Identity and Locality in Early European Music 1028-1740

This collection presents numerous discoveries and fresh insights into music and musical practices that shaped distinctly localized individual and collective identities in pre-modern and early modern Europe. Contributions by leading and emerging European music experts fall into three areas: plainchant traditions in Aquitania and the Iberian peninsula during the first 700 years of the second millennium; late medieval musical aesthetics, traditions and practices in Paris, Padua, Prague and more generally England, Germany and Spain; and local traditions in Renaissance Augsburg and Baroque Naples and Dresden. In addition to in-depth readings of anonymous musical traditions, contributors provide new details concerning the lives and music of well-known composers such as Adémar de Chabannes, Bartolino da Padova, Ciconia, Josquin, Senfl, Alessandro Scarlatti, Heinichen and Zelenka. This book will appeal to a broad range of readers, including chant scholars, medievalists, music historians, and anyone interested in music's place in pre-modern and early modern European culture. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part I Identity and Practice in Aquitanian and Iberian Plainchant: Adémar de Chabannes at the nexus of tradition and innovation, James Grier; Seeking early practice for the exultet in Iberia, Kathleen E. Nelson; Regional and royal: aspects of practice in 3 Portuguese prints of the Lamentations of Jeremiah (1543-1595), Jane Morlet Hardie; Plainsong in Eastern Spain and the tono valenciano, Greta J. Olson. Part II Late Medieval Aesthetics, Traditions and Practices: Some early references to Aristotle's Politics in Parisian writings about music, Catherine Jeffreys; Music and moral philosophy in early 15th-century Padua, Jason Stoessel; Late-medieval sacred songs: tradition, memory and history, Reinhard Strohm. Part III Local Practices in Renaissance and Baroque Music: Pervasive imitation in Senfl's Ave Maria...Virgo Serens: borrowing from Josquin in 16th-century Augsburg, Miranda Stanyon; Alessandro Scarlatti and the Roman copies of his Neapolitan compositions: a source study of the serenata Venere, Adone et Amore (1696), Rosalind Halton; 'After 6 weeks': music for the churching ceremonies of Maria Josepha, Electoral Princess of Saxony and Queen of Poland, Janice B. Stockigt; Bibliography; Index.