Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts

by Iain Fenlon (Editor)

Overview

This volume consists of original papers first read at King's College, Cambridge, in 1979 at an international conference on medieval and Renaissance music. The contributors are distinguished in a wide variety of musicological interests but all are concerned in one way or another with pursuing the most urgent and promising directions for research in early music history. The result, far from being merely a further collection of essays applying well-tried approaches to familiar material, constantly seeks to expand the scope of musicology itself, and many of the contributions arc inter-disciplinary in method. The four main topics of the conference were carefully chosen, with some editorial control exercised for each session. This is reflected in four sections of closely related papers in the book. Two of these are concerned with the patronage of music: by the Church in fifteenth-century England, Italy and France, and in a broader context in Italy from 1450 to 1550. A group of essays on sixteenth-century instrumental music separates these, and the book concludes with five papers on theories of filiation as applied to music sources from the tenth to the sixteenth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521107389
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/02/2009
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. Church Patronage of Music in Fifteenth-century Europe; 1 Obligation, agency and laissez-faire: the promotion of polyphonic composition for the Church in fifteenth-century England Roger Bowers; 2. Church patronage of music in fifteenth-century Italy Giulio Cattin; 3. Antoine Brumel and patronage in Paris Craig Wright; Part II. Sixteenth-century Instrumental Music; 4. Notes (and transposing notes) on the viol in the early sixteenth century Howard Mayer Brown; 5. Songs without words by Josquin and his contemporaries Warwick Edwards; 6. Instrumental music, songs and verse from sixteenth-century Winchester: British Library Additional MS 60577 Iain Fenlon; 7. On Italian instrumental ensemble music in the late fifteenth century Louise Litterick; 8. Instrumental versions, c. 1515–1544, of a late-fifteenth-century Flemish chanson, O waerde mont H. Colin Slim; Part III. Music and Patronage in Italy 1450–1550: 9. The early madrigal: a re-appraisal of its sources and its character James Haar; 10. Music at the Venetian Scuole Grandi, 1440–1540 Jonathan Glixon; 11. Antonio Gardane's early connections with the Willaert circle Mary S. Lewis; 12. Strategies of music patronage in the fifteenth century: the cappella of Ercole I d'Este Lewis Lockwood; Part IV. Stemmatics and Music Sources: 13. Conflicting attributions in Italian sources of the Franco-Netherlandish chanson, c. 1465 – c. 1505: a progress report on a new hypothesis Allan W. Atlas; 14. Some criteria for establishing relationships between sources of late-medieval polyphony Margaret Bent; 15. Limitations and extensions of filiation technique Stanley Boorman; 16. The transmission of medieval chant Alejandro Enrique Planchart; 17. The problem of chronology in the transmission of organum duplum Edward H. Roesner.