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Book Synopsis
Renaissance music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.

Table of Contents
Part I: Beginnings

1. Music and the Cultures of the Renaissance
2. Learning to Be a Musician

Part II: Before 1500

3. Music at Court and a Songbook for Beatrice
4. Piety, Devotion, and Ceremony
5. Structures and Symbols in Cantus Firmus and Canon

Part III: Around 1500

6. Number, Medicine, and Magic
7. Music and the Ideal Courtier
8. Josquin des Prez and the "Perfect Art"
9. Scribes, Printers, and Owners

Part IV: After 1500

10. Music and the Literary Imagination
11. Music and the Crisis of Belief
12. The Arts of Improvisation, Embellishment, and Variation
13. Empire, Exploration, and Encounter
14. Tradition and Innovation around 1600

Music in the Renaissance

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    A Paperback / softback by Richard Freedman, Walter Frisch

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      Publisher: WW Norton & Co
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/11/2012
      ISBN13: 9780393929164, 978-0393929164
      ISBN10: 0393929167
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Renaissance music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.

      Table of Contents
      Part I: Beginnings

      1. Music and the Cultures of the Renaissance
      2. Learning to Be a Musician

      Part II: Before 1500

      3. Music at Court and a Songbook for Beatrice
      4. Piety, Devotion, and Ceremony
      5. Structures and Symbols in Cantus Firmus and Canon

      Part III: Around 1500

      6. Number, Medicine, and Magic
      7. Music and the Ideal Courtier
      8. Josquin des Prez and the "Perfect Art"
      9. Scribes, Printers, and Owners

      Part IV: After 1500

      10. Music and the Literary Imagination
      11. Music and the Crisis of Belief
      12. The Arts of Improvisation, Embellishment, and Variation
      13. Empire, Exploration, and Encounter
      14. Tradition and Innovation around 1600

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