Masters Theses

Date of Award

6-1983

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Major

Music

Major Professor

Stephen E. Young

Committee Members

Allen E. Johnson, Dorothy M. Hall, George F. DeVine

Abstract

Any art-work conceived and executed in a particular cultural epoch will reflect the thoughts and feelings which are prevalent This holds true not only for works of art, but Though there exist inherent differences between the arts, they reflect the views, thoughts, and feelings of their practitioners, and share common elements when considered within the same chronological period and geographical area.

In this study, we will deal with two important chroniclers of Giorgio Vasari, whose concern was with the visual arts, and Heinrich Glarean, whose writings dealt with music. These two men discuss topics of common concern within the areas of music and art, and we will describe several of these topics in the light of these two men's writings. (1) the idea of historical progressivity; (2) the striving for perfection within the arts; (3) the concept of the artist-genius; (4) the concept of musica reservata as it applies to both Glarean's thought within that epoch. for artistic criticism as well. the sixteenth century: The topics to be outlined are: and the visual arts as described by Vasari.

Glarean and Vasari share backgrounds that were shaped by the humanist movement during the Renaissance, The major trait of humanism was the study of the writings of ancient Greece and Rome, and the introduction, through a strict educational scheme, of ancient principles into modern life. These two men also lived during a period of artistic activity which has been called, by modern scholars, mannerism. Mannerism is a concept which has yet to be precisely defined, not our intention, through this thesis, to attempt a definition of mannerism; rather, we will rely on the characteristics of the mannerist movement as set forth by twentieth-century scholars, and thus observe whether any of the views expressed by Vasari or Glarean are reflected in these characteristics of mannerism.

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