)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276706.
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L'historiographie musicale trouve dans la France de l'epoque baroque un champ ideal de developpement. Ce phenomene est lie a la conjonction de differents facteurs: le modele fourni par l'histoire generale, l'heritage humaniste, les mouvements polemiques, les tentatives de refonte de l'histoire de l'Eglise. Les musicographes, de Salomon de Caus (1615) a Jacques Bonnet-Bourdelot (1715), etablissent les fondements d'une critique historique et l'appliquent dans des ouvrages qui annoncent l'expansion de la musicologie a l'age des Lumieres.
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Ballantyne, Abigail L. "Writing and publishing music theory in early seventeenth-century Italy : Adriano Banchieri and his contemporaries." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5567c6ab-360c-47da-8b82-d7f1d4a4d4d7.
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Why write music theory and publish it? In the thesis I investigate the reasons for a seeming over-abundance of practically oriented music treatises in early seventeenth-century Italy. Throughout I challenge our conventional assessment of the study of music theory: I suggest that we can define a music-theoretical text in terms of its material form in addition to its content. Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634) was the most prolific theorist in early seventeenth-century Italy. His music-theory books exemplify contemporary printing patterns, an overt practical focus, and a synthesis of contemporary theoretical innovations. In Chapter 1, after considering the meaning of 'music theory' and how it is typically classified, I discuss the process of and purposes for writing and publishing music theory. In Chapter 2 I explore Banchieri's practical and philosophical motives for writing music theory, and thus introduce the reader to his music-theoretical corpus. The focus of the thesis then broadens: in Chapter 3 I survey the typical authors, publishing houses, content, material form, function and readers of the various kinds of theoretical texts printed in Italy between 1600 and 1630. In Chapter 4 I examine the widespread practice of publishing second and revised editions of music-theory books in order to establish the extent to which a new edition corresponds to a seeming demand for a particular text. The case study of the paratext of Banchieri's Conclusiones de musica (Bologna, 1627) in Chapter 5 demonstrates the great extent to which the preliminary matter of an early Seicento music-theory book is embedded in its socio-cultural context and how a paratext projects ideas contained in the text proper. Lastly, in Chapter 6 I explore to whom and in which particular forums theoretical writings circulated. Here I focus principally on Banchieri's printed letters, which provide evidence of how an author circulated his music books.
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Pamplin, Terence M. "The Baroque baryton : the origin and development in the 17th century of a solo, self-accompanying, bowed and plucked instrument played from tabulature." Thesis, Kingston University, 2000. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20684/.
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This investigation is into the origin of an instrument known almost exclusively by the ensemble compositions written in the 18th century by Joseph Haydn for his patron Prince Nicholas Esterhazy. Earlier work by Efrim Fruchtman (1960) had established the wider group of composers around Haydn at the Esterhazy Court. The work by Carol Gartrell (1983) established the known instruments and repertory for the baryton from the first quarter of the 17th century to the 20th century. From this study it was apparent that the 'classical' baryton of the Haydn/Esterhazy circle was an evolved instrument developed from an earlier period, repertory and mode of performance. The earlier form of the baryton is termed the baroque baryton to identify the original instrument presumed at the outset of this investigation to originate from the first quarter of the 17th century. The scope of this work is to identify and establish the origin, design, construction, and also repertory and performance practice of the original baryton. To this end as many barytons from the 17th century as possible were to be located, personally investigated, measured, recorded and photographed. A digital archive on 'photo CD' and an information database were created. The musical environment of the late 16th century was investigated to identify the musical and organological trends that led to the development of the baroque baryton which it is proposed resulted from a fusion of the bandora and the lyra viol in the first quarter of the 17th century. All compositions comprising the repertory of the baroque baryton were prepared in facsimile and instruments based on original research were commissioned. Recreation and evaluation of the original playing technique of the baroque baryton was made possible by performing the known repertory on the revived instruments. The majority of the works from the period were composed for a two manual, self-accompanying bowed and plucked, solo baryton but with some evidence of an early three-manual instrument. All the IX Partien of J.G.Krause and a representative range of all other compositions have been evaluated and performed to re-establish the playing technique, method of tone production and sound quality of the baroque baryton. The instrument, apart from this research study has remained unplayed from tablature in the correct tessituras in recent times.
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Parker, Mark M. (Mark Mason). "Transposition and the Transposed Modes in Late-Baroque France." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331880/.
