Reviews: Johannes Tinctoris: Complete Theoretical Works
2014; University of California Press; Volume: 67; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/jams.2014.67.3.839
ISSN1547-3848
Autores Tópico(s)Diverse Musicological Studies
ResumoJohannes Tinctoris: Complete Theoretical Works . Ronald Woodley, Director. URL: http://earlymusictheory.org/Tinctoris/ Johannes Tinctoris (ca. 1435–1511) is today widely recognized as one of the most articulate music writers of his generation and as a perceptive observer of the musical practices of his time. The sizeable body of musical tracts and treatises that he authored early in his career easily amounts to the most comprehensive summa of the aesthetics and pedagogy of music from the decades around 1500 that has come down to us. Not surprisingly, then, modern scholars often turn to Tinctoris when seeking to piece together a “native” perspective on both technical issues (such as mode and counterpoint) and broader aspects of musical culture (such as the listening experience and the evolution of musical style). Tinctoris's observation, around 1473, that the musical works older than forty years were no longer fashionable in his days continues to inform the historiographic debate on the origin of the musical “Renaissance.” Tinctoris penned his twelve extant musical treatises during the 1470s in Naples, where he was in the service of the court of King Ferrante of Aragon as chaplain, legal advisor, and—until 1476—music tutor of Ferrante's daughter Beatrice. The chronology of his musical writings is a matter of some debate. According to Ronald Woodley and Rob Wegman, most of Tinctoris's treatises date to the period immediately after his arrival in Naples (ca. 1472–75).1 These include the Expositio manus , on the gamut and solmization; the Proportionale musices , on proportions and their application to musical notation; the Complexus effectuum musices , on the benefits of music and its effects on the soul;2 the first compilation of the Terminorum musicae diffinitorium , one of the earliest dictionaries of musical terms and the only finished treatise that Tinctoris gave to the press, and the group of several small tracts dealing with mensural notation, such as …
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