The Cambridge history of fifteenth-century music

The Cambridge history of fifteenth-century music / edited by Anna Maria Busse Berger and Jesse Rodin.

Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of...

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Other Authors: Berger, Anna Maria Busse (Editor), Rodin, Jesse (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:Cambridge history of music.
Subjects:
Music > 15th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Historiography
  • Improvisation and composition
  • Humanism
  • Music and other arts
  • Music in churches, courts, and cities
  • Religious devotion and liturgy
  • Theory and practice
  • Sources
  • Genres
  • Reception.
  • Part I. Historiography: Listening
  • 1. Hearing Josquin hearing Busnoys / Michael Long
  • 2. Religion and the senses in fifteenth-century Europe / Klaus Pietschmann
  • Terms and Concepts
  • 3. The work concept / Laurenz Lütteken
  • 4. The L'homme armé tradition
  • and the limits of musical borrowing / Jesse Rodin
  • Composer Studies
  • 5. Guillaume Du Fay: evidence and interpretation / Alejandro Enrique Planchart
  • 6. Jean d'Ockeghem / Lawrence F. Bernstein
  • 7. Josquin and epistemology / Jesse Rodin
  • Part II. Improvisation and Composition
  • 8. Oral composition in fifteenth-century music / Anna Maria Busse Berger
  • 9. Improvisation as concept and musical practice in the fifteenth century / Philippe Canguilhem
  • 10. How did Oswald von Wolkenstein make his contrafacta? / Anna Maria Busse Berger
  • 11. Making a motet: Josquin's Ave Maria ... virgo serena / John Milsom
  • 12. The origins of pervasive imitation / Julie E. Cumming and Peter Schubert
  • Part III. Humanism
  • 13. Humanism and music in Italy / James Hankins
  • 14. Fifteenth-century humanism and music outside Italy / Reinhard Strohm
  • 15. Poetic humanism and music in the fifteenth century / Leofranc Holford-Strevens
  • 16. Canterino and Improvvisatore: oral poetry and performance / Blake Wilson
  • 17. Liturgical Humanism: saints' offices from the Italian peninsula in the fifteenth century / Alison K. Frazier
  • Part IV. Music and Other Arts
  • 18. Architecture and music in fifteenth-century Italy / Deborah Howard
  • 19. Music and feasts in the fifteenth century / Anthony M. Cummings
  • 20. French lyrics and songs for the New Year, c.1380-1420 / Yolanda Plumley
  • Part V. Music in Churches, Courts, and Cities
  • 21. Musical institutions in the fifteenth century and their political contexts / Klaus Pietschmann
  • 22. Music and musicians at the Burgundian court in the fifteenth century / David Fiala
  • 23. The papal chapel in the late fifteenth century / Richard Sherr
  • 24. The beneficial system and fifteenth-century polyphony / Pamela F. Starr
  • 25. Professional women singers in the fifteenth century: a tale of two Annas / Bonnie J. Blackburn
  • 26. Savonarola and the boys of Florence: songs and politics / Patrick Macey
  • Part VI. Religious Devotion and Liturgy
  • 27. Music and ritual / M. Jennifer Bloxam
  • 28. Marian devotion in the fifteenth century / David J. Rothenberg
  • 29. Affective literature and sacred themes in fifteenth-century music / Anne Walters Robertson
  • Part VII. Theory and Practice
  • 30. Measuring measurable music in the fifteenth century / Anne Stone
  • 31. The transformative impulse / Emily Zazulia
  • 32. Transformations in music theory and music treatises / Evan A. MacCarthy
  • Part VIII. Sources
  • 33. Polyphonic sources, c.1400-1450 / Margaret Bent
  • 34. Polyphonic sources, c.1450-1500 / Thomas Schmidt-Beste
  • Part IX. Genres
  • 35. The polyphonic mass in the fifteenth century / Andrew Kirkman
  • 36. The fifteenth-century motet / Laurenz Lütteken
  • 37. Fifteenth-century song / Nicole Schwindt
  • 38. Instrumental music in the fifteenth century / Keith Polk
  • 39. Sacred song in the fifteenth century: cantio, carol, lauda, Kirchenlied / Reinhard Strohm
  • 40. Plainsong in the age of polyphony / Richard Sherr
  • Part X. Reception
  • 41. The most popular songs of the fifteenth century / David Fallows
  • 42. The nineteenth-century reception of fifteenth-century sacred music / Andrew Kirkman
  • 43. The modern reception of the music of Jean d'Ockeghem / Lawrence F. Bernstein
  • 44. Recordings of fifteenth-century music / Honey Meconi
  • 45. Solidarity with the long-departed: fifteenth-century echoes in twentieth-century music / Richard Taruskin.

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