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The purpose of the study is the investigation of the topics of transposition and the transposed major and minor modes as discussed principally by selected French authors of the final twenty years of the seventeenth century and the first three decades of the eighteenth. The sources are relatively varied and include manuals for singers and instrumentalists, dictionaries, independent essays, and tracts which were published in scholarly journals; special emphasis is placed on the observation and attempted explanation of both irregular signatures and the signatures of the minor modes. The paper concerns the following areas: definitions and related concepts, methods for singers and Instrumentalists, and signatures for the tones which were identified by the authors. The topics are interdependent, for the signatures both effected transposition and indicated written-out transpositions. The late Baroque was characterized by much diversity with regard to definitions of the natural and transposed modes. At the close of the seventeenth century, two concurrent and yet diverse notions were in evidence: the most widespread associated "natural" with inclusion within the gamme; that is, the criterion for naturalness was total diatonic pitch content, as specified by the signature. When the scale was reduced from two columns to a single one, its total pitch content was diminished, and consequently the number of the natural modes found within the gamme was reduced. An apparently less popular view narrowed the focus of "natural tone" to a single diatonic pitch, the final of the tone or mode. A number of factors contributed to the disappearance of the long-held distinction between natural and transposed tones: the linking of the notion of "transposed" with the temperament, the establishment of two types of signatures for the minor tones (for tones with sharps and flats, respectively), the transition from a two-column scale to a single-column one, and the recognition of a unified system of major and minor keys.
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Chung, Kyung-Young. "Reconsidering the Lament: Form, Content, and Genre in Italian Chamber Recitative Laments: 1600-1640." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4668/.
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Scholars have considered Italian chamber recitative laments only a transitional phenomenon between madrigal laments and laments organized on the descending tetrachord bass. However, the recitative lament is distinguished from them by its characteristic attitude toward the relationship between music and text. Composer of Italian chamber recitative laments attempted to express more subtle, refined and sometimes complicated emotion in their music. For that purpose, they intentionally created discrepancies between text and music. Sometimes they even destroy the original structure of text in order to clearly deliver the composer's own voice. The basic syntactic structure is deconstructed and reconstructed along with their reading and according to their intention. The discrepancy between text and music is, however, expectable and natural phenomena since text cannot be completely translated or transformed to music and vice versa. The composers of Italian chamber recitative laments utilized their innate heterogeneity between two materials (music and text) as a metaphor that represents the semantic essence of the genre, the conflict. In this context, Italian chamber recitative laments were a real embodiment of the so-called seconda prattica and through the study of them, finally, we more fully able to understand how the spirit of late Renaissance flourished in Italy in the first four decade of the seventeenth century.
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Menton, Allen Walter Menton Allen Walter. "Volume I. The persistent fantasy extended single-movement form in twentieth-century composition ; Volume II. Convivencia : a fantasy for guitar and string quartet /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1930284591&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Murphy, Liesel. "A critique of baroque performance practice with specific reference to the organ preludes and fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1023.
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This study aims to provide a critique of Baroque performance practice, with specific reference to the organ Preludes and Fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach. Drawing from the extensive body of literature pertaining to Bach’s keyboard music, a number of relevant issues are explored in so far as these may provide understanding of the manner in which the organ Preludes and Fugues should be performed today. These include: • The notion of Bach’s ‘generic’ keyboard works. Were the generic keyboard works as a whole intended to be performed on more than one keyboard instrument? The instrumental designations given by Bach in these works are a valuable source of information in answering this question. • The type of organ that was known to J.S. Bach and typical registration used in the Baroque, called the plenum. • Identification of the grey area that persists in the interpretation of Bach’s organ works with regard to registration, tempo, rhythm, articulation, phrasing, fingering and ornamentation. This study also engages with the current authenticity debate in musical performance as seen from the modernist and postmodernist points of view. The modernist ideal of authenticity is to “re-create” or “reconstruct” performances of Bach’s music with as much accuracy as the evidence of historical musicologists can provide. For the postmodernist, however, authenticity lies in embracing the human element of contingency in musical performance, along with a thorough grounding of such performance in historical evidence. In aligning itself with the postmodernist point of view, this study ultimately argues that we cannot learn everything there is to know about Baroque performance practice from books. Instead, in addition to historical evidence, we draw much of our understanding in this regard from our innate or tacit levels of knowing. In this regard the scholar of Bach’s organ works can draw valuable lessons from the levels of tacit knowledge of leading organ pedagogues and performers on the subject of Baroque performance practice.
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Kolb, Richard Edward. "Style in Mid-Seventeenth Century Roman Vocal Chamber Music: The Works of Antonio Francesco Tenaglia (c. 1615-1672/3)." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1270141838.
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Sandoval-Cisternas, Enrique. "A CRITICAL AND PERFORMANCE EDITION OF AGUSTIN BARRIOS’S CUECA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FORM, NOTATION, AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICE OF BARRIOS’S WORK TO TRADITIONAL CHILEAN CUECAS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/120.
