Available online
Description
In this illustrated talk Professor Arnold deals with the relationship between Renaissance ideas and Renaissance music, and traces the considerable influence during the fifteenth and sixteenth centu...ries of academic theorists who wished to re-create the music of classical Greece. Obviously Renaissance music was never a direct 're-birth' of Greek and Graeco-Roman music, since only the mathematical bases of Greek music were known to Renaissance scholars. But philosophical ideas about music were extremely influential in the development of chromaticism and at a later stage these ideas contributed towards a greater emphasis on the story of music - that is the words of a song and not simply its sounds - and thus helped in the birth and development of the English madrigal. The music in the programme includes works by Luzzaschi, Arcadelt, Trombonico and a madrigal by Weelkes.
In this illustrated talk Professor Arnold deals with the relationship between Renaissance ideas and Renaissance music, and traces the considerable influence during the fifteenth and sixteenth centu...ries of academic theorists who wished to re-create the music of classical Greece. Obviously Renaissance music was never a direct 're-birth' of Greek and Graeco-Roman music, since only the mathematical bases of Greek music were known to Renaissance scholars. But philosophical ideas about music were extremely influential in the development of chromaticism and at a later stage these ideas contributed towards a greater emphasis on the story of music - that is the words of a song and not simply its sounds - and thus helped in the birth and development of the English madrigal. The music in the programme includes works by Luzzaschi, Arcadelt, Trombonico and a madrigal by Weelkes.
| Module code and title: | A201, Renaissance and Reformation |
|---|---|
| Item code: | A201; 17 |
| Recording date: | 1971-10-15 |
| First transmission date: | 15-05-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:18:18 |
| + Show more... | |
| Producer: | John Selwyn Gilbert |
| Contributor: | Denis Arnold |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Academic theorists; Classical Greece; English madrigal |
| Master spool number: | TLN41FM208J |
| Production number: | TLN41FM208J |
| Available to public: | no |
