Music of the Renaissance
Imagination and Reality of a Cultural Practice
1st Edition
Published on 12. February 2019
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-0-520-29790-6 (ISBN)
Description
Where previous accounts of the Renaissance have not fully acknowledged the role that music played in this decisive period of cultural history, Laurenz Luetteken merges historical music analysis with the analysis of the other arts to provide a richer context for the emergence and evolution of creative cultures across civilizations. This fascinating panorama foregrounds music as a substantial component of the era and considers musical works and practices in a wider cultural-historical context. Among the topics surveyed are music's relationship to antiquity, the position of music within systems of the arts, the emergence of the concept of the musical work, as well as music's relationship to the theory and practice of painting, literature, and architecture. What becomes clear is that the Renaissance gave rise to many musical concepts and practices that persist to this day, whether the figure of the composer, musical institutions, and modes of musical writing and memory.
Reviews / Votes
"Music of the Renaissance is a fascinating discourse on the cultural and aesthetic relationships that characterize musical thought and practice from roughly the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. ...It is a brilliant piece of work that packs a world of information into a relatively slim volume. Highly recommended." * Journal of the Anglican Association of Musicians * "The vast scope of the study and the short length of the book mean that we are presented with various tantalizing snapshots of a rich musical culture that connects more broadly with the liberal arts." * European History Quarterly * "Unlike traditional histories of music IN the Renaissance, this stud of music OF the Renaissance eschews the detailed and comprehensive examination of the oeuvres of individual composers, the development of different genres and the identification of musical styles in favour of attempting to understand how musical production and practice "fits" or meshes with general artistic expression and tendencies of the period. . . . Music of the Renaissance is highly recommended reading for anyone with an interest in cultural creativity and activity in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries." * Revue de Musicologie *More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
32
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-29790-6 (9780520297906)
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E-Book
02/2019
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
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Persons
Laurenz Luetteken is Professor of Musicology at the University of Zurich. He is is general editor of MGG Online and the author of Richard Strauss: Musik der Moderne and Mozart: Leben und Musik im Zeitalter der Aufklaerung.
Content
Foreword by Christopher Reynolds
Preface
Chapter 1 * The Era and Its Terms
Chapter 2 * Social Reality and Cultural Interaction
Chapter 3 * Text and Texts
Chapter 4 * Forms of Perception
Chapter 5 * Memoria
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Chapter 1 * The Era and Its Terms
Chapter 2 * Social Reality and Cultural Interaction
Chapter 3 * Text and Texts
Chapter 4 * Forms of Perception
Chapter 5 * Memoria
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index