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Agustin Barrios's guitar music has become increasingly popular over the last forty years. After his death, a revival of interest in his compositions began in the 1970s, motivated by a series of publications and recordings of his music by important guitar performers at that time. The most important of these recordings came from the Australian guitar performer John Williams, who was interviewed in 1976 by ABC Television Australia for a film about the Paraguayan composer. The next year, Williams recorded a collection of fifteen works in his album John Williams-Barrios: John Williams Plays the Music of Agustín Barrios Mangoré. After this, the published editions of Barrios's works have proliferated, many of these transcriptions of the composer's own recordings. However, the publication of differing transcriptions has led to a lack of authoritative editions, creating a confusing situation for performers. Therefore, this research intends to highlight the importance of making critical editions of Barrios's works based on folk music, using the Cueca as an example. This research offers an analysis and comparison of Chilean cuecas from the first half of the twentieth-century--the timeframe in which Barrios was in contact with this genre--to Barrios's Cueca. Second, it proposes a critical/performance edition of Barrios's work taking into account both the performance practice of traditional Chilean cuecas, and the two primary sources of this work: a handwritten manuscript and the composer's own recording. This research does not analyze nor compares the Argentinian and Bolivian versions of the cueca.
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Hagen, Emily. "Depicting Affect through Text, Music, and Gesture in Venetian Opera, c. 1640-1658." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157551/.
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Although early Venetian operas by composers such as Claudio Monteverdi and Francesco Cavalli offer today's listeners profound moments of emotion, the complex codes of meaning connecting emotion (or affect) with music in this repertoire are different from those of later seventeenth-century operatic repertoire. The specific textual and musical markers that librettists and composers used to indicate individual emotions in these operas were historically and culturally contingent, and many scholars thus consider them to be inaccessible to listeners today. This dissertation demonstrates a new analytical framework that is designed to identify the specific combinations of elements that communicate each lifelike emotion in this repertoire. Re-establishing the codes that govern the relationship between text, musical sound, and affect in this repertoire illuminates the nuanced emotional language of operas by composers such as Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, Antonio Cesti, and Francesco Lucio. The new analytical framework that underlies this study derives from analysis of seventeenth-century Venetian explanations and depictions of emotional processes, which reveal a basis in their society's underlying Aristotelian philosophy. Chapters III and IV examine extant documents from opera librettists, composers, audience members, and their associates to reveal how they understood emotions to work in the mind and body. These authors, many of whom were educated by Aristotelian scholars at the nearby University of Padua, understood action and emotion to be bound together in a reciprocal, causal relationship, and this synthesis was reflected in the way that they depicted affect in opera. It also guided the ways that singer-actors performed and audiences interpreted this music. In contrast, post-1660 Baroque operas from France and Italy express affect according to the musical conventions of the Doctrine of Affections (based in the ideas of René Descartes) and aim to present a single, clear emotion for each large semantic unit (recitative or aria). This paradigm does not hold true for operas composed before 1660; thus, this vibrant repertoire requires a new analytical approach that respects its pre-Cartesian musical aesthetics. Early Venetian opera composers express not just one, but many affects in each semantic unit. In their operas, musical sound interacts directly with text and dramatic action on a line-by-line basis to produce an unprecedented fluidity of emotional meaning. Chapter II describes a new analytical framework based in this understanding to reveal the means that librettists, composers, and performers used to communicate emotion in this repertoire. Chapters V through X contain hermeneutic and musical analyses (according to the method described in Chapter II) of case studies drawn from Venetian operas performed between 1640 and 1658. These chapters illustrate how this repertoire uses a flexible but well-defined system of musical and textual markers to convey characters' emotions. This new approach unlocks an aesthetic system that privileges the fluid, real-time emotional reactions of the individual in accordance with Aristotelian emotional understanding. In Chapters XI and XII, supporting information gleaned from seventeenth-century acting treatises, reception documents, and conduct books enables an examination of the singer's role in depicting these textual and musical representations of affect in performance. These two chapters address seventeenth-century views on affective communication through voice acting and physical gesture, together with recommendations for today's singers who perform this repertoire. In taking a systematic approach to the identification of specific textual, musical, and gestural means for communicating affect in early Venetian opera, this dissertation offers a new approach to analyzing and performing its dynamic emotional content.
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Giselbrecht, Elisabeth Anna. "Crossing boundaries : the printed dissemination of Italian sacred music in German-speaking areas (1580-1620)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283907.
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Daniel, Andrew. "Two Harpsichord Sonatas by Antonio Soler: Analysis and Transcription for Solo Guitar." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862826/.
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There is a puacity of original works from the Baroque Era for the guitar. Transcriptions, especially music originally for harpsichord, complement the guitarist's repertoire. Dominating the priviledged space in the guitar canon, represented by Baroque transcriptions, are the composers Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel and Domenico Scarlatti. Underrepresented in the Baroque guitar canon is the music of Spanish composers, most noteworthy, the harpsichordist Padre Antonio Soler, who composed more than 120 sonatas for his instrument. Music is culturally defined and it is clear, through an analysis of the keyboard works of Soler, that his music was imbued with the salient features of his place and time. There is an implicit connection between the guitar and the non-guitar music produced in Spain as guitar gestures are part of the national emblem; this study makes an explicit connection between the harpsichord music of Soler and the modern guitar. The Spanish Baroque style, epitomized by the works of Soler, provide a clear objective for transcription. The current study produces a transcription of Padre Antonio Soler's Sonata No. R.27 and Sonata No. R.100, as well as an analysis of the sonatas to facilitate interpretation for performance and an explanation of the transcription process. The lacunae of Spanish Baroque guitar transcriptions that exists in the repertoire will be partially filled by adding Soler to the distinguished list of composers that currently inhabit the guitarists's library.
