Music Of The Renaissance: Imagination And Reality Of A Cultural Practice Hardcover

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Laurenz LüTteken

Where previous accounts of the Renaissance have not fully acknowledged the role that music played in this decisive period of cultural history, Laurenz Lutteken merges historical music analysis with the analysis of the other arts to provide a richer context for the emergence and evolution of creative cultures across civilizations. This fascinating panorama foregrounds music as a substantial component of the era and considers musical works and practices in a wider cultural-historical context. Among the topics surveyed are music's relationship to antiquity, the position of music within systems of the arts, the emergence of the concept of the musical work, as well as music's relationship to the theory and practice of painting, literature, and architecture. What becomes clear is that the Renaissance gave rise to many musical concepts and practices that persist to this day, whether the figure of the composer, musical institutions, and modes of musical writing and memory.

9780520297906

English

University Of California Press

12-Feb-19

248

Laurenz Lutteken is Professor of Musicology at the University of Zurich. He is is general editor of MGG Online and the author of Richard Strauss: Musik der Moderne and Mozart: Leben und Musik im Zeitalter der Aufklarung.

Unlike traditional histories of music IN the Renaissance, this stud of music OF the Renaissance eschews the detailed and comprehensive examination of the oeuvres of individual composers, the development of different genres and the identification of musical styles in favour of attempting to understand how musical production and practice fits" or meshes with general artistic expression and tendencies of the period. . . . Music of the Renaissance is highly recommended reading for anyone with an interest in cultural creativity and activity in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries." * Revue de Musicologie * "The vast scope of the study and the short length of the book mean that we are presented with various tantalizing snapshots of a rich musical culture that connects more broadly with the liberal arts." * European History Quarterly * "Music of the Renaissance is a fascinating discourse on the cultural and aesthetic relationships that characterize musical thought and practice from roughly the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. ...It is a brilliant piece of work that packs a world of information into a relatively slim volume. Highly recommended." * Journal of the Anglican Association of Musicians *