{"title":"EMH volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0261127917000067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261127917000067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42589,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC HISTORY","volume":"36 1","pages":"f1 - f7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0261127917000067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44651760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HOCKETS BROKEN AND INTEGRATED IN EARLY MENSURAL THEORY AND AN EARLY MOTET","authors":"Sean Curran","doi":"10.1017/S0261127917000055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261127917000055","url":null,"abstract":"Though recent discoveries have improved our understanding of big, melismatic hockets from the late thirteenth century, there remains a pervasive uncertainty as to how hockets should be defined and identified on the small scale at which they characteristically manifest in thirteenth-century motets. In revisiting the mensural theorists up to Franco of Cologne, it was found that only Franco defines hockets as multi-voice phenomena: earlier texts define the hocket at the level of a single perfection, and as it reveals itself in the breaking of a single performing voice. Under a revised definition, 138 motet texts that use hockets have been identified in the Ars antiqua repertory. It was also found that another way of hearing the hocket, compatible with the first, is implied by Lambertus and pursued at length by the St. Emmeram Anonymous. These writers acknowledge but depart from the consensus that the hocket is sonically fragmented, also hearing it as a promise of the coordination achievable when musical time is measured. For St. Emmeram especially, the hocket has a dual character: its sonic fragmentation is contrived through integrated planning. To hear hockets integratively is difficult, and requires an effort of will that for this theorist has moral stakes. The final sections of the article analyse the musicopoetic games of the motet Dame de valour (71)/Dame vostre douz regart (72)/Manere (M5). Similarly to the St. Emmeram theorist, the piece self-consciously highlights the difficulty and worth of close listening (a theme inspired by its tenor’s scriptural source), and does so with a hocket that marks a complementarity of breaking and integration, of a formal sort, several decades before Lambertus and St. Emmeram would reflect on the hocket’s dual character theoretically. The motet poses artfully some of the same questions about the audibility of form that preoccupy modern scholarship. These voices from the thirteenth century might remind us that ethical debates about correct listening are much older than current disciplinary concerns. But recognising the longevity of the debates does not force us to agree with old positions.","PeriodicalId":42589,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC HISTORY","volume":"36 1","pages":"31 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0261127917000055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42764246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CIRCULATING MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE IN EARLY SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY: MUSICA POETICA TREATISES OF JOHANN HERMANN SCHEIN AND MICHAEL ALTENBURG IN THE LIBRARY OF JOHANN CASPAR TROST","authors":"I. M. Groote, Dietrich Hakelberg","doi":"10.1017/S0261127916000073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261127916000073","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research on the library of Johann Caspar Trost the Elder, organist in Halberstadt, has led to the identification of a manuscript with two unknown treatises on musica poetica, one a lost treatise by Johann Hermann Schein and the other an unknown treatise by Michael Altenburg. Together they offer fresh insights into the learning and teaching of music in the early modern period. The books once owned by Trost also have close connections to his personal and professional life. This article situates the newly discovered manuscript in the framework of book history and Trost’s biography, and discusses the two treatises against the background of contemporary books of musical instruction (Calvisius, Lippius, or Finolt). The historical context of the manuscript, its theoretical sources and its origins all serve to contribute to and further the current understanding of musical education in early modern central Germany. An edition of the treatises is provided.","PeriodicalId":42589,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC HISTORY","volume":"35 1","pages":"131 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0261127916000073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57440216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A MUSIC BOOK FOR MARY TUDOR, QUEEN OF FRANCE","authors":"John T. Brobeck","doi":"10.1017/S0261127916000024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261127916000024","url":null,"abstract":"Frank Dobbins in memoriam In 1976 Louise Litterick proposed that Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library MS 1760 was originally prepared for Louis XII and Anne of Brittany of France but was gifted to Henry VIII of England in 1509. That the manuscript actually was prepared as a wedding gift from Louis to his third wife Mary Tudor in 1514, however, is indicated by its decorative and textual imagery, which mirrors the decoration of a book of hours given by Louis to Mary and the textual imagery used in her four royal entries. Analysis of the manuscript’s tabula and texts suggests that MS 1760 was planned by