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Caboverde, Enrique III. "A Graduate Guitar Recital Consisting of Works by Leo Brouwer and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco with Extended Program Notes." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/640.
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This thesis presents extended program notes for a recorded graduate classical guitar recital consisting of the following works for solo guitar with string quartet and chamber orchestra: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Quintet for Guitar and Strings, Op. 143; Leo Brouwer: Concerto No. 3 (“Elegiaco”). Both works are pioneering and invaluable contributions to guitar literature. Tedesco’s Quintet for Guitar and Strings, Op. 143 is the first quintet ever composed to properly showcase the virtuosity of the guitar within a chamber setting. Concerto “Elegiaco” demonstrates the refinement of Leo Brouwer’s use of post-modern tonality and minimalism within classical form, and showcases his unique compositional style.
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Rusak, Helen Kathryn. "Rhetoric and the motet passion." Title page, table of contents and introduction only, 1986. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armr949.pdf.
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Scarduelli, Fabio 1977. "A obra para violão solo de Almeida Prado." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285025.
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Previous issue date: 2007<br>Resumo: O compositor paulista Almeida Prado (1943) escreveu quatro peças para violão solo: Portrait (1972/75), Livro para seis cordas (1974), Sonata nº1 (1981) e Poesilúdios nº1 (1983). Trata-se de uma produção estilisticamente variada, que revela diferentes fases percorridas pelo autor. Assim, as peças da década de 70 giram em torno do atonalismo, primeiro em linguagem atonal-serial, e, a partir de 1974, transtonal. Este último conceito foi atribuído à linguagem pradeana pós-cartas celestes nº1, em que se mesclam elementos do discurso atonal, com a redundância e ressonâncias do tonalismo. Já a década de 80 marca um retorno ao uso de estruturas tradicionais, construídas sobre uma linguagem em que predominam elementos tonais e modais, numa madura e pessoal revisitação à fase guarnieriana. As peças de Almeida Prado apresentam ainda uma exeqüibilidade pouco comum para um compositor que não toca violão. A escolha dos modos e centros favorece um amplo uso de cordas soltas, e, inspirados em Villa-Lobos, efeitos e possibilidades próprias do instrumento são explorados na construção de motivos musicais. Partindo então do estudo de questões estéticas, estruturais e idiomáticas, o trabalho se fundamenta no intuito de elaborar, por fim, uma concepção interpretativa desta obra, que constitui uma considerável parcela do repertório do violão brasileiro<br>Abstract: The brazilian composer Almeida Prado (*1943) has written four pieces for solo guitar: Portrait (1972/75), Livro para seis cordas (1974), Sonata nº1 (1981) and Poesilúdios nº1 (1983). It is a production of varied styles, which reveals its author¿s different phases. So, the pieces of the 70s orbit around atonality, at first with an atonal-serial language, and, after 1974, transtonality. This last concept was attached to his post-cartas celestes 1 language, in which elements of an atonal discourse blends with tonal system¿s redundances and resonances. The decade of the 80s issues the return of traditional structures, built over a language filled with tonal and modal elements, attesting a mature and personal comeback to the Guarnierian phase. Almeida Prado¿s pieces also present an uncommon feasibility for a non-guitarist composer. The choice of modes and centers favors opens strings and, inspired by Villa-Lobos, effects and possibilities of the instrument are explored in the construction of musical motives. Taking this aesthetical, structural and idiomatical issues as starting points, this work intends to elaborate an interpretative conception of his works, which constitutes a considerable part of the brazilian guitar repertoire<br>Mestrado<br>Praticas Interpretativas<br>Mestre em Música
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Yoshioka, Masataka. "Singing the Republic: Polychoral Culture at San Marco in Venice (1550-1615)." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc33220/.
