[Smt-talk] quick query

[Joel Galand]

Dear List:

There are also two fine articles  by the late Claude Palisca that deal with this very analysis:

Paliscal 1974.  "Toward an Intrinsically Music Definition of Mannerism in the Sixteenth century," STUDI MUSICALI 3:  313--346. 

[Here, other, much briefer analytical passages are also discussed--such as Vincenzo Galilei writing about Willaert's ASPRO CORE in the FROMINO (1568) and DIALOGO (1581).  But only the Burmeister can lay claim to being an analysis of an entire piece.]


Palisca 1970.  "Ut Oratoria Musica:  The Rhetorical Basis of Music Mannerism."  In THE MEANING OF MANNERISIM, ed. Franklin W. Robinson and Stephen G. Nichols, Jr. Hanover, New Hampshire:  University Press of New England.

[Here, Palisca provided a transcription of the entire motet and labels it with Burmeister's various rhetorical figures.  The figures in squares are those that Burmeister actually identifies.  Palisca adds further figures in brackets, supplementing Burmeister's rhetorical analysis by drawing on the German theorist's arsenal of rhetorical devices.  Burmeister does not, therefore, give us a complete rhetorical analysis, even by his own lights, but he singles out some of the particularly striking figures he encounters along the way.   An exhaustive analysis along these lines would probably have been too exhausting to read.  (Sorry--that is an old joke.)


Best,


Joel Galand
Associate Professor of Music Theory
Associate Director for Academic Affairs and Director of Graduate Studies
School of Music
Florida International University

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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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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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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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