music-bib - 1/24/95
Bibliography and reviews for period music.
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From: abgst5+ at pitt.edu (Andrea B Gansley-ortiz)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Music Bibliography :small
Date: 6 Dec 1994 16:44:29 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Good gentles, below is a very small music bibliography which can be
useful for the beginning SCA musician as well as those who have been here
for a while. When I get more time, I intend to post some composers and
some individual songs. If people find this useful and want to see more,
please let me know.
Su segura servidora,
Esmeralda
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An Anthology of English Medieval and Renaissance Vocal Music: part songs
for one to six voices. ed. Noah Greenberg New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Inc., 1961. ISBN 0 393 00461 9
This book has a list of suggested reading which focuses on English
Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Each piece is dated along
with some information about the style it is written in. If a piece is
not in English, a translation is provided. It has both a title index
and a vocal part index.
Anthology of Medieval Music. ed. Richard H. Hoppin, New York: W. W.
Norton & Co. Inc., 1978. ISBN 0 393 09080 9
This contains mainly vocal music with more than half of it being
dedicated to sacred vocal music. There is a list of the different
manuscripts that the music is taken from. At the beginning page of each
piece is a small reference to where the piece was obtained. All the
music is in one, two or three parts with the majority being one part
pieces.
Medieval and Renaissance Music: A Performer's Guide. Timothy James
McGee, Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1985. ISBN 0-8020-6729-8
Focuses on interpretation of music as well as performance. Covers
music from 400-1400 and the 15th and 16th centuries. It's divided into
four major parts: Materials, Repertory, Techniques, and Practical
Considerations. The useful thing about this book is that you don't need
to read all of it to get useful, applicable information from it. It
contains musical examples and an extensive bibliography. It also has a
list of musical collections divided by both century and country.
Performing Medieval and Renaissance Music: An Introductory Guide.
Elizabeth V. Phillips & John-Paul Christopher Jackson, New York:
Schirmer Books, 1986. ISBN 0 02 871790 2
Covers practical construction of an early music ensemble for the
professional or the serious amateur. It covers such practical
concerns as maintenance of instruments as well as suggestions on how to
select repertoire. It gives some general guidelines on performance
and 35 suggested pieces for performance. It also has appendices on
instruments, their ranges, journals about early music and pronunciation
guides. The bibliography is 10 pgs long.
Baroque Music: Style and Performance, A Handbook. Robert Donington, New
York: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., 1982. ISBN 0 393 30052 8
There is much information on the late Renaissance in this text as
when the renaissance of music ends and the Baroque begins is a fuzzy
line. It can also help a performer with differentiating musical style
between these two times. It has a suggested list of reading, extensive
bibliography and numerous musical examples.
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Andrea B. Gansley-Ortiz University of Pittsburgh
abgst5+ at pitt.edu Dept. of Music
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From: bradford at alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Bradford David Matthews)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Music Bibliography :small
Date: 6 Dec 1994 20:50:32 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
I'd like to suggest "The Medieval Songbook" (numbers etc.. not available
right now.) Unfortunately, it's out of print, but you might be able to find
it in some libraries. It contains 100+ troubadour & trouvere songs, with
music (and chord notation) and lyrics, both in the original and english
translations (the translations are strict, not metered or rhyming)
Erik of Grenloch, who wants to be a bard when he grows up
From: mjc+ at cs.cmu.edu (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Music Bibliography :small
Date: 7 Dec 94 03:31:51 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science
Oxford University Press publishes a nice collection of vocal and
instrumental pieces (for varying numbers) entitled simply "Medieval Music".
It starts with monophonic chant and goes through to about the end of the
14th century (maybe a little 15th C; the book isn't handy). It's a large
paperback that you can probably get relatively inexpensively.
Oxford also publishes books of madrigals and carols, but these are oriented
toward groups.
Ellisif
From: asamplas at indiana.edu (Vlad the Purple)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Music Bibliography :small
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 15:55:22
Organization: Indiana University
Erik of Grenloch objects to my blasting of "A Medieval Songbook" sight
unseen because he had said it contains "chord notation".
Well, I bopped downstairs to the music library and found a copy. The full
citation for the interested: _A Medieval Songbook: Troubadour & Trouvere_,
ed. Fletcher Collins, Jr., Robert F. Cook, and Roger Harmon, Charlottesville,
Univ. VA Press, 1982. Contains 50 T/T songs in Provencal/Old French + English
xlations; music in modern rhythmic notation with one or two drone lines +
lute tabulature, followed by melody line with letters for chords. Manuscript
citation for where the music/text was taken from appear with the pieces.
Vidas of the composers given in back where available.
I was surprised to find it done by scholars, who seem to know what they're
talking about. The intro does breeze thru the issues; it doesn't contain
enough to please a scholar, and people for whom things like "B.N.fr.844",
"third rhythmic mode" and "Aubry and Beck" are so much gibberish will ignore
it, but it does show that they had done their homework in compiling it.
I have some _REAL_ problems with the rhythms they put down in some of the
songs - I think the rhythmic solutions they impose in order to come up with
a practical performing edition are way out of line in some cases; but I'm
pretty conservative in how I'd approach this type of music. Similarly, I
have some fairly strong disagreements with some of the chordings they tack
on. If you want me to get down to the nitty-gritty, let's take this private;
we're talking real under-the-hood techie-speak here.
I think the bottom line is, it's nowhere near as bad as I thought seeing
Erik's post, but it's not something I'd give to a person just starting out
with T/T music - anyone brought up in the modern tradition of blindly
accepting what they read in a book, and who didn't have a fair bit of
experience with this repertoire b4hand, would get ideas about T/T music that
would get them in mucho trouble with some, tho not all, Early Music types.
So I don't think I owe any money on this, but I'll be happy to give Erik a
beer or other beverage of his choice next Pennsic.
-purple
Artie Samplaski Vlad the Purple
Indiana U. School of Music Myrkfaelinn Midrealm Accounts Rep.
asamplas at indiana.edu
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