The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music

Contents

• Introduction Anna Maria Busse Berger and Jesse Rodin;
• Part I . Historiography: (a) Listening:
• 1. Hearing Josquin hearing Busnoys Michael Long;
• 2. Religion and the senses in fifteenth-century Europe Klaus Pietschmann; (b) Terms and Concepts:
• 3. The work concept Laurenz Lutteken;
• 4. The L'homme arme tradition - and the limits of musical borrowing Jesse Rodin; (c) 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.1400-50 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 Lutteken;
• 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.