[Smt-talk] quick query

[VINCENT PEREZ BENITEZ JR]

Dear Colleagues,

I would encourage everyone to read Benito V. Rivera's translation of Burmeister's Musica poetica (Musical Poetics, Yale University Press, 1993) for the analysis of the Lassus motet. Rivera examines Burmeister's two earlier treatises on musical composition in his introduction and then analyzes Musica poetica as a whole, setting it within its historical context. I value the fact that Rivera includes the Latin text and musical examples of Burmeister on the facing page with his translation and transcriptions on the other. In an appendix, Rivera includes passages of music cited by Burmeister, which assists with the interpretation of the musical-rhetorical figures found in Musica poetica.

All the very best, 

Vincent Benitez, Ph.D., D.M.A.
Penn State University

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From: "Theodora Psychoyou" <theodora.psychoyou at paris-sorbonne.fr>
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Dear colleagues, 
I guess that this would be the analysis of Roland de Lassus's motet "In me transierunt" by Joachim Burmeister, in his 1606 Musica Poetica (cap. XV - De Analysi sive Dispositione Carminis Musici) . Burmeister is the one who introduced the term of "music analysis", in this text, and he tries, exemplum gratia in the 15th -- and last -- chapter, a systematic analysis of this motet, using the dispositio and elocutio tools, coming from the classic rhetorics model. 
Yours Best, 
Théodora Psychoyou 


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Théodora Psychoyou theodora.psychoyou at paris-sorbonne.fr -- 
Maître de conférences - Musique baroque
Université de Paris-Sorbonne
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Le 14/02/2013 13:48, Michael Morse a écrit : 



Dear Colleagues, 


Is there any consensus on what counts as the first piece of music analysis? What are the contenders? 


Thnks, 


Michael Morse 
Cultural Studies 
Trent University 
Peterborough, Oshawa 


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