The Practica musicae of Franchinus Gafurius / Translated and edited with musical transcriptions by Irwin Young.
| Author/creator | Gaffurius, Franchinus |
| Other author | Young, Irwin, translator, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. |
| Description | xxxvii, 273 pages : facsimiles, music ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The system of Guido and the church modes. The system necessary to the practice of music ; The syllabic names of the notes and their intervals ; The clefs and the naming of the notes ; The proprieties and mutations of the vocables ; The consonance of the diatessaron and its species ; The diapente consonance and its species ; The diapason consonance and its species ; The different characteristics of the modes and the formation of the first mode ; The formation of the second mode ; The tonal structure of the third mode ; The tonal structure of the fourth mode ; The composition of the fifth mode ; The tonal structure of the sixth mode ; The structure of the seventh mode ; The composition of the eighth mode -- The mensural system. Poets and musicians settled on a short and a long as the measure of time in the voice ; Various characters of the ancients and their measurement ; A discussion of the five essential characters. The shorter notes. Ligatures ; Rests ; Mode ; Tempus ; Prolation ; The parts of notes -- The imperfection of notes. Alteration ; Diminution ; Syncopation -- The art of counterpoint. Counterpoint and its basic species ; The nature and the naming of the contrapuntal species ; The eight mandates or rules of counterpoint ; Which discords ought to be permitted in counterpoint and where ; The agreeable sweetness of the fourth ; Why the fourth is concordant between a middle and a higher sound and discordant between a middle and a lower sound ; The conformity and diversity of the third and the sixth ; The naming of the pitch extremities in concordances ; How the various elements of counterpoint are arranged by the alternate raising and lowering of species ; The notational diversity of sounds in counterpoint ; The composition of the different parts of counterpoint ; Similar perfect concordances permitted in succession in counterpoint ; The counterpoint of Musica Ficta ; False counterpoint ; How a singer ought to behave when he performs -- Proportion in mensural music. The definition and differentiation of proportion -; The five proportional genera of major and minor inequality ; The multiple genus and its species ; The first genus of minor inequality, the submultiple, and its species ; The superparticular genus and its species ; The subsuperparticular genus and its species ; The superpartient genus and its species ; The subsuperpartient genus and its species ; The multiple superparticular genus and its species ; The submultiple superparticular genus and its species ; The multiple superpartient genus and its species ; The submultiple superpartient genus and its species ; The conjunction of several dissimilar proportions ; The proportions nuturing musical consonances ; The production of multiple proportions from multiples in superparticulars. |
| General note | "The present edition of the Practica is based upon the original edition published in Milan in 1496." |
| LCCN | 69016113 |
| ISBN | 0299051803 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML171.G12 P73 1969 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |