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On the Origin and Progress of the Art of Music by John Taverner

On the Origin and Progress of the Art of Music by John Taverner

Ortiz, Joseph M.

Hardcover

Series: Music Theory in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical Editions

Music Theory

ISBN10: 1138633690
ISBN13: 9781138633698
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 13 2018
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

John Taverner's lectures on music constitute the only extant version of a complete university course in music in early modern England. Originally composed in 1611 in both English and Latin, they were delivered at Gresham College in London between 1611 and 1638, and it is likely that Taverner intended at some point to publish the lectures in the form of a music treatise. The lectures, which Taverner collectively titled De Ortu et Progressu Artis Music (On the Origin and Progress of the Art of Music), represent a clear attempt to ground musical education in humanist study, particularly in Latin and Greek philology. Taverner's reliance on classical and humanist writers attests to the durability of music's association with rhetoric and philology, an approach to music that is too often assigned to early Tudor England. Taverner is also a noteworthy player in the seventeenth-century Protestant debates over music, explicitly defending music against Reformist polemicists who see music as an overly sensuous activity.

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