Music in the Culture of the Renaissance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4456670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward E Lowinsky (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1954 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 509 |
| Publication date | 1954-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2707674 |
| OpenAlex | W2313172775 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Of all cultural manifestations none has been so long and so consistently neglected by the historian of Western civilization as music. This may have been due on the one hand to the inaccessibility of early music to the layman and on the other to the preoccupation of the historian of music with the immediate and gigantic task of transcribing, editing, and analyzing the vast body of music that has come down to us from the early Middle Ages. The advent of recordings of old music1 and the beginnings of a musical historiography centered around the cultural life of the time 2 are slowly initiating a change which, it may be hoped, will be reflected in the work of the future historian of civilization.3 The interpretation of the Renaissance in particular has been subject to such sharply divergent views, the clash of opinions has been so violent,4 that the historian of culture cannot fail to remember that there is one body of evidence he has not taken into account: that is the evidence of music. He may seek an answer to these principal questions: does music occupy a place in Renaissance culture important enough to warrant the assumption that it has something to contribute to the understanding of that period? If it does, what are the changes and innovations in the music of the Renaissance and how do they relate to the surrounding culture? In other words: what criteria can be established that will allow a clear differentiation between the music of the Middle Ages and that of the Renaissance
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Literature · The Renaissance · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Renaissance Literature and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1955 - 2021 (67) |
| Highly cited | No |