Early Music History

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music

Iain Fenlon

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Cambridge University Press
19 March 2009

Music; Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)

Series: Early Music History 25 Volume Paperback Set

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives preference to studies pursuing interdisciplinary approaches and to those developing novel methodological ideas. 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 seventeen include: Tropis semper variantibus: Compositional strategies in the offertories of Old Roman chant; Music, identity and the Inquisition in fifteenth-century Spain; Musical aspects of Old Testament canticles in their biblical setting.

Edited by: Iain Fenlon
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: Volume 17
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9780521104425
ISBN 10: 0521104424
Series: Early Music History 25 Volume Paperback Set
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 19 March 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Tropis semper variantibus: compositional strategies in the offertories of Old Roman chant Joseph Dyer; 2. Modal discourse and fourteenth-century French song: a 'medieval' perspective recovered? Sarah Fuller; 3. The Sforza restoration and the founding of the ducal chapels at Santa Maria della Scalla in Milan and Sant'Ambrogio in Vigevano Christine Getz; 4. Music, identity and the Inquisition in fifteenth-century Spain Eleazer Gutwirth; 5. O rex mundi triumphator: Hohenstaufen politics in a sequence for Saint Charlemagne Michael McGrade; 6. Musical aspects of Old Testament canticles in their biblical setting John Arthur Smith.

Reviews for Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music

Culloden was the climatic (and for the Scots, disastrous) military encounter of the 1745 Rebellion, the last attempt by the Jacobite Scottish highlanders to overthrow the Hanoverians in favour of the Stuart pretenders to the British throne. Ignoring the romantic nonsense surrounding the figure of Bonnie Prince Charlie , Mr. Prebble discusses the battle and its consequences for the Highlands in terms of the ordinary men of both sides. Only about a third of the book is devoted to the actual battle, although a clear account is given of the slaughter in which nearly half the 5,000 clansmen gathered on Drummossie Moor were killed. A preliminary section describes the clan system then prevailing, the pressures put upon the clansmen to join the rebellion, and, on the other hand, the composition and character of the English army. The greater part of the book tells what came after the terrible defeat of the Scots: how the brutalities and atrocities of the English cavalry against the populace in the countryside were part of the deliberate policy of the British government as punishment for a savage people, how Jacobite prisoners were cruelly treated; transported to penal servitude or executed. Anyone who has trudged through Scottish museums and wondered what the Forty-Five was all about will find the human - as opposed to the dynastic or sentimental - answer in this sobering, sometimes horrifying account. (Kirkus Reviews)