Nikolaus Gengenbach's Musica nova: Newe Singekunst ("New Music: New Art of Singing") is a school music textbook that was published in 1626 during Gengenbach's tenure as cantor of the Zeitz city schools. Gengenbach was one of the most progressive educators of the early seventeenth century, and in his textbook he utilized new methods for teaching musical skills. Gengenbach was also one of the first educators to point his students toward the new Italian or Italian-influenced composers, such as Viadana, Schein, and Schutz, for models, rather than looking back at the masters of an older generation. / Musica nova is divided into three sections: theoretical, in which the fundamental elements of music are explained; practical, which consists of a series of graduated practice exercises keyed to the material in the first section; and terminological, which is a glossary of Greek, Latin, and Italian musical terms. Progressive features of the treatise include Gengenbach's advocacy of two new solmization methods, bobization and bebization, and his use of octave equivalence to teach intervals larger than the sixth. / The dissertation is a complete translation of Gengenbach's work, along with a transcription of the original text into modern German characters. The commentary describes Gengenbach's career as a cantor and educator, and examines his pedagogical methodology as revealed in Musica nova. Other chapters discuss bobization and bebization, Musica nova's place in the history of Protestant school music texts, and the musical content of the treatise. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-08, Section: A, page: 2933. / Major Professor: Jeffrey Kite-Powell. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77542 |
| Contributors | Scott, Dale Allen., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 333 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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