Isaac Vossius's De poematum cantu et viribus rhythmi, 1673 - Peter Martens

Isaac Vossius's De poematum cantu et viribus rhythmi, 1673

On the Music of Poetry and Power of Rhythm

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Buch | Hardcover
194 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-30593-6 (ISBN)
155,85 inkl. MwSt
Dr Peter Martens provides the first complete edited English translation of, and commentary on, Isaac Vossius’s De poematum cantu et viribus rythmi, a late seventeenth-century work of Continental musical humanism, all the more interesting for being published in England and dedicated to royalist Henry Bennett, Duke of Arlington.
Dr Peter Martens provides the first complete edited English translation of, and commentary on, Issac Vossius’s De poematum cantu et viribus rythmi, a late seventeenth-century work of Continental musical humanism, all the more interesting for being published in England and dedicated to royalist Henry Bennett, Duke of Arlington. This treatise plays an important but poorly understood role in the continued development of rhythmopoeia; Vossius continues the arguments of figures such as Vincenzo Galilei and Marin Mersenne - desiring to link linguistic rhythm, music, and the passions - by proposing a practical, if undemonstrated, method for doing so based on ancient poetic feet. This resuscitation of poetic feet in the service of affect is made explicit by Vossius, but is undoubtedly more familiar to musicologists from Wolfgang Caspar Printz's 1696 Phrynis Mitilenaeus or Johann Mattheson's 1739 Der vollkommene Capellmeister. Vossius, or more correctly, De poematum cantu, was often cited during the century after its publication, and no modern treatment of rhythmopoeia seems complete without a citation or short excerpt from this work. There is little secondary literature that focuses on this treatise, but what does exist links this work directly to John Dryden's composition of his 1687 and 1697 St. Cecilia odes, and their musical settings by Giovanni Battista Draghi and Jeremiah Clarke, respectively. In Dean Mace and H. Neville Davies' debate over the extent of Vossius's influence on these works can be found a rich picture of the contentious issues surrounding text-setting and musical affect that so occupied a great many writers in late-seventeenth-century England. A full translation and accompanying discussion of Vossius's own sources and musical influences allows English-language students and scholars to access and study this work in the depth and to the degree it deserves.

Peter Martens is Professor of Music Theory at Texas Tech University and serves as Associate Dean for Faculty, Research and Creative Activity in the Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts. Dr. Martens holds bachelor’s degrees in music and classics from Lawrence University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the History and Theory of Music from the University of Chicago.

1. Introductory essay
2. English translation
3. Original Latin text
4. Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Music Theory in Britain, 1500–1700: Critical Editions
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 400 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10 1-032-30593-2 / 1032305932
ISBN-13 978-1-032-30593-6 / 9781032305936
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