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The Segovia Manuscript: A European Musical Repertory in Spain, C.1500

The Segovia Manuscript: A European Musical Repertory in Spain, C.1500

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music, Book 20

Music Instruction: GeneralMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1783274638
ISBN13: 9781783274635
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Nov 15 2019
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Essays illuminating a complex and sophisticated musical manuscript.

The Segovia Manuscript (Cathedral of Segovia, Archivo Capitular) has puzzled musicologists ever since its rediscovery at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is unique: no other manuscript of the period transmits a comparable blend of late fifteenth-century music, consisting of 204 sacred works and vernacular pieces in Flemish, French, Italian, and Spanish. An important group of pedagogical pieces by French and Flemish composers may preserve transcriptions of instrumental improvisation. This summary might suggest a messy collection, but on the contrary the manuscript is arranged with care, copied by one proficient scribe (except perhaps for the Spanish texts), who obviously followed a predetermined master plan. But which plan, who designed it, and why was the person responsible so interested in this combination?

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