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During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Venetian society and politics could be considered as a "polychoral culture." The imagination of the republic rested upon a shared set of social attitudes and beliefs. The political structure included several social groups that functioned as identifiable entities; republican ideologies construed them together as parts of a single harmonious whole. Venice furthermore employed notions of the republic to bolster political and religious independence, in particular from Rome. As is well known, music often contributes to the production and transmission of ideology, and polychoral music in Venice was no exception. Multi-choir music often accompanied religious and civic celebrations in the basilica of San Marco and elsewhere that emphasized the so-called "myth of Venice," the city's complex of religious beliefs and historical heritage. These myths were shared among Venetians and transformed through annual rituals into communal knowledge of the republic. Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli and other Venetian composers wrote polychoral pieces that were structurally homologous with the imagination of the republic. Through its internal structures, polychoral music projected the local ideology of group harmony. Pieces used interaction among hierarchical choirs - their alternation in dialogue and repetition - as rhetorical means, first to create the impression of collaboration or competition, and then to bring them together at the end, as if resolving discord into concord. Furthermore, Giovanni Gabrieli experimented with the integration of instrumental choirs and recitative within predominantly vocal multi-choir textures, elevating music to the category of a theatrical religious spectacle. He also adopted and developed richer tonal procedures belonging to the so-called "hexachordal tonality" to underscore rhetorical text delivery. If multi-choir music remained the central religious repertory of the city, contemporary single-choir pieces favored typical polychoral procedures that involve dialogue and repetition among vocal subgroups. Both repertories adopted clear rhetorical means of emphasizing religious notions of particular political significance at the surface level. Venetian music performed in religious and civic rituals worked in conjunction with the myth of the city to project and reinforce the imagination of the republic, promoting a glorious image of greatness for La Serenissima.
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Sowle, Jennifer. "The castrato sacrifice was it justified /." Thesis, connect to online resource, 2006. http://www.unt.edu/etd/all/August2006/Open/sowle_jennifer_ruth/index.htm.
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Trilupaitienė, Jūratė. "XVI-XVII a. Lietuvos bažnytine muzyka: konfesiniu̜ sa̜jūdžiu̜ poveikis jos raidai [Lithuanian church musie of the 16th and 17 century: The influence of religious movements on its development] Habilitation, Vilnius 1999 [Zusammenfassung]." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-225381.
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The aim of the work is to shed light on the development of Lithuanian church music in the 16th and 17th century by c1arifying the influence of the reformation and the counter-reformation, and by researching Protestant and Catholic musical cultures.
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Treacy, Susan. "English Devotional Song of the Seventeenth Century in Printed Collections from 1638 to 1693: A Study of Music and Culture." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331253/.
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Seventeenth-century England witnessed profound historical, theological, and musical changes. A king was overthrown and executed; religion was practiced fervently and disputed hotly; and English musicians fell under the influence of the Italian stile nuovo. Many devotional songs were printed, among them those which reveal influences of this style. These English-texted sacred songs for one to three solo voices with continuo--not based upon a previously- composed hymn or psalm tune—are emphasized in this dissertation. Chapter One treats definitions, past neglect of the genre by scholars, and the problem of ambiguous terminology. Chapter Two is an examination of how religion and politics affected musical life, the hiatus from liturgical music from 1644 to 1660 causing composers to contribute to the flourishing of devotional music for home worship and recreation. Different modes of seventeenth-century devotional life are discussed in Chapter Three. Chapter Four provides documentation for use of devotional music, diaries and memoirs of the period revealing the use of several publications considered in this study. Baroque musical aesthetics applied to devotional song and its raising of the affections towards God are discussed in Chapter Five. Chapter Six traces the influence of Italian monody and sacred concerto on English devotional song. The earliest compositions by an Englishman working in the stile nuovo are Henry Lawes' 1638 hymn tunes with continuo. Collections of two- and three-voice compositions by Child, the Lawes brothers, Wilson, and Porter, published from 1639 to 1657, comprise Chapter Seven, as well as early devotional works of Locke. Chapter Eight treats Restoration devotional song-- compositions for one to three voices and continuo, mostly of a more secular and dramatic style than works discussed in earlier. The outstanding English Baroque composers--Locke, Humfrey, Blow, and Purcell--are represented, and the apex of this style is found in the latest seventeenth-century publication of devotional song, Henry Playford's Harmonia sacra, (1688, 1693).
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Chan, Tzu-Ying. "John Playford's The Division Violin: Improvisation and Variation Practice in English Violin Music of the Seventeenth Century." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011780/.
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English publisher John Playford (1623-1686/1687) first published his "The Division Violin: Containing a Collection of Divisions Upon Several Grounds for the Treble-Violin" in 1684. The first edition of this violin collection contains 26 written-out examples of improvisation, serving as a living snapshot of the performance practice of the time. This research is based on the second edition, which Playford had expanded into 30 pieces for the violin, published in 1685. The purpose of this study is to investigate the art of improvisation in England during the late 17th century, focusing on Playford's "The Division Violin." The dissertation first surveys the development of English violin music in the 17th century. Then, the dissertation traces eight selected 16th-century Italian diminution manuals. This will help readers understand the progression of the Italian diminution and improvisation practice in the 16th century and how it relates to the English division of the 17th century. Finally, based on a thorough research of the 17th-century improvisatory style and rhetorical approach, the author of this study provides performance suggestions on "Mr. Farinell's Ground," No. 5 from "The Division Violin."
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Nelson, Bernadette. "The integration of Spanish and Portuguese organ music within the liturgy from the latter half of the sixteenth to the eighteenth century." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b736ca8f-0bb7-47a4-9ac4-2102b6cc3acb.
