European music, 1520–1640

Boydell Press

2006

x, 576 p.

Studies in medieval and Renaissance music ; 5

Includes bibliographical references and index

9781843832003

Renaissance humanism and music / Gary Tomlinson. The concept of the Renaissance / James Haar. The concept of the Baroque / Tim Carter. Italy, i: 1520–1560 / Giulio Ongaro. Italy, ii: 1560–1600 / Noel O'Regan. Italy, iii: 1600–1640 / Tim Carter. Music for the mass / Allan W. Atlas. The motet / Anthony Cummings. France, i: 1520–1560 / Richard Freedman. France, ii: 1560–1600 / Jeanice Brooks. France, iii: 1600–1640 / David Tunley. Chanson and air / Kate van Orden. Madrigal / James Haar. The Netherlands, 1520–1640 / Kristine K. Forney. Music, print, and society in sixteenth-century Europe / Iain Fenlon. Concepts and developments in music theory / Karol Berger. Germany and Central Europe, i: 1520–1600 / David Crook. The Reformation and music / Robin A. Leaver. Renewal, reform, and reaction in Catholic music / Craig Monson. Spain, i: 1530–1600 / Todd M. Borgerding and Louise K. Stein. Spain, ii: 1600–1640 / Louise K. Stein. Early opera: the initial phase / Giuseppe Gerbino and Iain Fenlon. England, i: 1485–1600 / Roger Bray. England, ii: 1603–1642 / Jonathan P. Wainwright. Instrumental music / Victor Coelho and Keith Polk

The sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries – the so-called Golden Age of Polyphony – represent a time of great change and development in European music, with the flourishing of Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina, Byrd, Victoria, Monteverdi and Schütz among others. The chapters of this book, contributed by established scholars on subjects within their fields of expertise, deal with polyphonic music – sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental – during this period. The volume offers chronological surveys of national musical cultures (in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany, England, and Spain); genre studies (Mass, motet, madrigal, chanson, instrumental music, opera); and is completed with essays on intellectual and cultural developments and concepts relevant to music (music theory, printing, the Protestant Reformation and the corresponding Catholic movement, humanism, concepts of "Renaissance" and "Baroque"). It thus provides a complete overview of the music and its context.

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