"A Companion to Music at the Habsburgs Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries", edited by Andrew H. Weaver, is the first in-depth survey of Habsburg musical patronage over a broad timeframe. Bringing together existing research and drawing upon primary sources, the authors, all established experts, provide overviews of the musical institutions, the functions of music, the styles and genres cultivated, and the historical, political, and cultural contexts for music at the Habsburg courts. The wide geographical scope includes the imperial courts in Vienna and Prague, the royal court in Madrid, the archducal courts in Graz and Innsbruck, and others. This broad view of Habsburg musical activities affirms the dynasty’s unique position in the cultural life of early modern Europe.
Author(s): Andrew H. Weaver (ed.)
Series: Brill’s Companions to the Musical Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 4
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 654
City: Leiden
Acknowledgements ix
List of Illustrations x
List of Tables xii
List of Music Examples xiii
Manuscript Sigla and Other Abbreviations xiv
Notes on Contributors xxiii
Introduction / Andrew H. Weaver 1
1. Politics, Religion, and Music at the Early Modern Habsburg Courts / Paula Sutter Fichtner with Andrew H. Weaver 16
Part 1. Institutional Contexts
2. The Court Chapels of the Habsburg-Burgundian Line: From Emperor Maximilian I to Emperor Charles V / Honey Meconi 59
3. The Court Chapels of the Spanish Line: From King Philip II to King Charles II / Pablo L. Rodríguez 96
4. The Court Chapels of the Austrian Line (I): From Emperor Ferdinand I to Emperor Matthias / Jonas Pfohl 131
5. The Court Chapels of the Austrian Line (II): From Archduke Charles II to Emperor Leopold I / Lawrence Bennett, Steven Saunders, and Andrew H. Weaver 176
6. The Court Chapels of the Tyrolean Line: From Archduke Ferdinand II to Archduke Ferdinand Charles / Sara Pecknold 220
Part 2. Cultural Contexts
7. Italian Musical Dramatic Genres at the Courts of the Austrian Habsburgs / Herbert Seifert 255
8. Festivity and Spectacle at the Spanish Royal Court / Louise K. Stein 273
9. Contexts for and Functions of Instrumental Music in Central Europe / Charles E. Brewer 308
10. Manuscript Culture: The Habsburg-Burgundian Scriptorium and Some Successors / Honey Meconi 347
11. Print Culture: Printed Music and Other Media in the Service of the Habsburgs / Andrew H. Weaver 397
12. Colonialism and Music in Habsburg New Spain / Drew Edward Davies 439
Part 3. International Contexts
13. Die Teutsche Nation: Musical Links between the Habsburg Courts and the German States of the Empire / Alexander J. Fisher 467
14. Milan: Imperial City and 'Theatre of the World' / Christine Getz 499
15. Musical Connections between the Austrian Habsburgs and Venice in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Beth L. Glixon, Jeffrey Kurtzman, and Steven Saunders 534
16. A Tale of Two entrate: Processions, Politics, and Patronage for the Habsburgs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Rome / Virginia Christy Lamothe 571
Index 611
