Companion to music in the age of the Catholic monarchs
The 'Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs', edited by Tess Knighton, offers a major new study that deepens and enriches our understanding of the forms and functions of music that flourished in late medieval Spanish society. The fifteen essays, written by leading authoriti...
| Summary: | The 'Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs', edited by Tess Knighton, offers a major new study that deepens and enriches our understanding of the forms and functions of music that flourished in late medieval Spanish society. The fifteen essays, written by leading authorities in the field, present a synthesis based on recently discovered material that throws new light on different aspects of musical life during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabel (1474-1516): sacred and secular music-making in royal and aristocratic circles; the cathedral music environment; liturgy and power; musical connections with Rome, Portugal and the New World; theoretical and unwritten musical practices; women as patrons and performers; and the legacy of Jewish musical tradition Introduction / Tess Knighton -- Music for the royal chapels / Kenneth Kreitner -- Secular song in fifteenth-century Spain / Jane Whetnall -- Instruments, instrumental music, and instrumentalists : traditions and transitions / Tess Knighton -- Musica and spectacle / Ronald E. Surtz -- Love and liberality? music in the courts of the Spanish nobility / Roberta Freund Schwartz -- Music and musicians at the Portuguese royal court and chaoel, c.1470-c.1500 / Bernadette Nelson -- Cathedral soundscape : some new persepctives / Juan Ruiz Jimâenez -- Chant, liturgy, and reform / Mercedes Castillo-Ferreira -- Musical cultures in the Reinos de Indias at the time of Isabel and Ferdinand / Javier Marâin Lâopez -- The Roman connection : the Spanish nation in the Papal chapel, 1429-1521 / Richard Sherr -- Manuscripts of polyphony from the time of Isabel and Ferdinand / Emilio Ros-Fâabregas -- Spanish treatises on musica practica c.1480-1525 : reflections from a cultural perspective / Pilar Ramos Lâopez -- Unwritten music and oral traditions at the time of Ferdinand and Isabel / Giuseppe Fiorentino -- Lost voices : women and music at the time of the Catholic monarchs / Ascensiâon Mazuela-Anguita -- Musical lives : late medieval Hispano-Jewish communities / Eleazar Gutwirth |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004325026 |