Renaissance Polyphony
- Author: Fitch, Fabrice
By combining solid musicology with an engaging sense of history as detective process, this book earns its place in a crowded field —
Book
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Contents
- 1. Introducing Renaissance Polyphony;
- 2. Making Polyphony: Sources and Practice;
- 3. Makers of Polyphony;
- 4. Pitch: An Overview;
- 5. Voice-names, Ranges, and Functions;
- 6. Mensural Notation, Duration, and Meter;
- 7. Genre, Texts, Form;
- 8. 'Cantus magnus': Music for the Mass;
- 9. 'Cantus mediocris': The Motet;
- 10. 'Cantus parvus': Secular Music;
- 11. Scoring, Texture, Scale;
- 12. Understanding Musical Borrowing;
- 13. Canons, Puzzles, Games;
- 14. Performance Practice: A Brief Introduction.