Antoine Busnoys : method, meaning, and context in late medieval music / edited by Paula Higgins
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1999. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #464511
ISBN: 0198164068
Physical description; xxii, 599 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; Celebrating transgression and excess: Busnoys and the boundaries of late Medieval culture / Paula Higgins -- 'Trained and immersed in all musical delights': towards a new picture of Busnoys / David Fallows -- Music and ritual at Charles the Bold's court: the function of liturgical music by Busnoys and his contemporaries / Howard Mayer Brown -- On the origins, contexts, and implications of Busnoys's plainsong cantus firmi / M. Jennifer Bloxam -- The ceremony of the armed man: the sword, the altar, and the L'homme armé mass / Flynn Warmington -- Arma virumque cano: echoes of a golden age / Michael Long -- Musical politics in late Medieval Poitiers: a tale of two choirmasters / Paula Higgins -- Mensural intertextuality in the sacred music of Antoine Busnoys / Rob C. Wegman -- Text, tone, and symbol: regarding Busnoys's conception of In hydraulis and its presumed relationship to Ockeghem's Ut heremita solus / Jaap van Benthem -- The magnificat group of Antoine Busnoys: aspects of style and attribution / Mary Natvig -- Resjois toi terre de France, Rex pacificus: an 'Ockeghem' work reattributed to Busnoys / Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl -- Busnoys and 'Caron' in documents from Brussels / Barbara Haggh -- Conflicting attributions and anonymous chansons in the 'Busnoys' sources of the fifteenth century / Leeman L. Perkins -- False concords in Busnoys / Peter Urquhart -- Simultaneous conception and compositional process in the late fifteenth century / Richard Wexler -- Reading Tinctoris for guidance on tempo / Alexander Blachly -- Henricus Isaac and Fortuna desperata / Martin Picker -- Busnoys and Japart: teacher and student? / Allan W. Atlas -- Poliziano, Primavera, and Perugia 431: new light on Fortuna desperata / Honey Meconi -- Busnoys and Italy: the evidence of two songs / Joshua Rifkin. Subjects; Busnois, Antoine. ca. 1430-1492. Criticism and interpretation. Music. 15th century. History and criticism. Composers. France. Biography.
Price: €325.00