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Medieval Music: Renaissance Music
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In 1989, he sold Radio Tokyo to pursue his growing interest in medieval and renaissance music. He began full-time study of the Hurdy-Gurdy, a medieval stringed instrument that is played by turning a crank. He ... learned to play the nyckelharpa, a medieval Scandinavian stringed instrument played with a bow, and moved to Sweden for several months to take lessons. He recorded several albums using a medieval instruments and performed at many festivals, including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Two of his records - 1995's "Shaking Hands With Kafka" and "What Rough Beast" in 1996 - received little commercial success but did generated many positive reviews for his originality. Most recently, the eerie sound of his hurdy-gurdy was used in the soundtrack of the Susan Sarandon movie "Ice Bound."
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Demarcating the end of the medieval era and the beginning of the Renaissance, with regards to the composition of music, is problematic. While the music of the fourteenth century is fairly obviously medieval in conception, the music of the early fifteenth century is often conceived as belonging to a transitional period, not only retaining some of the ideals of the end of the Middle Ages (such as a type of polyphonic writing in which the parts differ widely from each other in character, as each has its specific textural function), but ... showing some of the characteristic traits of the Renaissance (such as the international style developing through the diffusion of Franco-Flemish musicians throughout Europe, and in terms of texture an increasing equality of parts). The Renaissance began early in Italy, but musical innovation there lagged far behind that of France and England; the Renaissance came late to England, but musical innovation there was ahead of continental Europe.
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The commonly used end of the period of medieval music is the beginning of the Renaissance around 1400. The Renaissance brought about sweeping changes in all of the arts and sciences including music.
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Students compose a piece of music reflecting the features of pitch (melody and harmony) and structure of music of the medieval or renaissance periods. The composition must have 2–3 parts or voices and must be between 24 and 32 bars in length.
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This guide is intended to provide a selective list of reference tools for research into the history of medieval and renaissance music. It should be used in conjunction with the UM Libraries Basic Music Reference Guide. [http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/music-basic.html]
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This list enables those engaged on research into any aspect of Medieval and Renaissance Music to exchange information. This includes questions of research, conference details and reports, library information and any other useful material.
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