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Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and Evolution de Anna Maria Busse Berger

Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and Evolution: Oxford Monographs on Music

Autor Anna Maria Busse Berger
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 ian 1993
In the fourteenth century composers and theorists invented mensuration and proportion signs that allowed them increased flexibility and precision in notating a very wide range of rhythmic and metric relationships. The origin and interpretation of these signs is one of the least understood and most complex issues in music history. This study represents the first attempt to see the origin of musical mensuration and proportion signs in the context of other measuring systems of the fourteenth century. The author also traces the evolution of the mensural notational system to the threshold of the modern system of notation. In the process, the exact meaning of everyday mensuration and proportion sign encountered in music and theory from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century is analysed and elucidated. The investigation results in a revision of many currently held views concerning the significance and development of early time signatures and will be indispensable to scholars and performers of late medieval and Renaissance music.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198162308
ISBN-10: 0198162308
Pagini: 284
Ilustrații: halftones, line drawings, tables, music examples
Dimensiuni: 160 x 244 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Clarendon Press
Colecția Clarendon Press
Seria Oxford Monographs on Music

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Abbreviations; Introduction; The representation and interpretation of mensuration signs; The origins of the mensural system and mensuration signs; The relationship between perfect and imperfect time; The relationship between major and minor prolation; Diminution by stroke and by mode signs; Proportion signs; Conclusions; Appendix. Index of signs; Bibliography; Index of compositions; General index.

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`excellent book ... performers and editors ... could do a lot worse than stay at home and read this important book'Musical Times
`Busse Berger investigates a difficult subject in which she has already established herself as a virtuoso in both oral and written performance ... This book has assembled much useful material on the theoretical and musical use of mensuration and proportion signs. It presents several bold and interesting hypotheses that scholars and performers will need some time to digest.'Early Music
`excellent book...For the detail of her arguments Anna Berger has drawn on a wealth of musical, theoretical and academic material...this is not a narrow book, but one sprinkled with piquant remarks on a variety of topics'Musical Times
'Anna Maria Busse Berger's book is a welcome guide to this complex and fascinating subject. The book is a model of careful organization ... an important contribution to the growing literature concerning durational and temporal issues in early music. Its careful organization and rigorous scholarship will satisfy the most demanding reader, yet its concern for clarity and its plentiful diagrams and tables, will attract even the novice to this fascinating topic. It should be required reading for anyone who studies, performs, and enjoys this repertoire.'Sally E. Norman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fontes Artis Musicae 41/1
...useful and provocative book...opens up as many avenues for further research...a useful reference work ... It is written with authority and the presentation is very clear - not an easy accomplishment for a book devoted so rigorously to one of the most daunting topics in European music history...an important book on music and culture.
Berger's ambitious study aims, first, to define major points of controversy within the mensural system and, second, to assemble statements made on these points by musical theorists active during the three centuries of the system's ascendancy. The book's flawless production (with musical examples in exquisite typeface specially designed by Jeffrey Dean) makes its convoluted subject matter surprisingly approachable ... a major achievement in the history of discourse about music.
one of its greatest strengths is her concentration on a fixed and well-defined body of material. Painstaking and wide-ranging work such as Berger's, grounded in the dialogue of theorists, helps us both to understand their ideas and concerns and to approach the musical sources of their eras with better questions to pose.

Notă biografică

Anna Maria Busse Berger is Distinguished Professor of Music, Emeritus, at the University of California, Davis. She has published articles and books on notation, mensuration and proportion signs, music and memory, mathematics and music, historiography, and music in African mission stations. She has won major awards from scholarly societies representing the three musicological disciplines: the American Musicological Society, the Society for Music Theory, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. Winner of the Alfred Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society (AMS) for best article by a young scholar, she has had fellowships at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence (twice); the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, the Stanford Humanities Center, the University of Vienna, and the Institute of Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin.Her book Medieval Music and the Art of Memory won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and the Wallace BerryAward from the Society of Music Theory for 2006, and has been translated into Italian. Her article "Spreading the Gospel of Singbewegung: An Ethnomusicologist Missionary in Tanganyika of the 1930s" won both the Colin Slim Award for best article by a senior scholar from the AMS and the Bruno Nettl Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology in 2014. She co-edited (together with Jesse Rodin) the Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music (2015). In 2015, Busse Berger gave the Faculty Research Lecture at UC Davis, the Academic Senate's highest honor. In addition, she won the UC Davis Honors Teaching Award in 2019.In 2019, Busse Berger was made an Honorary Member of the AMS. She also received $210,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation together with her colleague Henry Spiller to research a Music History of Indonesia. Her most recent book is The Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961: Scholars, Singers, Missionaries (2020).