Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music

by Edited by Iain Fenlon

• ISBN13: 9780521790734
• ISBN10: 0521790735
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. The scope is exceptionally broad and includes manuscript studies, textual criticism, iconography, studies of the relationship between words and music, and the relationship between music and society. Articles in volume 19 include: Ritual and Ceremony in the Spanish Royal Chapel, c. 1559-c. 1561; Urban Minstrels in Late Medieval Southern France; Mapping the Soundscapes: Church Music in English Towns 1450-1550; A New Look at Old-Roman Chant.

Table of Contents

Mapping the soundscape: church music in English towns, 1450-1550	1	(46)
Clive Burgess
Andrew Wathey
Fortune's demesne: the interrelation of text and music in Machaut's it mest avis (B22), De Fortune (B23) and two related anonymours balades	47	(34)
Elizabeth Eva Leach
A new look at Old Roman chant	81	(24)
Kenneth Levy
Ritual and ceremony in the Spanish royal chapel, c. 1559-c. 1561	105	(96)
Bernadette Nelson
Urban minstrels in late medieval southern France: opportunities, status and professional relationships	201	(36)
Gretchen Peters
Royal image-making and textual interplay in Gilbert Banaster's O Maria et Elizabeth	237	(42)
Magnus Williamson
REVIEWS
Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians	279	(12)
Kenneth Levy
Rosamond McKitterick
Spettacoli di corte a Mantova tra Cinque e Seicento	291
Claudia Buratelli
Tim Carter