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Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta

Margaret Bent

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English
Routledge
21 June 2002
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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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   800g
ISBN:   9780815334972
ISBN 10:   0815334974
Series:   Criticism and Analysis of Early Music
Pages:   348
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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

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.

Reviews for Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta

This book was needed. It gives a clear, accurate and up-to-date account of a subject which has never before had the treatment it deserves. Murdoch's study at once becomes thebook on Cornish literature, essential for anyone concerned with Cornwall's past, but also breaking new ground for students of medieval drama, popular religion, and apocryphal literature.MEDIUM AEVUMThe chief strength of his book is t... (check orig.) plays, placing them alongside medieval English drama as well as the larger European manifestation of religious drama and the complex question of all their biblical and quasi-biblical sources. There is a useful bibliography, offering a sorely needed guide to a mass of local Cornish editions and publications. Modestly priced, Brian Murdoch's scholarly and attractive guide shoud appeal to many beyond medievalist circles; it will not be superseded for a long time. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTAn important book... a good half is devoted to the central texts of the 'ancient Cornish drama', of which they provide the most illuminating presentation to date. YEAR'S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES 55 ('93) A most valuable introduction. REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES


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