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The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music

Part of The Cambridge History of Music

Editors:
Iain Fenlon, King's College, Cambridge
Richard Wistreich, Royal College of Music, London

Iain Fenlon, Richard Wistreich, Robert L. Kendrick, Alexander Fisher, Magnus Williamson , Olivia Bloechl, Melinda Latour, Flora Dennis, Kate van Orden, Giuseppe Gerbino, Inga Mai Groote, Thomas Christensen, Floris Cohen, Jacomien Prins, Angela Voss

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Date Published: July 2019
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521195942

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Part of the seminal Cambridge History of Music series, this volume departs from standard histories of early modern Western music in two important ways. First, it considers music as something primarily experienced by people in their daily lives, whether as musicians or listeners, and as something that happened in particular locations, and different intellectual and ideological contexts, rather than as a story of genres, individual counties, and composers and their works. Second, by constraining discussion within the limits of a 100-year timespan, the music culture of the sixteenth century is freed from its conventional (and tenuous) absorption within the abstraction of 'the Renaissance', and is understood in terms of recent developments in the broader narrative of this turbulent period of European history. Both an original take on a well-known period in early music and a key work of reference for scholars, this volume makes an important contribution to the history of music.
- Provides an alternative to conventional 'composers and works' histories of music
- Readers can understand the material without having to be able to read music
- Offers chapters by ten different authors, specialists in their respective fields
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'… rich in detail … The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music, in short, invites us to consider these themes, and to revisit the beautiful music of the period with renewed curiosity.' Richard Freedman, Revue de musicologie

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Product details
- Date Published: July 2019
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521195942
- length: 542 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 28 mm
- weight: 1kg
- contains: 36 b/w illus. 4 maps 1 table
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Iain Fenlon and Richard Wistreich
Part I. Confessions, Identities, and Rhetorics of Power:
1. Catholic music in the sixteenth century Robert L. Kendrick
2. Lutheranism and Calvinism Alexander Fisher
3. Music and reform in France, England and Scotland Magnus Williamson
4. Music in the early colonial world Olivia Bloechl
4.1. Mexico City Melinda Latour
4.2. The Catholic Mission to Japan 1549–1614 Olivia Bloechl
5. Music and War Richard Wistreich
Part II. Culture, Place and Practice:
6. Urban soundscapes Iain Fenlon
7. Interior spaces for music Flora Dennis
8. The lives of musicians Richard Wistreich
9. Domestic music Kate van Orden
Part III. Institutions, Ideas and the Order of Nature:
10. Institutions and intellectual life
10.1. Italy Giuseppe Gerbino
10.2. Germany Inga Mai Groote
11. Music theory and pedagogy Thomas Christensen
12. Music and science Floris Cohen and Jacomien Prins
13. Music and magic Angela Voss.
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Editors
Iain Fenlon, King's College, Cambridge
Iain Fenlon is Emeritus Professor of Historical Musicology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is the Editor of the journal Early Music History. His most recent books are The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice (2008), Piazza San Marco (2009), and (co-edited with Inga Groote) Heinrich Glarean's Books: The Intellectual World of a Sixteenth-Century Musical Humanist (Cambridge, 2013).
Richard Wistreich, Royal College of Music, London
Richard Wistreich is Professor of Music and Director of Research at the Royal College of Music in London. His published work includes The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi (edited, with John Whenham, Cambridge, 2007) and Warrior, Courtier, Singer: Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance (2007). He has also had a long career as a professional singer specialising in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music, during which he has made more than 100 commercial recordings, appeared in opera, solo recitals, and as a member of several seminal ensembles of the early music revival.
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Iain Fenlon, Richard Wistreich, Robert L. Kendrick, Alexander Fisher, Magnus Williamson , Olivia Bloechl, Melinda Latour, Flora Dennis, Kate van Orden, Giuseppe Gerbino, Inga Mai Groote, Thomas Christensen, Floris Cohen, Jacomien Prins, Angela Voss