Produced by Early Music Estonia for NOVIA University of Applied Science, Finland. Hosted by Aira Maria Lehtipuu, whose voice you will hear, asking penetrating questions...
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In this Part 1:
INTRODUCTION
Looking backwards through history?
Renaissance & Baroque
A view from the inside - practices and aims
What is Early Music?
The Past is a foreign country...
False binaries & conductors
Concepts & Context
NOTATION
What is Music?
Part-books, Choirbooks, Tablature
Clefs & Chiavette
Hexachords
Chant
Note-values
Mensuration signs
Ligatures
White notation, perfection, Black notation
TIME
What is Time?
Relativity remains counter-intuitive
We think of Time as a fixed scale
Newton's Absolute Time 1687
Music of an Earlier Time
Aristotelean Time
Calibrating musical Notation to real-world Time
Tactus & Proportions
Text
Ella Fitzgerald
INTERMEDIO
Part 2, PERFORMANCE PRIORITIES, DELIVERY, ACTION, EPILOGUE, is here:
• Old & New: Introductio...