Networks of music and culture in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries : a collection of essays in celebration of Peter Philips's 450th anniversary / edited by David J. Smith, Rachelle Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Philips, Peter, 1561-1628.

Smith, David J. (David John), 1965-

Taylor, Rachelle.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philips, Peter, 1561-1628.

Philips, Peter.

Music--16th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--17th century--History and criticism.

Music--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Peter Philips (1561-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting musical, social, religious and political networks linking him with some of the key international players in these spheres. In this book, Philips's life and music serve as a touchstone for a discussion of various kinds of network in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The study of networks enriches our appreciation and understanding of musicians and the context in which they worked. The wider implication of this approach is a constructive challenge to orthod

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Music Examples; List of Appendices; Manuscript Sigla and Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The Interconnection of Religious, Social and Musical Networks: Creating a Context for the Keyboard Music of Peter Philips and its Dissemination; 3 The Liber fratrum cruciferorum Leodiensium and the Dissemination of Organ Repertoire in the Netherlands during the Seventeenth Century; 4 The Pious Mr Philips and his Few-Voiced Motets at Isabella's Confraternity of Our Lady

5 The Ear of the Lynx: The Musical Legacy of the Accademia dei Lincei6 Politics, Religion, Style and the Passamezzo Galliards of Byrd and Philips: A Discussion of Networks Involving Byrd and his Disciples; 7 Musical Rhetoric Lost in Translation: National, Religious and Linguistic Networks and the Determination of Title in Sweelinck's Organ Variations on Psalm 36; 8 What is a Composer? Problems of Attribution in Keyboard Music from the Circle of Philips and Sweelinck; 9 Orlando Gibbons's Keyboard Music: The Continental Perspective

10 A Pattern Recognition Approach to the Attribution of Early Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Compositions using Features of Diminutions11 'Full of Art, and Profundity': The Five-Part Consort Pavan as a Medium for Sophisticated Musical Expression and Compositional Cross-Reference in Late Renaissance England; 12 Networking, Patronage and Professionalism in the Early History of Violin Playing: The Case of William Brade (c.1560-1630); 13 Practice and Dissemination of Music in the Catholic Network as Suggested by the Music Collection of Edward Paston (1550-1630) and Other Contemporary Sources

14 Social Networking in Seventeenth-Century Italy: The 'Harmonious Letters' of a Monk-MusicianBibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-59784-5

1-317-08880-8

1-4724-1199-4

9781315597843

OCLC:

864414616