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Spanish and Portuguese organ music still remains a relatively unchartered area escaping the attention of most general assessments of European musical history. The work which has been done in this field has tended towards stylistic appreciations of the published large-scale compositions and the compilation of short biographies of prominent musicians. No extensive investigation has yet been undertaken which deals with such fundamental issues as the role of the organist and the origins and function of the extant organ repertory, of which a large proportion lies dormant in manuscripts, within the liturgy. Indeed, there is no monograph about organists and organ music in the Iberian peninsula as a whole. The overall aim of this thesis is to provide a musical background and liturgical context for short organ pieces called <u>versos</u> which were thoroughly integrated within a musical celebration of the Offices. For this end, a variety of musical and documentary material has been examined: practical sources of organ music; plainchant manuals; ceremonials and musical treatises. To an enormous extent this organ music was subject to long-standing liturgical customs and legislation, as well as to strongly defined traditions of musical composition. The prescriptions to the organist given in the ecclesiastical constitutions and how these may have been realized in the Canonical Hours and in the Mass constitutes the essence of part two of this thesis. This interpretation of musico-liturgical practices has entailed an examination of the relationship between plainchant and the organ verset and the technicalities of mode and tranposition which were involved when alternating the organ with choral plainchant. An analysis is also made of the musical development of versets based on the psalm-tones, organ hymns (the <u>Pange lingua</u> in particular) and the 'organ mass'. An anthology of transcriptions complementing this discussion is contained in a separate volume. As a counterbalance to the analytical discussion in part two, part one provides an historical and cultural background to the subject. An assessment is made of the contribution made by individual organists and organ 'schools' and some consideration is made of the extent to which both royal and ecclesiastical patronage was responsible for the livelihood of music and the arts.
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Grobler, Marie. "The secular songs of John Blow (1649-1708) : an edition." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52023.
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Thesis (PhD) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2000.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The secular songs of John Blow (1649-1708): An Edition
The aim of this thesis is to assemble the 109 secular songs of John Blow in one
anthology, to transcribe them into modem notation and in doing so to make them
accessible for modem use and further research.
A significant feature of this collection is a group of 13 songs which have not been
printed previously and which are available only in manuscript form in special
collections in Great Britain. Other songs published during Blow's lifetime are
likewise found in special collections which are not accessible to the public. Many of
these songs are hard to decipher because of ageing. In some cases the paper is so thin
that the notes show through from the back to the detriment of readibility. Where the
manuscripts as well as contemporary publications exist, significant comparisons could
be made, e.g. with In vain, brisk God of Love (vol. 2: 147) where the MUMS 118
manuscript could be compared with the published version in Choice Ayres and Songs
printed by Godbid and Playford (jnr) in 1683.
An important 'discovery' was finding that an autograph manuscript, Ah me, undone!
(Lhl Add. 31457), does not comprise an individual song as listed by Watkins Shaw
(1980), but an excerpt from the song Happy the Man who languishing (1700). This
made it possible to compare an original manuscript by Blow with a publication of the
same song by Playford.
The 20th century has seen renewed interest in Blow's work: Frederick George
Edwards (1902) and William Cummings (1908), in particular, started this revival in
interest. Harold Watkins Shaw took the lead from 1936 and Leland Clarke (1947) was
responsible for the next phase. Since 1975, Bruce Wood has been the main researcher
of Blow's anthems. Anthony Rooley, director of the Consort of Musicke in London
and Peter Holman, director of the Parley of Instrument, have contributed greatly to
the recent (1987-1999) revival of interest in Blow's music with their performances
and recordings making use of original instruments. This thesis, as well as my Master's
thesis (Grobler 1993), forms part of the most recent stage of research into Blow's
works.
Volume 1:
In the first chapter of the thesis the secular song of the English Restoration (1660-
1714) is presented in perspective. Blow's stylistic characteristics as they manifest
themselves in his secular songs are discussed. The criticism that this style evoked
from music critics through the years, especially Charles Burney (1726-1814), is put into historical perspective. Stylistic characteristics of the song, the influence of French
and Italian vocal music, as well as the strong influence of Charles II's preferences on .
court composers' music, are highlighted. The function of the song in Restoration
society is discussed.
In the second chapter Blow's contribution to the different song types are discussed in
detail: the solo songs, songs for two voices and dialogues, songs for more than two
voices and songs for incidental theatre music.
The editorial process followed in transcribing the songs is explained. This is based on
the methods suggested in Caldwell (1985) and described in the Musica Britannica. A
discussion of the performing practice of the song contributes towards understanding
the Restoration song.
The textual commentary deals with aspects, such as notation and provides more
information about the manuscripts and publications which form the basis of this
investigation. A systematic index of sources and songs is provided.
Volume 2:
In this volume the 109 songs are presented chronologically in modem edited form.
