German Instrumental Music of the Late Middle Ages Players, Patrons and Performance Practice

Name: German Instrumental Music of the Late Middle Ages Players, Patrons and Performance Practice
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ISBN: 9780521612029

ISBN-10: 0521612020

ISBN-13: 9780521612029

Edition: 2004

Authors: Keith Polk, John Butt, Laurence Dreyfus

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This book describes instrumental music and its context in German society of the late middle ages - from about 1350 to 1520. Players at that time improvised, much like jazz musicians of our day, but because they did not use notated music, only scant remnants of their activity have survived in written sources, and much has been left obscure. This book attempts to reconstruct an image of their music, discussing the instruments, ensembles, and performance practices of the time. What emerges from this study is a fundamental reappraisal of late medieval culture. A musical life is reconstructed which was not only extraordinary in its own time, but which also laid the foundations of an artistic…

Book details

List price: $60.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/9/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.76" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Laurence Dreyfus is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College.



List of illustrations


List of tables


Preface and acknowledgements


List of abbreviations


Note on the music examples and German text



Germany and instrumental music in the Late Middle Ages



German soft music, the instruments and ensembles



German loud music, the instruments and ensembles



The patrons: music in German courts



The patrons: music in German cities



The sources and the written repertory of instrumental polyphony



Approaches to instrumental performance practice: models of extemporaneous techniques


Notes


Bibliography


Index