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On the origin and progress of the art of music
Title
On the origin and progress of the art of music / by John Taverner ; edited by Joseph M. Ortiz.
ISBN
1315207192
9781315207193
1138633690
9781138633698
Publication
London : Routledge, [2019]
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 166 pages) : illustrations
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Notes
English and Latin.
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Summary
John Taverner's lectures on music constitute the only extant version of a complete university course in music in early modern England. Originally composed in 1611 in both English and Latin, they were delivered at Gresham College in London between 1611 and 1638, and it is likely that Taverner intended at some point to publish the lectures in the form of a music treatise. The lectures, which Taverner collectively titled De Ortu et Progressu Artis Musicæ ("On the Origin and Progress of the Art of Music"), represent a clear attempt to ground musical education in humanist study, particularly in Latin and Greek philology. Taverner's reliance on classical and humanist writers attests to the durability of music's association with rhetoric and philology, an approach to music that is too often assigned to early Tudor England. Taverner is also a noteworthy player in the seventeenth-century Protestant debates over music, explicitly defending music against Reformist polemicists who see music as an overly sensuous activity.In this first published edition of Taverner's musical writings, Joseph M. Ortiz comprehensively introduces, edits, and annotates the text of the lectures, and an appendix contains the existing Latin version of Taverner's text. By shedding light on a neglected figure in English Renaissance music history, this edition is a significant contribution to the study of musical thought in Renaissance England, humanism, Protestant Reformism, and the history of education.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Taverner, John, 1584-1638. On the origin and progress of the art of music. London : Routledge, [2019]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English; Latin
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Music theory in Britain, 1500-1700: critical editions
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
List of
figures
Series editor
s preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I Taverner and Gresham College
1 Biography of John Taverner
2 The founding of Gresham College
3 John Bull and the Gresham music professorship
4 Taverner and the evolution of the Gresham music professorship
5 Audiences and readers of the Gresham lectures
II Taverner
s music lectures
1 Overview and form of the lectures
2 Humanism and philology in the lectures
3 The Reformist critique of music
4 Evolving ideas of musical literacy
On the origin and progress of the art of music (English lectures)
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
Appendix: Taverner
s Gresham College music lectures in Latin
Editorial note
Lecture 0 (inaugural lecture)
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Bibliography
Index
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