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Music and riddle culture in the Renaissance /
This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the Renaissance.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Table of contents
- List of plates
- List of figures
- List of music examples
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- List of manuscript sigla
- List of printed music
- Introduction
- 1 The culture of the enigmatic from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance
- Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Riddles in the Renaissance
- The discourse on obscurity
- Obscurity in rhetoric
- Causes of obscurity
- 'Allegoria, quae est obscurior': the riddle as trope
- Deliberate obscurity
- Docta obscuritas
- Influences of Augustine
- Positive resonances in the Renaissance
- 2 Devising musical riddles in the Renaissance
- The message of the notation
- Why obscurity? The musical riddle in context
- Techniques of transformation
- Imitation and transposition
- Retrograde and inversion
- Note values
- Substitution
- Rearrangement
- Extraction
- Omission
- Addition
- Enigmatic inscriptions
- Sources, language and form
- Dark hints
- Addressing the performer
- Riddles and their resolutio
- 'Non lo poterno mai cantare': in search of a resolutio
- Wrong solutions
- Multiple solutions
- Written-out solutions
- In search of the riddle
- 3 The reception of the enigmatic in music theory
- Theorists in favour of riddles
- 'Ad ingenia subtilianda et acuenda': Bartolomeus Ramis de Pareia
- 'Regula argutè revelans secreta cantus': Hermann Finck
- 'Para sutillizar el ingenio de los estudiosos': Pietro Cerone
- 'Diventar più segnalato, perfetto, e singolare': Lodovico Zacconi
- Critical voices
- On obscurity, errors and youthful indiscretion
- 'Prout ipse voluerit': Pietro Aaron on the randomness of obscurity and clarity
- Sebald Heyden and the search for clarity.
- In the aftermath of Heyden: 'na certan rewill may be gevin', or the uniqueness of riddles and the invention of inscriptions
- Ostentatio ingenii: Heinrich Glarean on the 'flaunting of genius'
- The Italian stance: Vicentino, Zarlino, Galilei and Tigrini
- Once more: mensural intricacies
- Towards a philosophical foundation: the hierarchy of the senses
- Riddles and images
- The performer
- Second-guessing: on prophets, astrologists and chimeras
- Conclusions
- 4 Riddles visualised
- Introduction: visual poetry
- visual music
- Geometrical figures: the circle
- Religious symbols: the cross
- Music and nature: the lunar cycle
- Rebus, cryptography and chronogram
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 A brief introduction to mensural notation
- Appendix 2 Catalogue of enigmatic canonic inscriptions
- Index to the catalogue of enigmatic canonic inscriptions
- Bibliography
- Primary sources
- Secondary literature
- Index of compositions
- General index.