Source Readings in Music History

William Oliver Strunk

W. W. Norton & Company, 1998 - Music - 1552 pages

Forty-five years after the appearance of the first edition, Oliver Strunk's monumental anthology of writings about music has been thoroughly revised and extended by a team of scholars working under the direction of musicologist Leo Treitler. For this new edition, seven specialists in music history have replaced some selections, added others, contributed new translations, and provided additional notes and introductions. An entire new section, covering the twentieth century, significantly enlarges the book's scope. Readers can now acquire a comprehensive picture of Western musical thought and ideas through the ages.

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 3
• Plato FROM THE Republic: 9
• Plato FROM THE Timaeus: 19
• Cleonides Harmonic Introduction: 35
• Aristides Quintilianus FROM On Music: 47
• Gaudentius Harmonic Introduction: 66
• Bartolomé de Segovia? FROM Relation of Many Occurrences: 78
• Athenaeus FROM THE Sophists at Dinner: 85
• Sextus Empiricus Against the Musicians: 94
• INTRODUCTION: 113
• Richard Ligon FROM A True Exact History of the Island: 118
• St Basil FROM Homily on the First Psalm: 121
• St Jerome FROM Commentary on the Epistle of Paul: 127
• Giambattista Mancini FROM Practical Reflections: 131
• MUSIC AS A LIBERAL ART: 135
• Boethius FROM Fundamentals of Music: 137
• Cassiodorus FROM Fundamentals of Sacred and Secular Learning: 143
• Isidore of Seville FROM THE Etymologies: 149
• CHANT AND LITURGY IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES: 157
• St Benedict FROM THE Rule of St Benedict: 159
• PseudoGermanus Exposition of the Ancient Gallican Liturgy: 164
• Anonymous 8th Century Ordo romanus XVII: 171
• Helisachar Letter to Archbishop Nidibrius of Narbonne: 175
• John the Deacon FROM Life of Gregory the Great: 178
• The Monk of St Gall FROM Life of the Emperor Charles the Great: 181
• To the Prelates of Mainz: 183
• MUSIC THEORY AND PEDAGOGY IN THE MIDDLE AGES: 187
• Anonymous 9th Century FROM THE Musica enchiriadis: 189
• Do Women Compose: 194
• Anonymous 10th Century FROM THE Alia musica: 196
• PseudoOdo of Cluny Dialogue on Music: 198
• Guido of Arezzo Prologue to His Antiphoner: 211
• Guido of Arezzo Epistle Concerning an Unknown Chant: 214
• Anonymous 13th Century Discantus positio vulgaris: 218
• Johannes de Garlandia FROM De musica mensurabili: 223
• Franco of Cologne Ars cantus mensurabilis: 226
• Aegidius of Zamora FROM Ars musica: 245
• Marchetto of Padua FROM Pomerium in arte musicae mensuratae: 251
• Jehan des Murs FROM Notitia artis musicae: 261
• Jacques of Liège FROM Speculum musicae: 269
• INTRODUCTION: 281
• Johannes Tinctoris Proportionale musicesDedication: 291
• Pierre de Ronsard Livre des mélangesDedication: 300
• Guillaume Du Fay Letter to Piero and Giovanni: 311
• Vincenzo Calmeta FROM Life of the Fertile Vernacular Poet: 321
• Francis I King of France Royal Privilege for Music: 330
• Maddalena Casulana The First Book of Madrigals for Four: 336
• Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx FROM Le balet comique: 342
• Vincenzo Giustiniani FROM Discourse on the Music of: 352
• Martin Luther Wittemberg GesangbuchForeword: 361
• Claude Goudimel The Geneva PsalterForeword to: 367
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Second Book of Masses: 373
• Marsilio Ficino FROM Three Books on Life: 385
