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Your understanding of Western Art Music will be greatly enriched by understanding its foundations in Medieval times
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This book (and its companion anthology) provide a solid introduction to the rise of polyphony in the medieval period. It necessarily deals with church forms and the ways in which they evolved over centuries. Hoppin then shows us the secular music and poetry of the troubadours, dance music, and the rise of the motet and they ways which they not only interacted with each other, but how they in turn changed sacred music.
The author presents his material in a logical sequence with appropriate illustrations and musical examples. The text is very readable and provides good references and bibliographical sources for further reading and study.
Hoppin is also sensitive to the geographical differences in the way music developed. He does have separate chapters for the Ars Nova (new art) in France, Italy, and other developments in England. And since the time period is long, he also focuses what happens in different centuries. The only composer that gets his own chapter (since so much music was written by the ever present anonymous) is the monumental Guillaume de Machaut.
The book ends discussing the transition to the Renaissance and the "Old Hall Manuscript".
Fascinating stuff from a very rich and formative period in the tradition of Western Art Music. |
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