The songs reflect the original manuscript or publication as clearly as possible; old
English spelling has been retained but archaic English letter forms have been
modernised. Clef signs, time signatures, and key signatures, as well as accidentals,
have been used according to modem practice. The figured bass is given as featured in
the sources and is not realised or expanded.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die sekulêre liedere van John Blow (1649-1708): 'n edisie
Die hoofdoel van die proefskrif is om John Blow se 109 sekulêre liedere toeganklik te
maak vir uitvoerings- en navorsingsdoeleindes deur hulle vir die eerste keer as een
versameling bymekaar te bring, getranskribeer in moderne musieknotasie.
Van besondere belang is die insluiting van dertien van Blow se liedere wat nog nie
voorheen gepubliseer is nie en slegs in manuskripvorm in spesiale versamelings in
Engeland beskikbaar is, en liedere wat wel tydens Blow se lewe gepubliseer is, maar
eweneens nie toeganklik is vir die algemene publiek nie. Die leesbaarheid van
sommige liedere word bemoeilik as gevolg van die ouderdom en toestand van die
papier. In 'n paar gevalle is die papier so dun dat die agterste notebeeld deurslaan en
die leesbaarheid erg belemmer.
Waar 'n manuskrip en kontemporêre weergawe van 'n lied bestaan, kon betekenisvolle
vergelykings getref word.
'n Belangrike 'ontdekking' wat gemaak is, is dat die outograaf-manuskrip vanAh me,
Undone (Lbl Add. 31457) nie 'n afsonderlike lied is soos wat Watkins Shaw (1980)
dit gelys het nie, maar 'n gedeelte is van die lied Happy the man, who languishing
(1700). Dit maak dit moontlik om in dié een geval Blow se oorspronklike komposisie
te vergelyk met Playford se gepubliseerde weergawe daarvan.
Dit is eers gedurende die twintigste eeu dat belangstelling in Blow se
musiekgeleidelik begin posvat het. Frederick George Edwards (1902) en veral
William Cummings (1909) het 'n belangrike rol in die Blow-herlewing gespeel.
Harold Watkins Shaw neem vanaf 1936 die leiding met Leland Clarke (1949), 'n
Amerikaner, wat die die volgende fase verteenwoordig. Bruce Wood staan vanaf 1975
aan die voorpunt met sy navorsing oor Blow se Anthems. Anthony Rooley, direkteur
van die Consort of Musicke in Londen asook Peter Holman, direkteur van die Parley
of Instruments het vanaf 1987 met hulle uitvoerings en opnames 'n groot rol gespeel
om Blow se musiek weer aan die publiek bekend te stel. Hierdie tesis, asook my
Magister-verhandeling (Grobler 1993) vorm ook deel van hierdie nuwe belangstelling
in Blowen Engelse Restourasie-musiek.
Volume 1:
In die eerste hoofstuk word die sekulêre lied van die Engelse Restourasie-era (1660-
1714) in perspektief geplaas. Saam met 'n bespreking oor bydraes van John Blow, Henry Purcell en hulle tydgenote tot die genre, word die ontwikkeling van die lied en
uitvoeringspraktyke daarvan krities ondersoek. Terselfdertyd word insae verkry in die'
tydgenootlike liedpublikasies in Engeland gedurende die laat 17de en vroeg 18de eeu.
Daarna volg 'n bespreking van Blow se styleienskappe soos dit veral in die sekulêre
lied manifesteer. Kritiek wat Blow se werkswyse deur die eeue van musiek-kritici
soos bv. Charles Burney (1726-1814) uitgelok het, word in historiese perspektief
geplaas.
Blow se bydrae tot die verskillende liedtipes word breedvoerig bespreek: die sololied,
die twee-stemmige lied en dialogue, die lied vir meer as twee stemme en die lied as
bykomstige teatermusiek. Die styleienskappe van hierdie liedere, die invloed van die
Franse en Italiaanse vokale komposisies en die sterk invloed wat Charles II se voorkeure
op die hofkomponiste se musiek gehad het, word uitgewys. Die funksie van die
lied in die destydse samelewing kom ook onder die loep.
Die redaksionele werkswyse wat gevolg is met die transkribering van die liedere is
gebaseer op moderne benaderings tot dié veld soos Caldwell (1985) dit voorstaan en
toegepas word in die Musica Britannica (1953, 1993, 1996). 'n Bespreking oor die
uitvoeringspraktyk van die lied wil 'n bydrae lewer tot die begrip van die term 'Song'
soos dit in die Restourasie-tydperk verstaan is.
Die tekstuele kommentaar lig aspekte soos notasie in die liedere uit en gee toeligting
oor manuskripte en publikasies wat die ondersoek ten grondslag lê. Ten slotte word al
109liedere, asook liedmusiek, en -publikasies in 'n sistematiese indeks saamgevat.
