Tonal Structures in Early Music

Discussion of tonal structure has been one of the most problematic and controversial aspects of modern study of Medieval and Renaissance polyphony. These new essays written specifically for this volume consider the issue from historical, analytical, theoretical, perceptual and cultural perspectives.

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Series Editor's Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Analyzing Early Music, by Cristle Collins Judd

The Grammar of Early music: Preconditions for analysis, by Margaret Bent

Exploring Tonal Structure in French Polyphonic Song of the Fourteenth Century, by Sarah Fuller

Internal and External Views of the Modes, by Frans Wiering

Josquin's Gospel Motets and Chant-Based Tonality, by Cristle Collins Judd

Tonal Coherence and the Cycle of Thirds in Josquin's Memor esto verbi tui, by Timothy H. Steele

Concepts of Pitch in English Music Theory, c. 1560-1640, by Jessie Ann Owens

Concepts of Key in Seventeenth-Century English Keyboard Music, by Candance Bailey

From Psalmody to Tonality, by Harold Powers

Tonal Types and Modal Equivalence in Two Keyboard Cycles by Murschhauser, by Michael Dodds

Bibliography

Contributors

Index