Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta
Author:   Margaret Bent
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:  

9780815334972


Pages:   348
Publication Date:   21 June 2002
Format:   Hardback
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Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta


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Musica ficta is the practice of sharpening or flattening certain notes to avoid awkard intervals in medieval and Reniassance music. This collection gathers Margaret Bent's influential writings on this controversial subject from the past thirty years, along with an extensive author's introduction discussing the current state of scholarship and responding to critics.

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Author:   Margaret Bent
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9780815334972


ISBN 10:   0815334974
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   21 June 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

I. Musica Recta and Musica Ficta II. Pycard's Credo No. 76 III. Renaissance Counterpoint and Musica Ficta IV. Diatonic Ficta V. Accidentals, Counterpoint and Notation in Aaron's Aggiunta to the Toscanello in Musica Dicatonic ficta Revisited: Josquion's Ave Maria in Context VII. Editing Early Music: The Dilemma of Translation VIII. Some Factors in the Control of Consonance and Sonority: Successive Composition and the Solus tenor IX. Pycard's Double Canon: Evidence of Revision? X. Text Setting in Sacred Music of the Early 15th Century: Evidence and Implications XI. Resfacta and Cantare super librum

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Margaret Bent is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and has been a key figure in the debates about late medieval and Renaissance music for nearly thirty years.

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