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Medieval Polyphony and Song

by Helen Deeming , Frieda Van Der Heijden
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781316601495
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 264
  • Original Price: GBP 28.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 427 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Criticism

What characterises medieval polyphony and song? Who composed this music, sang it, and wrote it down? Where and when did the different genres originate, and under what circumstances were they created and performed? This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the rich variety of polyphonic practices and song traditions during the Middle Ages. It explores song from across Europe, in Latin and vernacular languages (precursors to modern Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish); and polyphony from early improvised organum to rhythmically and harmonically complex late medieval motets. Each chapter focuses on a particular geographical location, setting out the specific local contexts of the music created there. Guiding the reader through the musical techniques of melody, harmony, rhythm, and notation that distinguish the different genres of polyphony and song, the authors also consider the factors that make modern performances of this music sound so different from one another.

Deeming, Helen: - Helen Deeming is an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Songs in British Sources, c.1150-1300 (2013) and the editor, with Elizabeth Eva Leach, of Manuscripts and Medieval Song (2015) and A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle Ages (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).

Van Der Heijden, Frieda: - Frieda van der Heijden specializes in medieval vernacular song and manuscript production. In her Ph.D. dissertation (2018) she demonstrates aspects of increasing commercialization in the production of (music) books in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Northern France. She taught musicology, music history, and medieval history courses at Royal Holloway, and Utrecht University.

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