Richard Freedman, Music in the Renaissance

Jennifer S. Thomas University of Florida

Keywords: textbook, Renaissance

Abstract

Music in the Renaissance, part of the series Western Music in Context, offers an alternative to the comprehensive, total package approach to teaching music history, offering instead a research-based textbook, selective in both content and musical repertory. Viewing music as a part of culture rather than as stylistic end in itself allows learners to comprehend not only what music was like, but why it existed and how it functioned. Accompanying websites enrich the text with links to scholarship, primary sources for both music and culture, and traditional study tools, such as worksheets and listening lists.

Author Biography

Jennifer S. Thomas, University of Florida

Jennifer Thomas is an associate professor of musicology at the University of Florida and is the creator of the Motet Database Online. Her current research interests center on the core repertory motets that emerged between 1480 and 1520 and what they teach us about musical culture of the period. She has authored reviews, articles and papers on related topics and presented her research findings nationally and internationally. Her book in progress is The Genesis of an International Musical Style and the Motet Core Repertory, 1480-1520. She directs the Motet Choir at the University of Florida in order to perform works related to the core repertory not presently available on commercial recordings.

Published

2014-08-25

Issue

Vol 5 No 1: (Fall 2014)

Section

Reviews

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