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Book SynopsisAs a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the past three decades. Collected here for the first time are representative pieces from those years, covering diverse themes of continuing interest to him and his readers: music in Renaissance culture, problems of theory as well as the Italian madrigal in the sixteenth century, the figures of Antonfrancesco Doni and Giovanthomaso Cimello, and the nineteenth century''s views of early music.
In this collection, the same subject is seen from several angles, and thus gives a rich context for further exploration. Haar was one of the first to recognize the value of cultural study. His work also reminds us that the close study of the music itself is equally important. The articles contained in this book show the author''s conviction that a good way to address large problems is to begin by fo
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An Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America for 1998
Table of Contents
PrefaceEditor's PrefaceBibliographical AbbreviationsCh. 1A Sixteenth-Century Attempt at Music Criticism3Ch. 2The Courtier as Musician: Castiglione's View of the Science and Art of Music20Ch. 3Cosimo Bartoli on Music38Ch. 4The Frontispiece of Gafori's Practica Musicae (1496)79Ch. 5False Relations and Chromaticism in Sixteenth-Century Music93Ch. 6Zarlino's Definition of Fugue and Imitation121Ch. 7Lessons in Theory from a Sixteenth-Century Composer149Ch. 8Josquin as Interpreted by a Mid-Sixteenth-Century German Musician176Ch. 9The Note Nere Madrigal201Ch. 10The "Madrigale Arioso": A Mid-Century Development in the Cinquecento Madrigal222Ch. 11Giovanthomaso Cimello as Madrigalist239Ch. 12Notes on the Dialogo della Musica of Antonfrancesco Doni271Ch. 13A Gift of Madrigals to Cosimo I: The Ms. Florence, Bibl. Naz. Centrale, Magl. XIX, 130300Ch. 14The Libraria of Antonfrancesco Doni323Ch. 15Berlioz and the "First Opera"353Ch. 16Music of the Renaissance as Viewed by the Romantics366Index of Names383
