PDF⋙ Music in the Renaissance (Revised Edition) by Gustav Reese
Music in the Renaissance (Revised Edition) by Gustav Reese Music in the Renaissance (Revised Edition) by Gustav Reese PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad A complete analysis of the development of music during the Renaissance including a discussion of the contributions made by each country. For this study, the most fitting method has seemed to be one that might, with Browning in mind, be called the Ring and the Book technique. Part I deals at some length with the central musical language of the 15th and 16th centuries, which was developed in France, Italy, and the Low Countries, while Part II deals primarily with the music of other lands. This distinction has nothing to do with the comparative intrinsic merit of the various bodies of music, but only with the separation of local dialects from the central language. Indeed, such local productions as the 16th-century music of Spain and England provide artistic expressions quite in a class with the best music of France, Italy, and the Low Countries. ...