The greatest Renaissance creator of liturgical music; the revered sixteenth-century composer known as Palestrina wrote works that served for centuries as models of counterpoint. Until The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance; theoreticians seldom closely analyzed the composerrsquo;s work to discover its fundamental elements; including the handling of rhythm; line; and harmony.Beginning chapters discuss the standard use of rhythm and mensuration in Palestrinarsquo;s time; the ecclesiastical modes; and treatment of words. Author Knud Jeppesen proceeds to explore Palestrinarsquo;s music in terms of the elements that constitute his personal style; isolating unusual vertical lines and establishing common and uncommon interval skips and rhythmic accents. The heart of the book presents a modern empirical treatment of dissonance. Palestrinas contrapuntal technique forged new harmonic devices; placing dissonance on unaccented beats and highlighting text in very unorthodox ways for his time. These new uses of dissonance and resolution are explored in meticulous detail. In addition; Jeppesen includes a complete history of the evolving concept and treatment of dissonance before Palestrina; including quotations from the earliest theoretical works and numerous musical examples that illustrate the practices of Palestrinarsquo;s predecessors.
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