Music and Musicians at the Collegiate Church of St Omer
Crucible of Song, 1350–1550
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- Author: Andrew Kirkman, University of Birmingham
- Date Published: November 2022
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- isbn: 9781108813655
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Music played an exceptionally important role in the late Middle Ages - articulating people's social, psychological and eschatological needs. The process began with the training of choirboys whose skill was key to institutional identity. That skill was closely cultivated and directly sought by kings and emperors, who intervened directly in recruitment of choirboys and older singers in order to build and articulate their self-image and perceived status. Using the documentation of an exceptionally well preserved archive, this book focuses on music's functioning in an important church in late Medieval Northern France. It explores a period when musicians from this region set the agenda across Europe, developing what is still some of the most sophisticated music in the Western musical tradition. The book allows a close focus not on the great achievements of those who cultivated this music, but on the personal motivations that shaped their life and work.
Read more- The first in-depth study of a leading late-medieval song school whose alumni were employed at major institutions throughout Europe
- Reveals the detailed ritual and social workings of a large late medieval church, and the ways it articulated larger political forces as well as theological concerns relating to death and remembrance
- Shows how and why music was made in a late medieval church's musical establishment, and how this music was able to achieve a high state of sophistication and international influence
Awards
- Winner, AMS Early Music Award, American Musicological Society
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'Kirkman's beautifully crafted micro-history is written in a refreshingly modest style. Yet the many new perspectives offered by Music and Musicians at the Collegiate Church of St Omer have significant consequences for our understanding and further study of late medieval musical life.' American Musicological Society
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- Date Published: November 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108813655
- length: 329 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- contains: 16 b/w illus. 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
List of plates
Note on editorial policy, currency and dates
Prologue: Saint-omer and the growth of urban power
1. The maîtrise
2. Identities and career patterns
3. Masters and master singers
4. The organs
5. The bells
6. Loose canons? Music and the craft of ecclesiastical power
Epilogue. A cloistered art: connoisseurship and private music-making
Appendix. Documents pertaining to the suppression of benefices for the upkeep of the master and choirboys
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