Music and Musicians in Renaissance Cities and Towns

This interdisciplinary collection examines musical culture in urban centres in Renaissance Europe and the New World. Although musicologists have indeed already investigated such topics, lack of familiarity with (urban) historical methodologies has often resulted in failure to explore fully the ways in which the urban environment had an impact on musical activity of all kinds; neither is this question adequately addressed by urban historians. This book thus aims to integrate musicological and urban-historical approaches. To urban historians it shows the range of work undertaken by music historians; to musicologists it presents some different approaches, questions and perspectives which suggest new lines of enquiry for future investigations. Not only does this book contribute to musicology, but it also adds considerably to urban history scholarship.

-This is the first book on music in Renaissance towns aimed specifically at urban historians.
-Integrates urban historical and musicological approaches.
-Contains essays by major scholars in the field.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction: urban history, musicology and cities and towns in Renaissance Europe, Fiona Kisby
2. Music and urban culture in Austria - comparing profiles, Reinhard Strohm
3. Magnificence as civic image: music and ceremonial space in Early Modern Venice, Iain Fenlon
4. Secular music in the Burgh of Haddington, 1530?1640, John J. McGavin
5. Civic subsidy and musicians in Southern France during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: a comparison of Montpellier, Toulouse and Avignon, Gretchen Peters
6. Masses, Morris and metrical psalms: music in the English parish, c. 1400?1600, Beat Kümin
7. The role of religious guilds in the cultivation of ritual polyphony in England: the case of Louth, 1450?1550, Magnus Williamson
8. Academic colleges in the Oxford community, 1400?1550, Beth Anne Lee-De Amici
9. Music and court in Charles V?s Valladolid, 1517?1539, Soterraña Aguirre Rincón
10. Change and continuity in the Reformation period: church music in North German Towns, 1500?1600, Joachim Kremer
11. Cathedral music, city and state: music in Reformation and political change at Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, Barra Boydell
12. Singers and scribes in the secular churches of Brussels, Barbara Haggh
13. Music and moonlighting: the cathedral choirmen of Early Modern England, 1558?1649, James Saunders
14. Urban musical life in the European colonies: examples from Spanish America, 1530?1650, Egberto Bermúdez.