The Art of Counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin

by Jesse Rodin

This book transforms our understanding of a fifteenth-century musical revolution. Renaissance composers developed fresh ways of handling musical flow in pursuit of intensifications, unexpected explosions, dramatic pauses, and sudden evaporations. A new esthetics of opposition, as this study calls it, can be contrasted with smoother and less goal-oriented approaches in music from before - and after - the period ca. 1425-1520. Casting wide evidentiary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107184592
• ISBN13: 9781107184596
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.6"