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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784944603321

Autore

McKinney Timothy R. <1956-, >

Titolo

Adrian Willaert and the theory of interval affect : the Musica nova madrigals and the novel theories of Zarlino and Vicentino / / Timothy R. McKinney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-18532-3

1-317-18531-5

1-315-56567-6

1-282-64335-5

9786612643354

0-7546-9672-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

782.0092

Soggetti

Madrigals, Italian - Italy - 16th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An Ashgate book"--Cover.

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Musical Examples; Acknowledgements; 1 Contexts; 2 Definition, Evaluation, and Validation of the Theory of Interval Affect; 3 Expressive Functions of Harmony in the Musica nova Madrigals; 4 Willaert's Other Madrigals and the Theory of Interval Affect; 5 The Compositional Legacy of Willaert's Theory of Interval Affect; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The 'theory of interval affect' originates not with Nicola Vicentino or Gioseffo Zarlino, but with their teacher, influential Venetian composer Adrian Willaert (1490-1562). Because Willaert left no theoretical writings of his own, Timothy McKinney uses Willaert's music to reconstruct his innovative theories concerning how music might communicate extra musical ideas. For Willaert, the appellations 'major' and 'minor' no longer signified merely the larger and smaller of a pair of like-numbered intervals; rather, they became categories of sonic character, the members of which are related by a sha