Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Liturgy, Sources, Symbolism

Contents

• Introduction Benjamin Brand and David J. Rothenberg;
• 1. Music and liturgy in medieval Capua Thomas Forrest Kelly;
• 2. Theory meets practice: the model antiphon series Primum quaerite in Hucbald's Office In plateis and in other post-Carolingian chant Barbara Haggh-Huglo;
• 3. Singing from the pulpit: polyphonic improvisation and public ritual in medieval Tuscany Benjamin Brand;
• 4. Liturgy and politics in Renaissance Florence: the creation of the 1526 Office for St Zenobius Marica S. Tacconi;
• 5. Music and pageantry in the formation of Hispano-Christian identity: the Feast of St Hippolytus in sixteenth-century Mexico City Lorenza Candelaria;
• Part II . Archival and Source Studies:
• 6. The sources and the sanctorale: dating by the decade in thirteenth-century Paris Rebecca A. Baltzer;
• 7. Vernacular contexts for the monophonic motet: notes from a new source Mark Everist;
• 8. Tradition and innovation in fourteenth-century instrumental music: evidence from archival and musical sources Keith Polk;
• 9. Melchior or Marchion de Civilibus, prepositus brixiensis: new documents Margaret Bent;
• 10. Papal musicians at Cambrai in the early fifteenth century Alejandro Enrique Planchart;
• 11. Sixtus IV, the Franciscans, and the beginning of music printing in fifteenth-century Rome Jane A. Bernstein;
• Part III . Symbolism:
• 12. The gate that carries Christ: wordplay and liturgical imagery in a motet from c.1300 David J. Rothenberg;
• 13. A musical lesson for a king from the Roman de Fauvel Anne Walters Robertson;
• 14. Preaching to the choir? Obrecht's Motet for the Dedication of the Church M. Jennifer Bloxam;
• 15. The Madonna triptych: a mystical reading of three early music videos Andrew Tomasello.