Music in the German Renaissance: Sources, Styles, and Contexts

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 12/8/1994
EAN 9780521440455, ISBN10: 0521440459

Hardcover, 308 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 1.9 cm
Language: English

This 1994 collection of fourteen essays, written by an eminent group of scholars, explores the musical culture of the German-speaking realm between c.1450 and 1600. The essays demonstrate the important role played by German speakers in the development of instrumental music in the Renaissance, the shaping of the curricula of musical education in the modern age, in setting patterns of musical patronage, in establishing congregational singing in churches, and in developing commercial music printing. The essays shed light on the music that flourished at Imperial and ducal courts, universities, parish churches, collegiate schools, as well as the homes of prosperous merchants. The volume thus provides an overview of German polyphonic music in the age of Gutenberg, Dürer and Luther and documents the changing social status of music in Germany during a crucial epoch of its history.

List of illustrations
Preface
List of abbreviations
Part I. Sources
1. Dufay songs in German manuscripts Lorenz Welker
2. An Isaac autograph Jessie Ann Owens
3. Music in the library of Johannes Klein Tom Ward
4. Heinrich Glarean's books Iain Fenlon
5. Georg Knoff
bibliophile and devotee of Italian music in late sixteenth-century Danzig Martin Morell
Part II. Styles
6. Polyphony based on chant in a late fifteenth-century German manuscript Martin Just
7. An early Missa brevis in Trent Codex 91 Adelyn Peck Leverett
8. The constitution of the fifteenth-century German tenor lied
drafting the history of a musical genre Martin Staehelin
9. Lied and madrigal, 1580–1600 Ludwig Finscher
Part III. Contexts
10. The motet texts of Philippe de Vitry in German humanist manuscripts of the fifteenth century Andrew Wathey
11. Innovation in instrumental music 1450–1520
the role of German performers within European culture Keith Polk
12. The Piperinus-Amerbach partbooks
six months of music lessons in Renaissance Basle John Kmetz
13. The Salzburg liturgy and single-impression music printing Stanley Boorman
14. Music and patronage at the court of Rudolf II Robert Lindell
Indices
Manuscripts
Printed editions of music
General.