Music and culture in the Middle Ages and beyond : liturgy, sources, symbolism / edited by Benjamin Brand, David J. Rothenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brand, Benjamin David, 1977- editor.

Rothenberg, David J. (David Joseph), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--500-1400--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--15th century--History and criticism.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 362 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

It has become widely accepted among musicologists that medieval music is most profitably studied from interdisciplinary perspectives that situate it within broad cultural contexts. The origins of this consensus lie in a decisive reorientation of the field that began approximately four decades ago. For much of the twentieth century, research on medieval music had focused on the discovery and evaluation of musical and theoretical sources. The 1970s and 1980s, by contrast, witnessed calls for broader methodologies and more fully contextual approaches that in turn anticipated the emergence of the so-called 'New Musicology'. The fifteen essays in the present collection explore three interrelated areas of inquiry that proved particularly significant: the liturgy, sources (musical and archival), and musical symbolism. In so doing, these essays not only acknowledge past achievements but also illustrate how this broad, interdisciplinary approach remains a source for scholarly innovation.

Contents:

Music and liturgy in medieval Capua / Thomas Forrest Kelly

The model antiphon series Primum quaerite in Hucbald's office In plateis and in other post-carolingian chant: theory meets practice / Barbara Haggh-Huglo

Singing from the pulpit: improvised polyphony and public ritual in medieval Tuscany / Benjamin Brand

Liturgy and politics in Renaissance Florence: the creation of the 1526 Office for St. Zenobius / Marica S. Tacconi

Music and pageantry in the formation of Hispano-Christian identity: the feast of St. Hippolytus in sixteenth-century Mexico City / Lorenzo Candelaria

The sources and the sanctorale: dating by the decade in thirteenth-century Paris / Rebecca A. Baltzer

Vernacular contexts for the monophonic motet: notes from a new source / Mark Everist

Tradition and innovation in fourteenth-century instrumental music: evidence from archival and musical sources / Keith Polk

Melchior or Marchion de Civilibus, prepositus brixiensis: new documents / Margaret Bent

Papal musicians at Cambrai in the early fifteenth century / Alejandro Enrique Planchart

Sixtus IV, the Franciscans, and the beginning of music printing in fifteenth-century Rome / Jane A. Bernstein

The gate that carries Christ: wordplay and liturgical imagery in a motet from ca. 1300 / David J. Rothenberg

A musical lesson for a king from the Roman de Fauvel / Anne Walters Robertson

Preaching to the choir? : Obrecht's motet for the dedication of the Church / M. Jennifer Bloxam

The Madonna triptych : a mystical reading of three early music videos / Andrew Tomasello.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Nov 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-79868-2

1-316-79922-0

1-316-79931-X

1-316-79940-9

1-316-66383-3

1-316-79949-2

1-316-79976-X