Beethoven, Sibelius, and the "profound logic": Studies in symphonic analysis

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Pike, Lionel

Music

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The ballett is a light vocal form well-known and well-loved by many madrigal singers, and yet this is the first work to embrace the subject in its totality. Dr Lionel Pike investigates the evolution of the ballett in England from its late sixteenth-century origins in Vecchi and Gastoldi. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of a large number of balletts, with each individual work treated in chronological order, leading to the sense of an 'evolution' of the form. Morley, Weelkes, Tomkins and Hilton are examined, alongside Cavendish, Greaves, Holborne, Jones, Pilkington, Vautor, Youll and Amner. Pike contends that a study of these miniatures can elucidate much about the way composers thought about music at the turn of the sixteenth century. Through the ballets it is possible to trace the path from modality to tonality, and to show how the principles of renaissance polyphony turned towards harmonically-dominated counterpoint, how the native English tradition of secular music interacted with the imported one, and how ideas about text illustration affected the writing of music. The book therefore deepens previous considerations of the ballet considerably, and provides the ultimate reference source, not only for early music scholars, but also for performers.

Pills To Purge Melancholy: The Evolution of the English Ballett

Ashgate Pub Ltd

Vaughan Williams' nine symphonies are among the finest pieces of music written in the twentieth century, each one revealing new aspects of Vaughan Williams' formidable creative personality. But for many years these works were undervalued by imperceptive critics - and Vaughan Williams did himself no favours by joking, with misplaced humility, about what he felt was his own lack of expertise.BR> Lionel Pike's penetrating analysis of all nine works reveals the hidden complexities that lie below the surface. He argues that `RVW' has been consistently denied his rightful place in twentieth-century music and in the history of the symphony, and that close investigation can uncover elements of construction that show the mind of a genius at work. LIONEL PIKE is Senior Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway (University of London), and has been organist of the college chapel since 1969. For four years he was Dean of the Faculty of Music in the University of London. He was a chorister and assistant organist at Bristol Cathedral, and at the University of Oxford he was organ scholar of Pembroke College.

Vaughan Williams and the Symphony (Symphonic Studies) (Volume 2)

Toccata Press

Vaughan Williams and the Symphony (Symphonic Studies)

Hexachords in Late-Renaissance Music (Routledge Revivals)

Routledge

A Passion for Symphonies: Robert Simpson (1921-1997)

Austin Macauley Publishers

<p>Presupposing that the reader has a basic knowledge of the techniques of Renaissance composition, the author examines the ways in which hexachords, one of the foundations of 16th- century musical language, were utilized and developed in the hands of different composers. Moving from small-scale exampl</p>

Hexachords in Late-Renaissance Music

Scolar Pr

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