The sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries - the so-called Golden Age of Polyphony - represent a time of great change and development in European music, with the flourishing of Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina, Byrd, Victoria, Monteverdi and Schütz among others. The chapters of this book, contributed by established scholars on subjects within their fields of expertise, deal with polyphonic music - sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental - during this period. The volume offers chronological surveys of national musical cultures (in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany, England, and Spain); genre studies (Mass, motet, madrigal, chanson, instrumental music, opera); and is completed with essays on intellectual and cultural developments and concepts relevant to music (music theory, printing, the Protestant Reformation and the corresponding Catholic movement, humanism, concepts of "Renaissance" and "Baroque"). It thus provides a complete overview of the music and its context.
Author(s): James Haar (ed.)
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music, 5
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 586
City: Woodbridge
Preface vii
Abbreviations ix
1. Renaissance Humanism and Music 1
Gary Tomlinson
2. The Concept of the Renaissance 20
James Haar
3. The Concept of the Baroque 38
Tim Carter
4. Italy, i: 1520–1560 58
Giulio Ongaro
5. Italy, ii: 1560–1600 75
Noel O’Regan
6. Italy, iii: 1600–1640 91
Tim Carter
7. Music for the Mass 101
Allan W. Atlas
8. The Motet 130
Anthony Cummings
9. France, i: 1520–1560 157
Richard Freedman
10. France, ii: 1560–1600 171
Jeanice Brooks
11. France, iii: 1600–1640 182
David Tunley
12. Chanson and Air 193
Kate van Orden
13. Madrigal 225
James Haar
14. The Netherlands, 1520–1640 246
Kristine K. Forney
15. Music, Print, and Society in Sixteenth-Century Europe 280
Iain Fenlon
16. Concepts and Developments in Music Theory 304
Karol Berger
17. Germany and Central Europe, i: 1520–1600 329
Peter Bergquist
18. Germany and Central Europe, ii: 1600–1640 353
David Crook
19. The Reformation and Music 371
Robin A. Leaver
20. Renewal, Reform, and Reaction in Catholic Music 401
Craig Monson
21. Spain, i: 1530–1600 422
Todd M. Borgerding and Louise K. Stein
22. Spain, ii: 1600–1640 455
Louise K. Stein
23. Early Opera: The Initial Phase 472
Giuseppe Gerbino and Iain Fenlon
24. England, i: 1485–1600 487
Roger Bray
25. England, ii: 1603–1642 509
Jonathan P. Wainwright
26. Instrumental Music 527
Victor Coelho and Keith Polk
Index 557
