Music and Riddle Culture in the Renaissance Schiltz Katelijne Universitat Regensburg Germany
Music and Riddle Culture in the Renaissance Schiltz Katelijne Universitat Regensburg Germany Throughout the Renaissance, composers often expressed themselves in a language of riddles and puzzles,…
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Music and Riddle Culture in the Renaissance Schiltz Katelijne Universitat Regensburg Germany
Throughout the Renaissance, composers often expressed themselves in a language of riddles and puzzles, which they embedded within the music and lyrics of their compositions. Katelijne Schiltz focuses on the compositional, notational, practical, social and theoretical aspects of musical riddle culture c.1450-1620, from the works of Antoine Busnoys, Jacob Obrecht and Josquin des Prez to Lodovico Zacconi's manuscript collection of Canoni musicali. This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the period.
Lavishly illustrated and including a comprehensive catalogue by Bonnie J. Schiltz reveals how the riddle both invites and resists interpretation, the ways in which riddles imply a process of transformation and the consequences of these aspects for the riddle's conception, performance and reception. Blackburn of enigmatic inscriptions, this
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