Karen Desmond (Massachusetts Brandeis University)

Music and the moderni, 1300-1350

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through a close reading of the words of fourteenth-century musicians and theorists, Karen Desmond explores the crucial contributions of mathematician Jean des Murs to the ars nova, the 'new art' of its time. This book will appeal to scholars of early music, medieval studies and late medieval intellectual history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781316617793
• ISBN-10: 1316617793
• Artikelnr.: 59367002

Autorenporträt

Karen Desmond is Assistant Professor of Music at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, and in 2018 was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University. She has published her research on thirteenth- and fourteenth-century music, theory, and notation in the leading journals of her field. Desmond was awarded an NEH Research Fellowship and an SSHRC Banting Fellowship for this book project.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Subtilitas and the ars nova
3. Jean des Murs, Quadrivial Scientist
4. Arts old and new
5. From trees to degrees
6. Notational dots and the line of musical time
Epilogue
Appendix 1: list of transitional ars nova motets and concordances
Appendix 2: key dates in the biography of Jean des Murs
Appendix 3: key dates in the biography of Philippe de Vitry
Appendix 4: sources of Jean des Murs's notitia and conclusiones
Appendix 5: edition of Apta/Flos
Appendix 6: works list for Jean des Murs.