International Journal of Music and Performing Arts

Some Considerations on the Relationship between Humanist Thinking and the Change in Texture in the Music of the Early Baroque
Jorge A. Falcón ; Martin Herraiz

Abstract
This study aims to carry out some considerations about the changes that took place in music during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. We discuss Humanism as an intellectual, philosophical, and artistic movement, as well as its consequences in the way art was produced and in the techniques that express these changes. Painting and literature serve as theoretical frameworks for the introduction of elements that help to understand more specific changes in the field of music, particularly the change in texture. Some studies in the field of cognition are also considered, so as to determine fundamentals of perceptual psychology that may justify such changes in musical texture.

Full Text: PDF     DOI: 10.15640/ijmpa.v4n1a4