The technique of Byrd's vocal polyphony /
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| Author / Creator: | Andrews, H. K. (Herbert Kennedy) |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©1966. |
| Description: | xii, 306 pages : music, tables ; 28 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2074386 |
Table of Contents:
- Introductory. Byrd's environment ; Influences on his style and technique
- The modes and tonality. The 'polyphonic modes' in the sixteenth century ; Byrd's use of the modal system and the signs of the coming change to the diatonic tonal system of chord and key relationships
- The proportional time system, rhythm. The proportional system in the sixteenth century ; The problems of Byrd's use of time signatures ; Byrd's rhythmic technique
- The melodic line. Byrd's melodic line and its rhythmical structure ; Range of the voices
- Vertical interval technique. The interval relationships of the pairs of lines which make up the texture ; Part-writing
- Unessential dissonances. Passing and returning notes
- Unessential dissonances (continued). Description and comparative historical analysis of Byrd's use of ornamental dissonances, approached and/or quitted by leap
- Unessential dissonances (continued). Anticipations, Nota Cambiata figures, other 'changing note' formulae
- Suspended discords. The rhythmic and melodic view ; The harmonic view
- Essential discords. An examination of the evidence for and against the theory of essential discords in Byrd's polyphony
- Contrapuntal techniques. Fugue ; Canon ; Invertible counterpoint ; Other technical devices
- Texture and form. Contrapuntal textures ; Influence of the text on structure
- Word underlaying and word setting.