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Language Arts & Disciplines Translating & Interpreting

Music Discourse from Classical to Early Modern Times

Editing and Translating Texts

edited by Maria Rika Maniates

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jul 1997
Category
Translating & Interpreting, Medieval, History & Criticism
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802009722
    Publish Date
    Jul 1997
    List Price
    $68.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442677463
    Publish Date
    Jun 1997
    List Price
    $66.00

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Description

The study of medieval and Renaissance music relies heavily on scholarly editions and translations of theoretical and liturgical sources to provide means of interpreting notation, style, and compositional processes. The editing of these texts and sources remains challenging for professional musicologists and social historians, as all musicologists must either translate or use translations of texts for their own research.

The five essays in this collection deal with the problems inherent in editing and translating writings on such diverse subjects as music theory, harmonic science, composition, sociology, liturgy, and performance practice.

They represent a variety of disciplines, not only in respect to their individual fields of inquiry, but with respect to the study of music itself, embracing musicology and ethnomusicology, historical and systematic research, philology and hermeneutics. The general and particular legacy of the ancient classics as a stable element in music discourse is a common thread that binds the essays together.

About the author

Maria Rika Maniates is Professor Emerita and presently teaches in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto.

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