Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music

With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of music and culture in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to 1600. Fifty essays comment on the social, historical, theoretical, and performance contexts of the music and musicians of the period to offer fresh perspectives on musical styles, research sources, and performance practices of the medieval and Renaissance periods.

Illustrations

vii

(2)

Music examples

ix

(2)

Abbreviations

xi

(1)

Introduction

xii

(3)

Contributors

xv

I The music of the past and the modern ear

3

(52)

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

1 The good, the bad and the boring

3

(12)

James Haar

2 Value judgements in music of the Renaissance

15

(8)

Christopher Page

3 The English a cappella heresy

23

(7)

Tess Knighton

4 Going down on record

30

(6)

Thomas Binkley

5 The work is not the performance

36

(8)

Peter Phillips

6 Beyond authenticity

44

(4)

Philip Pickett

7 Hard-sell, scholarship and silly titles

48

(7)

II Aspects of music and society

55

(46)

Reinhard Strohm

8 Centre and periphery: mainstream and provincial music

55

(5)

Barbara Haggh

9 The meeting of sacred ritual and secular piety: endowments for music

60

(9)

Keith Falconer

10 Ritual reflections

69

(5)

Christopher Page

Musicus and cantor

74

(5)

Tess Knighton

12 A day in the life of Francisco de Penalosa

79

(6)

Anthony Rooley

13 A portrait of Sir Henry Unton

85

(8)

Laura W. Macy

14 Women's history and early music

93

(8)

III Questions of form and style

101

(78)

GENRES: VOCAL

101

(30)

Katherine Bergeron

15 Chant, or the politics of inscription

101

(3)

Ardis Butterfield

16 Monophonic song: questions of category

104

(3)

Hendrik van der Werf

17 Early Western Polyphony

107

(7)

Margaret Bent

18 The late-medieval motet

114

(6)

Philip T. Jackson

19 Mass polyphony

120

(3)

David Fallows

20 Polyphonic song

123

(4)

Margaret Mabbett

21 Genre and function: some thoughts on Italian secular vocal music in the sixteenth century

127

(4)

GENRES: INSTRUMENTAL

131

(23)

Lewis Jones

22 Fourteenth- and fifteenth-century keyboard music

131

(4)

Hopkinson Smith

23 Plucked instruments:silver tones of a golden age

135

(3)

Randall Cook

24 The medieval fiddle: reflections of a performer

138

(5)

Crawford Young

25 On the trail of ensemble music in the fifteenth century

143

(3)

Lorenz Welker

26 Wind ensembles in the Renaissance

146

(8)

TECHNIQUES OF COMPOSITION

154

(25)

Gareth Curtis

27 Musical design and the rise of the cyclic Mass

154

(11)

Irena Cholij

28 Borrowed music: `Allez regrets' and the use of pre-existent material

165

(14)

IV Using the evidence

179

(70)

Elizabeth C. Teviotdale

29 Music and pictures in the Middle Ages

179

(10)

Iain Fenlon

30 Music in Italian Renaissance painting

189

(21)

Stevie Wishart

31 Echoes of the past in the present

210

(13)

Lewis Jones

32 Surviving instruments

223

(5)

Reinhard Strohm

33 Unwritten and written music

228

(6)

Frederick Hammond

34 Researching the past: archival studies

234

(5)

Michael Noone

35 A manuscript case-study

239

(10)

V Pre-performance decisions

249

(58)

Bruno Turner

36 The editor: diplomat or dictator?

249

(6)

Liane Curtis

37 Mode

255

(10)

Rob C. Wegman

38 Musica ficta

265

(10)

Kenneth Kreitner

39 Renaissance pitch

275

(9)

Honey Meconi

40 Is underlay necessary?

284

(8)

Alison Wray

41 Restored pronunciation

292

(8)

Jan Nuchelmans

42 Finding the right context: where to perform early music

300

(7)

VI Performance techniques

307

(59)

Paul Hillier

43 Framing the life of the words

307

(4)

John Potter

44 Reconstructing lost voices

311

(6)

Rogers Covey-Crump

45 Pythagoras at the forge:tuning in early music

317

(10)

Richard Sherr

46 Tempo to 1500

327

(10)

Ephraim Segerman

47 Tempo and tactus after 1500

337

(8)

Bernard Thomas

48 Divisions in Renaissance music

345

(9)

Andrew Lawrence-King

49 `Perfect' instruments

354

(12)

Tess Knighton

Chronology

366

(11)

Tess Knighton

Glossary

377

(41)

David Fallows

Index

418

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