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Long recognized as one of the most important medieval treatises on music, the Musica of Hermannus Contractus is here presented in a newly revised translation, with commentary reflecting the best current scholarship. A polymath and monk, Hermannus Contractus (1013-54) contributed to the important advancements made in European arts and sciences in the first half of the eleventh century, writing on history, astronomy, and time-keeping devices, among other topics, and composing several chants. His music theory, founded on a systematic treatment of traditional concepts and terminology dating back to the ancient Greeks, is concerned largely with the organization of pitch in Gregorian chant. Hermann's approach stems from Germanic species-based thought, and is marked by a distinction between aspects of form and aspects of position, privileging the latter. He expresses this in terms imported from then-new developments in Italian music theory, thus acting as a nexus for the two traditions. Numerology and number symbolism play significant roles in Hermann's theories, and his critiques of other theorists offer insights into medieval intellectual life. Hermann also uses chant citations and exercises to help his readers apply theory to practice. John L. Snyder's revised edition of Ellinwood's long-standard 1952 text and translation offers a new introduction, including codicological descriptions of the sources; a critical edition of the Latin text with an annotated English translation on facing pages; appendices detailing the documents pertaining to Hermann's life, his citations of plainsong, and his original diastematic notation system; and greatly expanded indexes. Snyder's Musica will serve as the standard version of this major historical document for years to come. Leonard Ellinwood (1905-94) served in the Library of Congress cataloging divisions in music and in the humanities for thirty-five years. He published scholarly works and editions of both medieval music and church music. John L. Snyder is Professor of Music Theory and Musicology at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music.

Music theory --- Théorie musicale --- Early works to 1800. --- History --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Histoire --- Hermannus, --- Music --- Theory --- Contractus, Hermannus, --- Herman, --- Hermann, --- European arts. --- Germanic species-based thought. --- Gregorian chant. --- Hermannus Contractus. --- Italian music theory. --- Musica. --- diastematic notation system. --- medieval intellectual life. --- medieval treatise. --- music theory. --- number symbolism. --- numerology.

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This pathbreaking study links two traditionally separate genres as their stars crossed to explore the emergence of multiple selves in early modern Italian culture and society. Mauro Calcagno focuses on the works of Claudio Monteverdi, a master of both genres, to investigate how they reflect changing ideas about performance and role-playing by singers. Calcagno traces the roots of dialogic subjectivity to Petrarch's love poetry arguing that Petrarchism exerted a powerful influence not only on late Renaissance literature and art, but also on music. Covering more than a century of music and cultural history, the book demonstrates that the birth of opera relied on an important feature of the madrigalian tradition: the role of the composer as a narrative agent enabling performers to become characters and hold a specific point of view.

Petrarchism. --- Monteverdi, Claudio, --- Love poetry, European --- Monteverdi, Claudio --- Opera. --- Madrigals --- History and criticism. --- Madrigals - History and criticism. --- Monteverdi, Claudio, - 1567-1643. - Operas. --- Monteverdi, Claudio, - 1567-1643. - Madrigals. --- art and poetry. --- classical music. --- composer history. --- early modern period. --- european history. --- european poetry. --- history of opera. --- italian culture. --- italian history. --- italian music. --- italian poetry. --- italy and music. --- live entertainment. --- madrigral history. --- modern music studies. --- music and performance. --- music history. --- opera books. --- opera composers. --- opera music. --- performance studies. --- performing arts history. --- performing arts. --- renaissance art. --- renaissance literature. --- renaissance period. --- theater. --- theatre. --- vocal music.