Renaissance Reform Of Medieval Music Theory: Guido of Arezzo between Myth and History - Softcover

Mengozzi, Stefano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107442575 ISBN 13: 9781107442573

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Mengozzi demonstrates how scholasticism and humanism played a decisive role in shaping the history of hexachordal solmization, a sight-singing method introduced by the 11th-century monk Guido of Arezzo. The book will be of interest to early-modern specialists interested in exploring medieval and Renaissance musical thought in its intellectual context.

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'While even musicologists familiar with the subject may find the history of musical theories in the first part of the text a challenge, the undaunted reader will find rewards in the later chapters.' Susan Forscher Weiss, The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

'It is an ambitious, thought-provoking study of an important topic within a milieu that was full of controversy, transition, and renegotiation, brought to the fore here with much insight.' Nancy van Deusen, Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory

Reseña del editor:

Modern scholars have often portrayed the method of hexachordal solmization - the sight-singing method introduced by the 11th-century monk Guido of Arezzo - as the diatonic foundation of early music. Stefano Mengozzi challenges this view by examining a representative sample of the primary sources of solmization theory from Guido of Arezzo to Gioseffo Zarlino. These texts show that six-syllable solmization was only an option for sight-singing that never imposed its operational 'sixth-ness' onto the diatonic system, already grounded on the seven pitch letters. It was primarily through the agency of several 'classicizing' theorists of the humanist era that the six syllables came to be mistakenly conceived as a fundamental diatonic structure - a 'hexachord' built from the 'tetrachord' of the Ancient Greeks. The book will be of particular interest to readers seeking to deepen their knowledge of medieval and Renaissance musical thought with an eye to major intellectual trends of the time.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107442575
• ISBN 13: 9781107442573
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 306