Tonal Structures in Early Music (Criticism and Analysis of Early Music)

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Introduction, Analyzing Early Music / Cristle Collins Judd -- The Grammar Of Early Music : Preconditions For Analysis / Margaret Bent -- Exploring Tonal Structure In French Polyphonic Song Of The Fourteenth Century / Sarah Fuller -- Internal And External Views Of The Modes / Frans Wiering -- Josquin's Gospel Motets And Chant-based Tonality / Cristle Collins Judd -- Tonal Coherence And The Cycle Of Thirds In Josquin's Memor Esto Verbi Tui / Timothy H. Steele -- Concepts Of Pitch In English Music Theory, C. 1560-1640 / Jessie Ann Owens -- Concepts Of Key In Seventeenth-century English Keyboard Music / Candace Bailey -- From Psalmody To Tonality / Harold Powers -- Tonal Types And Modal Equivalence In Two Keyboard Cycles By Murchhauser / Michael Dodds. Edited By Cristle Collins Judd. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Discussion of tonal structure has been one of the most problematic and controversial aspects of modern study of Medieval and Renaissance polyphony. These new essays written specifically for this volume consider the issue from historical, analytical, theoretical, perceptual and cultural perspectives. Seminal contributions by the foremost scholars in the field--including Cristle Collins Judd, Margaret Bent, Sarah Fuller, Frans Wiering, Timothy Steele, Jessie Ann Owens, Candace Bailey, Harold Powers, and Michael Dodds--explore tensions now evident in analyzing early music and point in a number of new directions