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Music in the culture of the Renaissance and other essays / Edward E. Lowinsky ; edited and with an introduction by Bonnie J. Blackburn ; with forewords by Howard Mayer Brown and Ellen T. Harris.

Author/creator Lowinsky, Edward E. (Edward Elias), 1908-1985
Other author/creatorBlackburn, Bonnie J., editor, writer of introduction.
Other author/creatorBrown, Howard Mayer, writer of foreword.
Other author/creatorHarris, Ellen T., writer of foreword.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Description2 volumes (xxi, 993 pages) : illustrations (some color), music ; 31 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Foreword / Howard Mayer Brown -- Foreword / Ellen T. Harris -- Introduction / Bonnie J. Blackburn -- Part I. Music and the history of ideas. Music history and its relation to the history of ideas ; The concept of physical and musical space in the Renaissance (a preliminary sketch) ; Music in the culture of the Renaissance ; Musical genius: evolution and origins of a concept ; Taste, style, and ideology in eighteenth-century music ; Music of the Renaissance as viewed by Renaissance musicians ; The problem of mannerism in music: an attempt at a definition ; Humanism in the music of the Renaissance -- Part II. Musical iconography. The Goddess Fortuna in music, with a special study of Josquin's Fortuna d'un gran tempo ; Matthaeus Greiter's Fortuna: an experiment in chromaticism and in musical iconography ; The music in Carpaccio's "St. Jerome's Study" ; Problems in Adrian Willaert's iconography ; Ockeghem's Canon for Thirty-Six Voices: an essay in musical iconography ; Music in Titian's Bacchanal of the Andrians: origin and history of the Canon per tonos ; Jan van Eyck's Tymotheos: sculptor or musician? With an investigation of the autobiographic strain in French poetry from Rutebeuf to Villon -- Part III. The sixteenth-century motet. Orlando di Lasso's Antwerp Motet Book and its relationship to the contemporary Netherlandish motet ; A newly discovered sixteenth-century motet manuscript at the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome ; A music book for Anne Boleyn -- Part IV. Josquin des Prez. Helmuth Osthoff's Josquin monograph ; Josquin des Prez and Ascanio Sforza ; Ascanio Sforza's life: a key to Josquin's biography and an aid to the chronology of his works ; Ludovico il Moro's visit to the Abbey of Chiaravalle in 1497: a report to Ascanio Sforza -- Part V. Cipriano de Rore as court composer: Ferrara and Munich. Cipriano de Rore's Venus Motet: its poetic and pictorial sources ; Calami sonum ferentes: a new interpretation ; Two motets and two madrigals for the Este family ; Rore's New Year's gift for Albrecht V of Bavaria -- Part VI. Musica ficta. The function of conflicting signatures in early polyphonic music ; Conflicting views on conflicting signatures ; Adrian Willaert's chromatic "Duo" reexamined ; Echoes of Adrian Willaert's chromatic "Duo" in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century compositions ; The musical avant-garde of the Renaissance: or, the peril and profit of foresight ; Secret chromatic art reexamined ; Musica ficta in the Josquin edition -- Part VII. The compositional process. On the use of scores by sixteenth-century musicians ; Early scores in manuscripts ; English organ music of the Renaissance ; A treatise on text underlay by a German disciple of Francisco de Salinas ; Canon technique and simultaneous conception in fifteenth-century music: a comparison of north and south ; On Mozart's rhythm -- Part VIII. Views and reviews. Secret chromatic art in the Netherlands Motet: a reply ; Renaissance writings on music theory ; On the presentation and interpretation of evidence: another review of Costanzo Festa's biography ; Character and purposes of American musicology: a reply to Joseph Kerman.
Abstract The 43 writings gathered finally make available in one place Lowinsky's major essays--including four previously unpublished ones--in two volumes that are lavishly provided with musical examples and illustrations.
Bibliography note"Bibliography of the writings of Edward E. Lowinsky": volume 2, pages 965-969.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 88004869
ISBN0226494780

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