On Wed, Jul 25, 2007, Caroline Usher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Supposing one wanted to learn the fundamentals of music as it was taught > in the 16th century, starting with the gamut and hexachords.
Dont forget the lectures and post-lecture beer. Lots of renaissance treatises, Boethius, Gaffurius are but two of the important authors. Trouble is reconciling them of course. Oh, You dont necessarily have to know both greek and hebrew, marginalia will translate those passages if you get the right editions. Does Duke have a school of music? You could try corresponding with such as Dr Richard Wexler at UMD, he was chair of musicology there when I played in the collegium musicum. > There is an admirably > thorough explanation of the theory at > http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/harmony/hex.html, but how would one put it > into practice? Dont forget, all was in transition during the 16C, Morley discusses some of that aspect. Renaissance theory went way beyond what was needed and used by the majority of musicians, the advent of printing brought in a whole bunch of people with much more practical viewpoints. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
