Stefano Mengozzi

The Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory

Guido of Arezzo Between Myth and History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed study of the sight-singing method introduced by the 11th-century monk Guido of Arezzo, in its intellectual context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781107442573
• ISBN-10: 1107442575
• Artikelnr.: 41373085

Autorenporträt

Stefano Mengozzi is Associate Professor at the School of Music, Theatre and Dance, University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Guido's hexachord: old facts and new questions; Part I.
Guidonian Solmization in Music Theory and Practice: 1. Guido's musical
syllables: conflicting views from modern historiography; 2. Inside the
gamut: Guido of Arezzo and Hermannus Contractus on the major sixth; 3.
Hands off! Singing without syllables in the Middle Ages; 4. The making of a
system: medieval music semiotics in transition; Interlude: All hexachords
are 'soft'; Part II. Reforming the Music Curriculum in the Age of Humanism:
5. Back to the monochord: church reform and music theory in the 15th
century; 6. Normalizing the humanist: Johannes Gallicus as a 'Follower of
Guido'; 7. Gafori's hand: forging a new Guido for a new humanist culture;
8. Hexachordal theory and deductive method in Gioseffo Zarlino's
Dimostrationi harmoniche (1571); Epilogue: Discarding the Guidonian image
of early music; Bibliography.