• Pontus de Tyard FROM First Solitaire or Prose on the Muses: 395
• Johannes Tinctoris FROM Liber de arte contrapuncti: 401
• Bartolomé Ramis de Pareia FROM Musica practica: 407
• Pietro Aaron FROM Treatise on the Nature and Recognition: 415
• Heinrich Glarean FROM Dodecachordon: 428
• Gioseffo Zarlino FROM Istitutioni harmoniche: 436
• Vincenzo Galilei FROM Dialogue on Ancient and Modern: 462
• Pietro Pontio FROM Ragionamento di musica: 472
• to Practicall Musicke: 479
• Girolamo Mei Letter to Vincenzo Galilei: 485
• Fray Toribio de Benavente called Motolinia FROM Memoranda: 496
• Filippo Pigafetta and Duarte Lopez FROM Relation on: 502
• INTRODUCTION: 511
• Pietro de Bardi Letter to Giovanni Battista Doni: 523
• Claudio and Giulio Cesare Monteverdi Explanation of: 535
• Pietro della Valle FROM Of the Music of Our Time: 544
• Pierfrancesco Tosi FROM Observations on the Florid: 551
• Heinrich Schütz Memorandum to the Elector of Saxony: 557
• Johann Sebastian Bach Short but Most Necessary Draft for: 565
• Evrard Titon du Tillet FROM THE First Supplement to: 571
• The Truthful Reporter Two Letters on Opera in Rome: 578
• Roger North FROM Memoirs of Music: 585
• Grazioso Uberti FROM The Musical Disagreement: 593
• Lodovico Viadana Preface to One Hundred Sacred Concertos: 617
• Anonymous FROM The Choragus or Some Observations: 629
• Christopher Simpson FROM The DivisionViol or The Art: 635
• Georg Muffat FROM Prefaces to Florilegia: 644
• Jacopo Peri Preface to The Music for Euridice: 659
• Claudio Monteverdi Preface to Madrigali guerrieri: 665
• François Raguenet FROM A Comparison between the French: 671
• Jean Laurent Le Cerf de la Viéville FROM Comparison: 679
• Pier Jacopo Martello FROM On Ancient and Modern: 686
• Johann Mattheson FROM The Complete Music Director: 696
• Athanasius Kircher FROM Musurgia universalis or The Great: 708
• Barbados: 712
• Charles Fonton FROM Essay on Oriental Music Compared: 721
• GLOSSARY OF FOREIGN PERFORMANCE TERMS: 731
• INTRODUCTION: 737
• Johann Philipp Kirnberger FROM The Art of Strict Musical: 762
• Heinrich Christoph Koch FROM Introductory Essay: 777
• Heinrich Christoph Koch FROM Introductory Essay: 807
• Francesco Galeazzi FROM TheoreticalPractical Elements: 819
• JérômeJoseph de Momigny FROM A Complete Course: 826
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach FROM Essay on the Proper: 851
• Daniel Gottlob Türk FROM School of Clavier Playing: 875
• JeanJacques Rousseau FROM Letter on French Music: 895
• Francesco Algarotti FROM An Essay on the Opera: 909
• Denis Diderot FROM Rameaus Nephew: 922
• Christoph Willibald Gluck Dedication for Alceste: 932
• JeanJacques Rousseau FROM Essay on the Origin: 945
• Johann Jakob Engel FROM On Painting in Music: 954
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Letters to His Father: 965
• Germaine de Staël FROM Letters on Rousseau: 980
• Charles Burney FROM The Present State of Music in France: 989
• Susannah Burney FROM LetterJournal 177980: 1000
• Johann Nikolaus Forkel FROM A General History: 1012
• Johann Friedrich Reichardt FROM Personal Letters Written: 1029
• INTRODUCTION: 1045
• Jean Paul FROM Elementary Course in Aesthetics: 1055
• Wilhelm Wackenroder The Remarkable Musical Life of: 1061
• Margaret Fuller FROM Lives of the Great Composers: 1072
• George Eliot FROM Daniel Deronda: 1076
• THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE: 1083
• Giuseppe Mazzini FROM Philosophy of Music: 1085
• Richard Wagner FROM The Artwork of the Future: 1094
