Approaching Musical Classicism—Understanding Styles and Style Change in Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music

01 October 1980 I Historical/stylistic periods in music are both useful and perplexing concepts; they simultaneously clarify and hinder one's perception of a given period and a given work. Part of the difficulty arises from a general lack of agreement as to what...

Is It Possible to Sing the Prologue to Orlando di Lasso’s [i]Prophetiae Sibyllarum[/i] in Tune?

05 June 2013 Abstract All tuning systems except equal temperament (ET) have small irreconcilable mathematical discrepancies. In particular, just intonation (JI), espoused by Zarlino and other Renaissance theorists as an ideal tuning system, was already known in the...

Sixteenth-Century Conception of Harmony

01 October 1979 musica ridotta alla moderna prattica, Documenta Musicologica: Erste Reihe, Vol. XVII; Faksimile-Neudruck hrsg. von Edward E. Lowinsky (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1959), III, xxii, fol. 55r. 132"Ma si debbe avertire, ch'io non pongo qui Regola particolare, del...

On the Matter of a Doctor's Degree for Composers

01 October 1963 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Doctorate in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Arthur Mendel, Henry Leland Clarke, Robert Middleton, George Rochberg, Peter Eliot Stone, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also...

The Doctorate in Composition

01 October 1963 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Doctorate in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Edward E. Lowinsky, Henry Leland Clarke, Robert Middleton, George Rochberg, Peter Eliot Stone, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also...

Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory

01 October 1982 As a doctoral degree certifies (among other things) to a breadth of knowledge in the field, one requirement for the Ph.D. in music theory should be a scholarly course surveying the history of theory. To decide on this requirement, however, is easier...

Music Analysis in an Historical Context

01 October 1966 the College Music Society, Ann Arbor, 1965. 2Joseph Kerman, "A Profile for American Musicology," XVIII (1965), 65-69; Edward E. Lowinsky, "Character and Purposes of American Musicology; A Reply to Joseph Kerman," XVIII, 222-234; communication from...

Architectural Control in Josquin's Tu Pauperum Refugium

01 October 1978 1971, provide many illuminating analyses. See particularly Part III, "Style and Analysis," of Josquin des Prez, ed. Edward E. Lowinsky (London: Oxford University Press, 1976). 2Manuscript sources for this motet are listed in A. Smijers, Werken van...

Needs for Research in Black-American Music

01 October 1973 for American Studies in American Musicology," Journal of the American Musicological Society, XIX (1966), 73-84; also Edward E. Lowinsky, "Character and Purposes of American Musicology," JAMS, XVIII (1965), 222-234. 2Dvorak was the first of the great...

Composition Before Rameau: Harmony, Figured Bass, and Style in the Baroque

01 October 1984 The relationships between music history, music theory, and composition at times seem so tenuous today that it is easy to forget that those three areas of specialization have split off from one another only recently, and that the practice of one can...

Performance Practice in Baroque Vocal Music

01 October 1978 Reduced to its quintessential form, the question most frequently asked concerning Baroque concerts and recordings over the past twenty-five years would be as follows: "How does one manage to impart an easy and natural flow to the music, so that the...

An Ethnomusicologist's Reflections on "Complexity" and "Participation" in Music

01 October 1977 I. "One of the distinctive facts about contemporary history is that it is world history and that the forces shaping it cannot be understood unless we are prepared to adopt world-wide perspectives; and this means not merely supplementing our...

Thoughts on the Ph.D. in Music Composition

01 October 1963 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Doctorate in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Edward E. Lowinsky, Arthur Mendel, Henry Leland Clarke, Robert Middleton, George Rochberg, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also...

The Ph.D. in Composition

01 October 1963 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Doctorate in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Edward E. Lowinsky, Arthur Mendel, Henry Leland Clarke, Robert Middleton, George Rochberg, and Peter Eliot Stone. Their articles also...

Observations on the Ph.D. in Composition

01 October 1963 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Doctorate in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Edward E. Lowinsky, Arthur Mendel, Henry Leland Clarke, Robert Middleton, Peter Eliot Stone, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also...

On the Doctorate in Composition

01 October 1963 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Doctorate in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Edward E. Lowinsky, Arthur Mendel, Henry Leland Clarke, George Rochberg, Peter Eliot Stone, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also...

Make the Doctor of Music an Earned Degree

01 October 1963 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Doctorate in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Edward E. Lowinsky, Arthur Mendel, Robert Middleton, George Rochberg, Peter Eliot Stone, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also appear...