Music in the age of the Renaissance / Leeman L. Perkins.

Music in the age of the Renaissance / Leeman L. Perkins.

1st ed.

New York : W.W. Norton, ©1999.

1,147 p. : ill., maps, music ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 1061-1090) and index.

Pt. 1. The Historical Perspective. 1. Music in the Historical Renaissance. 2. The Christian Church as Patron of Music. 3. Music at the Secular Courts. 4. Music in the Urban Context. 5. The Musical Sources
Pt. 2. The Fifteenth Century: The Consolidation of Genres and Styles. 6. The Contenance Angloise: English Music at Home and Abroad. 7. French Secular Music of the Fifteenth Century. 8. The Motet in the Fifteenth Century. 9. Liturgical Polyphony for Office and Mass. 10. Liturgical Polyphony for the Mass. 11. Secular Polyphony on the Italian Peninsula. 12. Sacred Polyphony in Italy. 13. Polyphony in Germany: Indigenous Traditions. 14. Polyphony on the Iberian Peninsula
Pt. 3. The Sixteenth Century: The Established Genres and Stylistic Change. 15. The Motet as Genre and Compositional Type. 16. Liturgical Polyphony for the Office. 17. Liturgical Polyphony for the Mass. 18. Secular Polyphony in France. 19. The Madrigal. 20. Songs and Madrigals in England.

21. Music of the Protestant Reformation: Germany, Switzerland, France, Holland, and England. 22. Performance Practice and Instrumental Music. 23. Instrumental Repertories: The Sources. 24. The Instrumental Genres. 25. The Final Synthesis
Appendix. The Conceptualization of Music in the Renaissance.

United States -- New York (State) -- New York.

ML172 .P47 1999