Volume 2:
In dié volume verskyn die 109 sekulêre liedere chronologies in moderne geredigeerde
vorm. Die liedere word sover moontlik weergegee soos dit in die oorspronklike
manuskripte en publikasies voorkom: die ouer Engelse spelling word behou maar
argaïese lettervorme is gemoderniseer. Sleuteltekens, tydmaattekens, toonsoorttekens
en skuiftekens is in ooreenstemming met huidige praktyke. Die besyferde bas IS
weergegee soos dit in die bronne voorkom, en is nie aangevul of gerealiseer nie.
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Yates, Stanley. "The baroque guitar, late Spanish style as represented by Santiago de Murcia in the Salvidar manuscript (1732) with three recitals of selected works by Bach, Rak, Brouwer, Hummel, Gnattali and others /." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/42757580.html.
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Cichy, Andrew Stefan. "'How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?' : English Catholic music after the Reformation to 1700 : a study of institutions in Continental Europe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0bdfe9b2-b5c6-48fe-a565-ddb699b72312.
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Research on English Catholic Music after the Reformation has focused almost entirely on a small number of Catholic composers and households in England. The music of the English Catholic colleges, convents, monasteries and seminaries that were established in Continental Europe, however, has been almost entirely overlooked. The chief aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the musical practices of these institutions from the Reformation until 1700, in order to arrive at a clearer understanding of the nature of music in the post-Reformation English Catholic community. To this end, four institutions have been selected to serve as case studies: 1. The Secular English College, Douai. 2. St Alban’s College, Valladolid. 3. The Benedictine Monastery of Our Lady of the Assumption, Brussels. 4. The Augustinian Monastery of Our Lady of Nazareth, Bruges. The music of these institutions is evaluated in two ways: firstly, as a means of constructing, reflecting and forming English Catholic identity, and secondly, in terms of the range of influences (both English and Continental) that shaped its stylistic development. The thesis concludes that as a result of the peculiarly domestic nature of religious practice among Catholics in England, and interactions with Continental Catholicism, the aesthetic and ideological bases for English Catholic music were markedly different from those of its Protestant counterpart. The marked influence of Italianate styles on the sacred music of English Catholic composers and institutions in exile demonstrates a simultaneous process of cultural alignment with the aesthetic and theological principles of the Counter-Reformation, and dissociation from those of English Protestantism. Finally, it is clear that music was an important formational tool in both the seminaries and convents, where it shaped both community and self-identity, and created affinities with the locales in which these institutions were situated – although it is also clear that these uses of music had the potential to conflict.
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Alves, Simao Joana Luis. "The Villancicos de Negro in Manuscript 50 of the Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra: A Case Study of Black Cultural Agency and Racial Representation in 17th-Century Portugal." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1483636386001958.
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King, Deborah Simpkin. "The Full Anthems and Services of John Blow and the Question of an English Stile Antico." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332091/.
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John Blow (1649-1708) was among the first group of boys pressed into the service of King Charles II, following the decade of Puritan rule. Blow would make compositional efforts as early as 1664 and, at the age of nineteen, began to assume professional positions within the London musical establishment, ultimately becoming, along with his pupil and colleague, Henry Purcell, London's foremost musician. Restoration sacred music is generally thought of in connection with the stile nuovo which, for the first time, came to be a fully accepted practice among English musicians for the church. But the English sacred polyphonic art, little threatened by England's largely political Reformation, embodied sufficient flexibility as to allow it to absorb new ideas, thereby remaining vital well into the seventeenth century. Preserved from decisive Italian influences by the Interregnum, the English sacred polyphonic tradition awoke at the Restoration full of potential for continuing creative activity. In addition to studying Blow's polyphonic compositions, including the transcription of several not available in modern edition, this paper seeks to address the unique nature of the English polyphonic tradition which allowed it to retain its vitality throughout the seventeenth century, while other polyphonic traditions were succumbing to the ossifying influences of the stile antico concept. Identification of the Continental stile antico through pertinent treatises and scores revealed a marked distinction between its application and the English polyphonic art as seen in the work of John Blow. In the end, the peculiar nature of Restoration polyphony is seen to be derived from a number of factors, among them, the continuation of liturgical ceremonial within the independent English church, the flexibility of the English polyphonic medium with regard to new musical developments, and the interruption of England's cathedral music tradition just as Italian influence was beginning to be felt in liturgical music. The sacred polyphony of John Blow represents the last great flowering of the English polyphonic tradition, with all of its idiosyncracies, in a lively, as yet unfettered style.
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Trilupaitienė, Jūratė. "XVI-XVII a. Lietuvos bažnytine muzyka: konfesiniu̜ sa̜jūdžiu̜ poveikis jos raidai [Lithuanian church music of the 16th and 17 century: The influence of religious movements on its development] Habilitation, Vilnius 1999 [Zusammenfassung]." Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die Musikgeschichte in Mittel- und Osteuropa an der Universität Leipzig, 1999. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15666.
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The aim of the work is to shed light on the development of Lithuanian church music in the 16th and 17th century by c1arifying the influence of the reformation and the counter-reformation, and by researching Protestant and Catholic musical cultures.