Music in the Renaissance (Western Music in Context: A Norton History)

by Freedman, Richard; Frisch, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780393929164
• ISBN10: 0393929167
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-10-23
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Richard Freedman's Music in the Renaissance shows how music and other forms of expression were adapted to changing tastes and ideals in Renaissance courts and churches. Giving due weight to sacred, secular, and instrumental genres, Freedman invites readers to consider who made music, who sponsored and listened to it, who preserved and owned it, and what social and aesthetic purposes it served. While focusing on broad themes such as music and the literary imagination and the art of improvisation, he also describes Europeans' musical encounters with other cultures and places. Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises six volumes of moderate length, each written in an engaging style by a recognized expert. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest sense-as sounds notated, performed, and heard-focusing not only on composers and works, but also on broader social and intellectual currents.

Table of Contents

Anthology Repertoire	p. xiii
Series Editor's Preface	p. xv
Author's Preface	p. xvii
Beginnings
Music and the Cultures of the Renaissance	p. 4
The Craft of Composition: Two Views	p. 4
Changing Styles and Contexts	p. 8
Music and the Renaissance: Some Problems	p. 10
Humanism in Thought, Word, and Belief	p. 12
Music and the Spirit of Religious Reform	p. 13
Music and the Cultures of Print	p. 13
Music and the Renaissance Gentleman	p. 14
A Dialogue with the Past	p. 14
For Further Reading	p. 15
Learning to Be a Musician	p. 17
A Plain and Easy Introduction	p. 18
The Duet as Testing Ground	p. 23
Learning about the Modes	p. 25
The Lost Art of Unwritten Counterpoint	p. 28
Teaching Methods	p. 30
Sixteenth-Century Trends	p. 32
For Further Reading	p. 34
Before 1500
Music at Court and a Songbook for Beatrice	p. 38
The Chapelle, Chambre, and Ecurie	p. 39
A Wedding at Savoy	p. 40
Musical Patronage as Aristotle's "Magnificence"	p. 43
Tinctoris's "New Art"	p. 45
Music in Motion	p. 47
A Songbook for a Princess	p. 47
Performing Chansons at Court	p. 54
For Further Reading	p. 57
Piety, Devotion, and Ceremony	p. 58
Music in Church	p. 59
Du Fay and a New Marian Service for Cambrai	p. 62
Polyphony at the Margins of the Liturgy	p. 64
A Memorial Mass by Obrecht	p. 66
Dunstable, the Song of Songs, and Musical Devotion	p. 67
The Sound of Sacred Processions	p. 68
Music for Corpus Christi Processions	p. 71
A Ceremonial Carol	p. 72
Music for Ceremonies of State	p. 73
Du Fay's Motet for Pope and Emperor	p. 74
For Further Reading	p. 77
Structures arid Symbols in Cantus Firmus and Canon	p. 78
Cantus Firmus and the Ceremonial Motet	p. 79
The Caput Masses	p. 80
The L'homme armé Tradition	p. 82
Ockeghem's Musical Puzzles	p. 88
Old Structures, New Listeners	p. 89
For Further Reading	p. 90
Around 1500
Number, Medicine, and Magic	p. 96
Music, Number, Proportion	p. 96
Theory versus Practice	p. 99
Music and Medicine	p. 101
Dowland, Du Fay, and the Sounds of Melancholia	p. 104
Music and Neoplatonic Magic	p. 106
Ficino and the Cosmic Dimension	p. 108
For Further Reading	p. 112
Music and the Ideal Courtier	p. 113
Castiglione's Book of the Courtier	p. 113
Federico da Montefeltro: The Ideal Prince	p. 115
The Courtier and the Theater of Appearances	p. 116
Songs Fit for a Courtier	p. 118
Seranno Aquilano, Singer and Poet	p. 119
Marchetto Cara and the Frottola	p. 120
A Frottola in Detail: Tromboncino's Ostinato vo' seguire	p. 122
Music, the Court Lady, and the Courtesan	p. 124
Fortunes of the Courtier Aesthetic	p. 127
For Further Reading	p. 129
Josquin des Prez and the "Perfect Art"	p. 131
Perfection in Practice: Josquin's Ave Maria… virgo serena	p. 132
Renaissance Images of Josquin des Prez	p. 133
Isaac's Competing Claim	p. 134
The Josquin "Brand"	p. 136
Josquin, Petrucci, and Music Printing	p. 137
By Josquin or Not?	p. 139
Mille regrets and the Problem of Authorship	p. 142
Josquin des Prez or Not?	p. 143
JosquinÆs Pupils, Real or Imagined?	p. 145
Reconsidering Josquin's Genius	p. 146
For Further Reading	p. 148
Scribes, Printers, and Owners	p. 150
Handmade Books	p. 151
Music in Print	p. 158
Owners and Collectors: Princes, Priests, and Bankers	p. 163
Composers, Printers, and Publics: Who Owned Music?	p. 167
For Further Reading	p. 169
After 1500
Music and the Literary Imagination	p. 174
Pierre Attaingnant's Songbooks	p. 174
Madrigals and the Art of Pleasing Variety	p. 179
In a Lighter Vein	p. 183
Madrigal Parodies	p. 185
Luca Marenzio and the Madrigal of the Late Sixteenth Century	p. 189
Marenzio and the Avant-Garde Poets	p. 190
For Further Reading	p. 192
Music and the Crisis of Belief	p. 193
Sacred Sounds for a Nation of Divided Faiths	p. 194
From the Cantiones to Byrd's Gradualia	p. 195
The Reevaluation of Catholic Music	p. 197
Palestrina's Missa nigra sum	p. 200
Lasso and Counter-Reformation Munich	p. 201
Crossing Confessional Boundaries	p. 202
Protestant versus Catholic in Music	p. 205
Congregational Hymns among the Protestants	p. 208
Luther and the "Wondrous Work of Music"	p. 209
Vautrollier and the Spiritual Correction of Secular Songs	p. 213
For Further Reading	p. 215
The Arts of Improvisation, Embellishment, and Variation	p. 216
The Singing Ladies of Ferrara	p. 217
Courtly Improvisers, Courtly Audiences	p. 219
Marenzio's Overdi selve: A Madrigal for the Concerto delle Donne	p. 220
Learning the Arts of Embellishment from a Papal Singer	p. 222
Embellishment for Everyone	p. 223
Borrowed Melodies, "Italian Tenors," and the Art of Instrumental Variation	p. 225
Fantasia: Playing from Imagination	p. 228
Fabrizio Dentice's Solo Lute Fantasias	p. 229
For Further Reading	p. 231
Empire, Exploration, and Encounter	p. 232
Venice and the World	p. 233
Greeks and Moors	p. 233
Jews and Music, from Italy to England	p. 237
The Bassano Family	p. 238
French and English Protestants Abroad	p. 240
The Catholic Mission in New Spain	p. 241
Sacred Music in the Americas	p. 243
Matteo Ricci's Musical Encounters in China	p. 245
A Musical Parliament of Nations?	p. 247
For Further Reading	p. 249
Tradition and Innovation around 1600	p. 250
A Madrigal by Claudio Monteverdi	p. 250
A Motet by Carlo Gesualdo	p. 253
Claude le Jeune's Dodecacorde: The Modes of Social Harmony	p. 254
Last Words	p. 256
For Further Reading	p. 258
Glossary	p. A1
Endnotes	p. A7
Credits	p. A15
Index	p. A17
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