John Jenkins and His Time Studies in English Consort Music

by Ashbee, Andrew; Holman, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780198164616
• ISBN10: 0198164610
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-02-20
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

John Jenkins (1592-1678) was a leading English composer of instrumental music in the mid-seventeenth century. These studies by leading experts focus not only on his life and work but also on the music of such contemporaries as Gibbons, Ferrabosco II, Mico, and Cobbold; period instruments; and consort manuscripts.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	xiii	(1)
List of Figures	xiv	(1)
List of Tables	xv	(2)
List of Music Examples	xvii	(4)
Abbreviations	xxi
1. Jenkins and the Cosmography of Harmony*	1	(74)
Christopher Field
2. Musical Apprenticeship in Noble Households*	75	(14)
Lynn Hulse
3. Gibbons in the Bedchamber	89	(22)
David Pinto
4. Convention and Transformation in Ferrabosco's Four-Part Fantasias	111	(26)
Bruce Bellingham
5. William Cobbold's `New Fashions': Some Notes Concerning the Reconstruction of the Missing Alto Part*	137	(24)
Joel Kramme
6. Mico and Jenkins: `Musitians of Fame under King Charles I'*	161	(10)
Andrew Hanley
7. `To Glorify Your Choir': The Context of Jenkins's Sacred Vocal Music*	171	(18)
Kathryn Smith
8. The Christ Church Viol-Consort Manuscripts Reconsidered: Christ Church, Oxford, Music Manuscripts 2, 397-408, and 436; 417-418 and 1080; and 432 and 612-613	189	(54)
Jonathan Wainwright
9. The Transmission of Consort Music in Some Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts	243	(28)
Andrew Ashbee
10. Some Late Sources of Music by John Jenkins*	271	(38)
Robert Thompson
11. Jenkins's Lute Music: An Approach to Reconstructing the Lost Multitudes of Lute Lessons*	309	(16)
Matthew Spring
12. Lyra-Viol Music? A Semantic Puzzle	325	(28)
Frank Traficante
13. `Evenly, Softly, and Sweetly Acchording to All': The Organ Accompaniment of English Consort Music*	353	(30)
Peter Holman
Notes on Contributors	383	(3)
Bibliography	386	(21)
Index	407