Singing upon the book in the Renaissance

The list of counterpoint treatises which document the reality and practice of improvised counterpoint includes links to the sources or their editions, whenever available online. Editions and translations of original theoretical texts can be browsed and downloaded. The website also includes the edition in modern clefs of the musical examples contained in the De arte de contrapunto and the Introdutione facilissima (1553) of the portuguese composer Vicente Lusitano. Out of the 250 music examples that can be dowloaded in PDF format, 60 of them have been recorded by the ensemble Les Sacqueboutiers, and are available in MP3 format. Singing upon the Book in the Renaissance is the companion website of Chanter sur le livre à la Renaissance. Les traités de contrepoint de Vicente Lusitano (ed. Ph. Canguilhem, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013). It extends and develops the research undertaken since 2008 within the Fabrica project funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche at the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, which results were also published in Ph. Canguilhem, L'improvisation polyphonique à la Renaissance (Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2015).

Musicologists interested in contributing are invited to contact the responsible of the project, Philippe Canguilhem.

External links

Chanter sur le livre à la Renaissance. Les traités de contrepoint de Vicente Lusitano (Turnhout, Brepols, 2013)
L’Improvisation polyphonique à la Renaissance (Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2015)
FABRICA Project (Go to)