Renaissance and Baroque music : a comprehensive survey

Renaissance and Baroque music : a comprehensive survey / Friedrich Blume ; translated by M. D. Herter Norton.

Author/creator	Blume, Friedrich, 1893-1975
Format	Book and Print
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	New York : W. W. Norton, [1967]
Description	ix, 180 pages ; 22 cm
Subject(s)	Music--History and criticism --16th century. Music--History and criticism --17th century. Music--History and criticism --18th century.

Contents	Renaissance music. The idea of "renaissance" ; Music as understood by the Renaissance ; "Renaissance" as a period in music history ; South and north : the nations and the types of composition ; The musical achievement of the Renaissance -- Baroque music. The term "Baroque" as applied to music ; Introduction of the word "Baroque" into the writing of music history ; The meaning of the word "Baroque" in music ; The synchronism of the arts ; Fitness and need of the word "Baroque" in music history ; Style, form, and expressive means in Baroque music. The heteronomy of Baroque music its rhetoric ; Academicism meter and chromaticism ; Retardative elements the classicistic undercurrent ; Meaningful music ; Counterpoint ; Style consciousness and idiom ; The blending of styles the Gesamtkunstwerk ; The technique of composition bas and chord from modality to tonality consonance and dissonance ; From tactus to measure tempo and rhythm ; Forms and the feeling for form -- Delimitation and organization of the Baroque in music ; Nation and society in the music of the Baroque.
Bibliography note	Bibliography: pages 166-170.
LCCN	65013323

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Music	Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk	ML160.B655 R5 1967	✔ Available	Place Hold