The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft: 'Treatise of Practicall Musicke' and A Briefe Discourse

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Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both 1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of the Whole Booke of Psalmes (1621) and his original sacred works. A theorist as well as a composer and editor, Ravenscroft wrote two treatises on music theory: the well-known A Briefe Discourse (1614), and 'A Treatise of Practicall Musicke' (c.1607), which remains in manuscript. This is the first book to bring together both theoretical works by this important Jacobean musician and to provide critical studies and transcriptions of these treatises. A Briefe Discourse furthermore introduces an anthology of music by Ravenscroft, John Bennet, and Ravenscroft's mentor, Edward Pearce, illustrating some of the precepts in the treatise. The critical discussion provided by Duffin will help explain Ravenscroft's complicated consideration of mensuration, in particular. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Series Editor’s Preface List of Figures Acknowledgements General Introduction Ravenscroft’s Biography Ravenscroft’s Circle Introduction to the Treatises ‘Treatise of Practicall Musicke’ (British Library Additional MS 19758) A Briefe Discourse Relationship between the Treatises The Legacy of the Treatises Harmonicall Examples ‘Treatise of Practicall Musicke’ (British Library Additional MS 19758) Notes A Briefe Discourse Notes Harmonicall Examples HUNTING 1. A Hunts vp 2. A Hunting Song HAWKING 3. A Hawks vp for a Hunts vp 4. For the Partridge 5. For the Hearne & Duck DAUNCING 6. Fayries Daunce 7. Satyres Daunce 8. Vrchins Daunce 9. Elues Daunce DRINKING 10. Of Beere 11. Of Ale 12. Of Ale and Tobacco ENAMORING 13. Three Fooles 14. The Seruant of his Mistris 15. The Mistris of her Seruant 16. Their Mariage solemnized 17. Hodge Trillindle to his Sweet hort Malkyn 18. Malkyns answer to Hodge Trillindle 19. Their Gongluzion 20. Their Wedlocke Notes Bibliography Index