Joachim Burmeister's early seventeenth-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque musical practice: it was the first systematically to explore the connection between rhetoric and...
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Joachim Burmeister's early seventeenth-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque musical practice: it was the first systematically to explore the connection between rhetoric and music that became a cornerstone of Baroque musical thought. But until now neither a reliable modern edition nor a full translation of this seminal work has existed. This much-needed edition by Benito V. Rivera contains a critical transcription of the Latin text and an annotated translation on facing pages.In a lengthy introduction to the book, Rivera reviews Burmeister's two earlier treatises on musical composition, analyzes Musical Poetics as a whole, and places it within its historical context. An appendix to the edition reproduces the passages of music cited by Burmeister, greatly facilitating the interpretation of Burmeister's explanations of the rhetorical figures. The book will be of interest to music historians and theorists as well as to scholars of rhetoric
Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Foreword by the Series Editor -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction -- -- Musical Sources Cited -- -- MUSICAL POETICS -- -- Dedicatory Letter and Poems from Friends -- -- Musical Poetics -- -- 1 Notation -- -- 2 The Voice Parts -- -- 3 Instruction on Consonant and Dissonant Pitches -- -- 4 Combination of Consonances into a Harmony -- -- 5 Cadences -- -- 6 The Musical Modes -- -- 7 The Transposition of Modes -- -- 8 How to Start Singing a Composition -- -- 9 The Ending of Melodies and Harmonies -- -- 10 The Alignment of the Text -- -- 11 Orthography -- -- 12 Musical Ornaments or Figures -- -- 13 The Genera of Songs or Melody Making -- -- 14 The Types of Polyphony -- -- 15 The Analysis or Arrangement of a Musical Piece -- -- 16 Imitation -- -- Appendix A1 Introductory Letters and Poems in Hypomnematum musicae poeticae -- -- Appendix A2 Introductory Letter and Poems in Musica autoschediastike -- -- Appendix B Musical Examples Cited by Burmeister -- -- Index
Joachim Burmeister's early seventeenth-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque musical practice: it was the first systematically to explore the connection between rhetoric and...
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Joachim Burmeister's early seventeenth-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque musical practice: it was the first systematically to explore the connection between rhetoric and music that became a cornerstone of Baroque musical thought. But until now neither a reliable modern edition nor a full translation of this seminal work has existed. This much-needed edition by Benito V. Rivera contains a critical transcription of the Latin text and an annotated translation on facing pages.In a lengthy introduction to the book, Rivera reviews Burmeister's two earlier treatises on musical composition, analyzes Musical Poetics as a whole, and places it within its historical context. An appendix to the edition reproduces the passages of music cited by Burmeister, greatly facilitating the interpretation of Burmeister's explanations of the rhetorical figures. The book will be of interest to music historians and theorists as well as to scholars of rhetoric
Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Foreword by the Series Editor -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction -- -- Musical Sources Cited -- -- MUSICAL POETICS -- -- Dedicatory Letter and Poems from Friends -- -- Musical Poetics -- -- 1 Notation -- -- 2 The Voice Parts -- -- 3 Instruction on Consonant and Dissonant Pitches -- -- 4 Combination of Consonances into a Harmony -- -- 5 Cadences -- -- 6 The Musical Modes -- -- 7 The Transposition of Modes -- -- 8 How to Start Singing a Composition -- -- 9 The Ending of Melodies and Harmonies -- -- 10 The Alignment of the Text -- -- 11 Orthography -- -- 12 Musical Ornaments or Figures -- -- 13 The Genera of Songs or Melody Making -- -- 14 The Types of Polyphony -- -- 15 The Analysis or Arrangement of a Musical Piece -- -- 16 Imitation -- -- Appendix A1 Introductory Letters and Poems in Hypomnematum musicae poeticae -- -- Appendix A2 Introductory Letter and Poems in Musica autoschediastike -- -- Appendix B Musical Examples Cited by Burmeister -- -- Index
