On the Origin and Progress of the Art of Music by John Taverner

Joseph M. Ortiz

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English

Routledge
13 September 2018

The Arts: General & Reference; Theory of music & musicology; Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)

Series: Music Theory in Britain, 1500–1700: Critical Editions

"John Taverner’s lectures on music constitute the only extant version of a complete university course in music in early modern England. Originally composed in 1611 in both English and Latin, they were delivered at Gresham College in London between 1611 and 1638, and it is likely that Taverner intended at some point to publish the lectures in the form of a music treatise. The lectures, which Taverner collectively titled De Ortu et Progressu Artis Musicæ (""On the Origin and Progress of the Art of Music""), represent a clear attempt to ground musical education in humanist study, particularly in Latin and Greek philology. Taverner’s reliance on classical and humanist writers attests to the durability of music’s association with rhetoric and philology, an approach to music that is too often assigned to early Tudor England. Taverner is also a noteworthy player in the seventeenth-century Protestant debates over music, explicitly defending music against Reformist polemicists who see music as an overly sensuous activity.

In this first published edition of Taverner’s musical writings, Joseph M. Ortiz comprehensively introduces, edits, and annotates the text of the lectures, and an appendix contains the existing Latin version of Taverner’s text. By shedding light on a neglected figure in English Renaissance music history, this edition is a significant contribution to the study of musical thought in Renaissance England, humanism, Protestant Reformism, and the history of education."

By: Joseph M. Ortiz
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 394g
ISBN: 9781138633698
ISBN 10: 1138633690
Series: Music Theory in Britain, 1500–1700: Critical Editions
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 13 September 2018
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures Series editor’s preface Acknowledgments Introduction I Taverner and Gresham College 1 Biography of John Taverner 2 The founding of Gresham College 3 John Bull and the Gresham music professorship 4 Taverner and the evolution of the Gresham music professorship 5 Audiences and readers of the Gresham lectures II Taverner’s music lectures 1 Overview and form of the lectures 2 Humanism and philology in the lectures 3 The Reformist critique of music 4 Evolving ideas of musical literacy On the origin and progress of the art of music (English lectures) Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5 Lecture 6 Lecture 7 Lecture 8 Lecture 9 Appendix: Taverner’s Gresham College music lectures in Latin Editorial note Lecture 0 (inaugural lecture) Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5 Lecture 6 Lecture 7 Bibliography Index

Joseph M. Ortiz is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he teaches Renaissance and comparative literature. He is the author of Broken Harmony: Shakespeare and the Politics of Music (2011) and the editor of Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism (2013). He has written several articles and chapters on Renaissance literature, Renaissance musical thought, and the reception of classical culture in Renaissance Europe.