• Adolf Bernhard Marx FROM The Music of the Nineteenth Century: 1112
• MUSIC CRITICISM: 1121
• FrançoisJoseph Fétis The Concert of Monsieur Chopin from Warsaw: 1123
• Hector Berlioz Rossinis William Tell: 1125
• Robert Schumann FROM Davidsbündlerblätter: 1141
• Franz Liszt and Carolyne von SaynWittgenstein FROM Berlioz and His Harold Symphony: 1158
• John Sullivan Dwight The National Peace Jubilee: 1175
• MUSICAL MEANING AND EXPRESSION: 1191
• Ε Τ A Hoffmann Beethovens Instrumental Music: 1193
• MarcAndré Souchay and Felix Mendelssohn An Exchange of Letters: 1198
• Eduard Hanslick FROM Vom MusikalischSchönen: 1202
• Edmund Gurney FROM The Power of Sound: 1211
• MUSIC THEORY AND PEDAGOGY: 1221
• Adolf Bernhard Marx FROM The Theory of Musical Composition: 1223
• Hermann Helmholtz FROM On the Sensations of Tone: 1231
• Amy Fay FROM MusicStudy in Germany: 1240
• MUSICAL ENCOUNTERS: 1247
• Antonín Dvořák Music in America: 1249
• Frederick Douglass FROM My Bondage and My Freedom: 1258
• Richard Wallaschek FROM Primitive Music: 1262
• THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Edited by ROBERT P MORGAN: 1271
• INTRODUCTION: 1273
• ESTHETIC POSITIONS: 1281
• Arnold Schoenberg Two Letters to Ferruccio Busoni: 1283
• Jean Cocteau FROM Cock and Harlequin: 1290
• Igor Stravinsky FROM Poetics of Music: 1294
• John Cage Experimental Music: 1300
• Milton Babbitt Who Cares if You Listen?: 1305
• Evan Ziporyn Who Listens if You Care?: 1311
• EXPANDED SONIC RESOURCES: 1319
• Ferruccio Busoni FROM Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music: 1321
• Luigi Russolo The Art of Noises: 1328
• Charles Ives Music and Its Future: 1334
• Edgard Varèse The Liberation of Sound: 1339
• Pierre Boulez Tendencies in Recent Music: 1346
• COMPOSITIONAL APPROACHES: 1353
• Arnold Schoenberg FROM Composition with Twelve Tones: 1355
• Karlheinz Stockhausen FROM The Concept of Unity in Electronic Music: 1366
• Iannis Xenakis Free Stochastic Music: 1371
• György Ligeti FROM Metamorphoses of Musical Form: 1376
• Steve Reich FROM Writings about Music: 1385
• MUSIC SOCIETY POLITICS: 1391
• Kurt Weill Shifts in Musical Production: 1393
• Joseph Goebbels Speech for the Düsseldorf Music Festival: 1395
• Pravda Chaos Instead of Music: 1397
• Sergey Prokofiev Three Commentaries: 1399
• Dmitri Shostakovich FROM Testimony: 1402
• Marian Anderson FROм My Lord What a Morning: 1406
• Draft Constitution: 1409
• Differently?: 1415
• William Grant Still FROM Horizons Unlimited: 1421
• Darius Milhaud FROM Notes without Music: 1442
• Bruno Nettl FROM Mozart and the Ethnomusicological Study: 1449
• CONCERT LIFE RECEPTION AND: 1459
• Lawrence Gilman: 1469
• Steven Connor FROM Postmodernist Culture: 1475
• Erik Satie FROM Memoirs of an Amnesiac: 1485
• Leonard B Meyer: 1494
• Umberto Eco FROM The Poetics of the Open Work: 1504
• INDEX: 1515

About the author

Leo Treitler, Distinguished Professor of Music at the City University of New York, is the author of Music and the Historical Imagination, as well as other books and articles on music historiography and medieval music.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Source Readings in Music History; Source Readings in Music History
• Author: William Oliver Strunk
• Editors: William Oliver Strunk, Leo Treitler
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998
• ISBN: 0393037525, 9780393037524
• Length: 1552 pages
• Subjects: Music / General; Music / History & Criticism; Music / Reference