Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft
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Briefe Discourse
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Christ's Hospital
Christ’s Hospital
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Common Practise
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Gibble Gabble
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Great Diminution
Gresham College
historical musicology
Jacobean music theory
La Mi
Lancelot Andrewes
Leofranc Holford Strevens
Manuscript Treatise
Martin Peerson
Matthew Gwynne
mensuration canon
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Perfect Prolation
Practicall Musicke
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Product details
- ISBN 9780367669539
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both 1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of the Whole Booke of Psalmes (1621) and his original sacred works. A theorist as well as a composer and editor, Ravenscroft wrote two treatises on music theory: the well-known A Briefe Discourse (1614), and 'A Treatise of Practicall Musicke' (c.1607), which remains in manuscript. This is the first book to bring together both theoretical works by this important Jacobean musician and to provide critical studies and transcriptions of these treatises. A Briefe Discourse furthermore introduces an anthology of music by Ravenscroft, John Bennet, and Ravenscroft's mentor, Edward Pearce, illustrating some of the precepts in the treatise. The critical discussion provided by Duffin will help explain Ravenscroft's complicated consideration of mensuration, in particular.
Ross W. Duffin earned a doctorate in performance practice at Stanford. Since 1978, he has directed the historical performance program at Case Western Reserve University as Kulas Professor of Music. A two-time award winner from the American Musicological Society, his specialties are Flemish and English Renaissance music and historical tunings.
