Elway Bevin's A Briefe and Short Instruction of the Art of Musicke
begins with rudimentary instruction on consonance, dissonance and
proportions but quickly turns to a presentation of examples of
plainsong-based canonic writing of increasing complexity and
remarkable diversity. Bevin's book was well known in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was quoted or commented
upon by Christopher Simpson, Henry Purcell, Charles Burney, John
Hawkins and Augustus Kollmann. In the introduction to this modern
edition of the work, the first edition to appear since the original
was published in 1631, Denis Collins establishes the great
importance of A Briefe and Short Instruction of the Art of Musicke
in the history of canon. He assesses Bevin's relationship to
English theories of canon and to manuscript collections of
plainsong canons from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth
centuries, and he proposes a typology for canonic processes and
structures which is applied in the discussion of Bevin's canons.
General
Imprint: |
Ashgate Publishing Limited
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Music Theory in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical Editions |
Release date: |
August 2007 |
First published: |
2007 |
Editors: |
Denis Collins
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
152 |
Edition: |
New Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7546-5053-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Music >
General
Books >
Music >
General
|
LSN: |
0-7546-5053-7 |
Barcode: |
9780754650539 |
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