| Contents |
Part I. Plainchant. The performance of plainchant: some preliminary observations of the new era / Lance W. Brunner (Early Music, 19, 1982) ; Giving voice to Gregorian chant, or, Coping with modern orthodoxies / Katarina Livljanić (Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis, 26, 2002) -- Part II. Secular monophony. Rhythm, meter, and melodic organization in medieval songs / Hans Tischler (Revue belge de musicologie, 28-30, 1974-1976) ; The 'not-so-precisely measured' music of the middle ages / Hendrik van der Werf (Performance Practice Review, 1, 1988) ; Voices and instruments in medieval French secular music: on the use of literary texts as evidence for performance practice / Sylvia Huot (Musica Disciplina, 43, 1989) ; Johannes de Grocheio on secular music: a corrected text and a new translation / Christopher Page (Plainsong and Medieval Music, 2, 1993) -- Part III. Polyphony to 1300. The performance of Parisian organum / Edward Roesner (Early Music, 7, 1979) ; Franco of Cologne on the rhythm of organum purum / Charles M. Atkinson (Early Music History, 9, 1989) ; The copula according to Johannes de Garlandia / Jeremy Yudkin (Musica Disciplina, 34, 1980) ; Conductus and modal rhythm / Ernest H. Sanders (Journal of the American Musicological Society, 38, 1985) ; The performance of ars antiqua motets / Christopher Page (Early Music, 16, 1988) -- Part IV. Mass and motet after 1300. Representations of the mass in medieval and renaissance art / James W. McKinnon (Journal of the American Musicological Society, 31, 1978) ; The performing ensemble for English church polyphony, ca. 1320-c. 1390 / Roger Bowers (In Studies in the Performance of Late Mediaeval Music, 1983) ; Text underlay in early fifteenth-century musical manuscripts / Gilbert Reaney (In Essays in Musicology in Honor of Dragan Plamenac on His 70th Birthday, 1969) -- Part V. The polyphonic chanson. Machaut's "pupil" Deschamps on the performance of music: voices or instruments in the 14th-century chanson / Christopher Page (Early Music, 5, 1977) ; The performance of songs in late medieval France: a new source / Christopher Page (Early Music, 10, 1982) ; Texting in 15th-century French chansons: a look ahead from the 14th century / Lawrence Earp (Early Music, 19, 1991) ; Embellishment and urtext in the fifteenth-century song repertories / David Fallows (Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis, 14, 1990) -- Part VI. Other matters. Musica recta and musica ficta / Margaret Bent (Musica Disciplina, 26, 1972) ; The origin and early history of proportion signs / Anna Maria Busse Berger (Journal of the American Musicological Society, 41, 1988) ; Jerome of Moravia on the rubeba and viella / Christopher Page (Galpin Society Journal, 32, 1979) ; The 'Arabian influence' thesis revisited / Shai Burstyn (Current Musicology, 46, 1990). |
| Abstract |
Almost a thousand years of music are treated in this volume on the performance practice of the Middle Ages, covering monophony and polyphony, sacred and secular, genre and theory. The essays selected deal with the most crucial of performers' decisions: pitch, rhythm, and performing forces, as well as related matters such as proportions, tunings, and the need for ornamentation. The introduction provides an overview of the major issues and resources, situating medieval music within the context of the early music revival and the debate on authenticity and providing an extended bibliography of relevant scholarship. |
