Thesis
John Cosyn's Musike in six and fiue partes newly notated and completed
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2010
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/100614
Abstract
In 1585, English musician John Cosyn (d. 1609) published his Musike of Six, and Fiue partes, a collection of harmonized metrical psalms. Unfortunately this work has not survived in complete form to the present. This thesis reconstructs the missing cantus (i.e. highest-most) part and assembles this in full score with the remaining parts (altus, tenor, quintus, sextus, and bassus) all transcribed into modern notation. The thesis includes eighteen settings of tunes that remain in modern print and usage. Also included are nine additional transcriptions from Cosyn's work that require no partreconstruction, but are included because they are in fact complete in the available sources and therefore most clearly of any of the music in this collection uncover Cosyn's purpose and compositional approach. Commentary on and analysis of Cosyn's overlooked collection and biographical detail about Cosyn himself accompany the twenty-seven modern-notation transcriptions. It is the writer's intent to make a significant portion from Cosyn's ambitious work accessible and available to scholars and performers for the first time
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Details
- Title
- John Cosyn's Musike in six and fiue partes newly notated and completed
- Creators
- Mark C. Reagan
- Contributors
- Lori Wiest (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Music, School of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900525384301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis