Medieval polyphony and song / Helen Deeming, Frieda van der Heijden.
- 作者： Deeming, Helen.
- 其他作者：
- 其他題名：
- Cambridge introductions to music
- 出版： New York, NY : Cambridge University Press c2023.
- 叢書名： Cambridge introductions to music
- 主題： Vocal music.--500-1400--History and criticism. , Music--500-1400--History and criticism.
- ISBN： 9781316601495 (pbk.) 、 9781107151161 (hbk.) 、 9781316584781 (ebk.)
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index. Discography: p. 235-237.
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讀者標籤：
- 系統號： 005152170 | 機讀編目格式
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摘要註
"This book is about the music composed for singers during the long period of Europe's history that we now call the Middle Ages, or 'medieval' period (from the Latin medium - 'middle', and aevum - 'age/era'). Though it by no means encompasses all vocal music from this period, the music explored in this book embraces a dazzling variety of sounds, including compositions of monumental scope and complexity, matched to the architectural splendour of the Gothic churches and cathedrals in which they were performed, as well as some of the most poignant songs of love and loss ever to have been written. This book aims to give an overview of where and when the different kinds of medieval polyphony and song emerged, who was responsible for composing them, singing them and writing them down, and the kinds of functions - in churches and monasteries, royal and aristocratic courts, universities, and other urban institutions - that they were created to serve"--
內容註
Introduction and Historical Outline -- Monastic Centres in the Early Middle Ages -- Court and Cloister in Aquitaine and Occitania -- City, Cathedral, and University in Paris -- Courts and Cities in Northern France -- Scribes, Scholars, and Secretaries in Fourteenth-Century France -- England After the Norman Conquest -- On The Shores of the Mediterranean : Italy, Sicily, and the Iberian Peninsula -- The German- and Dutch-Speaking Lands -- Medievalisms : Modern Encounters with Medieval Polyphony and Song.