Louis’s chapelmaster Hilaire Bernonneau (d. 1524) at the king’s behest. The new theory elucidates the content and significance of Gascongne’s twelve-voice canon Ista est speciosa, which appeared beneath an original portrait of Mary Tudor and was intended to mirror the perfection of the Blessed Virgin and her ‘godchild’ Mary.","PeriodicalId":42589,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC HISTORY","volume":"35 1","pages":"1 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0261127916000024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57440100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘YONG BEGINNERS, WHO LIVE IN THE COUNTREY’: JOHN PLAYFORD AND THE PRINTED MUSIC MARKET IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND","authors":"Stephanie Carter","doi":"10.1017/S0261127916000036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261127916000036","url":null,"abstract":"John Playford dominated the commercial music publishing trade of mid-seventeenth-century England, encouraging musical literacy and supplying beginner books for the growing domestic amateur musical class. Playford was clearly aware of the need to attract as many customers as possible in order to succeed in a commercial business; however, very little is known about his customers. This article identifies the contemporary audiences of seventeenth-century English printed music books, building on previous scholarship including Alec Hyatt King’s Some British Collectors of Music c. 1600–1900 (1963), and provides an initial record of provenance marks in surviving copies of the publications. Placing the printed book and its customer within the wider context of music-making and bookselling in seventeenth-century England develops our understanding of the social dimensions of the printed music trade, including dissemination and distribution networks.","PeriodicalId":42589,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC HISTORY","volume":"35 1","pages":"95 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0261127916000036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57439676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anna Zayaruznaya, The Monstrous New Art: Divided Forms in the Late Medieval Motet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xviii + 301 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-03966-7.","authors":"H. Deeming","doi":"10.1017/S0261127916000061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261127916000061","url":null,"abstract":"In four quatrefoiled roundels, a centaur aims its bow, a mermaid (or -man) bends over to touch its own tail, an eight-limbed womanspider looks aghast with palms turned out, and a bird-siren clutches one hand to her cheek in a gesture of despair. With such images, taken from a copy of the Ovide moralisé dated to c. 1325, is the cover of Anna Zayaruznaya’s fascinating and compelling exploration of the monstrous in the fourteenth-century motet illustrated: author and publishermust have been spoilt for choice in terms of cover illustrations, given the ubiquity of hybrid and monstrous bodies on the pages and in the margins of medieval illuminated manuscripts. Such images attest to the latemedieval fascination withmonstrosity, particularly in the form of divided or grafted bodies: beyond the relatively conventional sirens and centaurs such as those pictured here, artists experimented with splicing human heads or torsos onto a variety of legs or tails, and in some cases disrupted bodily order still further by transposing the body parts, arse above face. In narrative works, particularly bestiaries, the meanings of bodies, real and imagined, were explored, and the theme of transformation of bodies was likewise well rehearsed in medieval texts, many drawing inspiration fromOvid, whoseMetamorphoses circulated widely in both Latin and vernacular versions. The opening lines of theMetamorphoses, ‘In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas / corpora’ (‘Of bodies chang’d to various forms I sing’, in the English verse translation of 1717), were quoted – appropriately","PeriodicalId":42589,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC HISTORY","volume":"35 1","pages":"309 - 323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0261127916000061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57440016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PATRIOTIC PURIFICATION: CLEANSING ITALIAN SECULAR VOCAL MUSIC IN THURINGIA, 1575–1600","authors":"S. Rose","doi":"10.1017/S0261127916000048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261127916000048","url":null,"abstract":"In German-speaking lands until the 1580s, Italian secular vocal music was mainly cultivated by a narrow elite of aristocrats and merchants who valued its exclusivity. Yet some German patriots – teachers, clergy and humanists – regarded such foreign imports as emasculating luxuries that would corrupt their national character. This article examines four collections of contrafacta of Italian villanellas and madrigals that were published in Erfurt and have been neglected by modern scholars: the Cantiones suavissimae (1576 and 1580), Primus liber suavissimas praestantissimorum nostrae aetatis artificum Italianorum cantilenas (1587) and Amorum filii Dei decades duae (1598). According to the prefatory material of these anthologies, their editors were motivated by a patriotic agenda of purifying Italian secular song and by a Lutheran belief in the intrinsic holiness of music. This article provides the first comprehensive identification of the originals of the contrafacta, showing that the latest Italian secular repertory travelled as speedily to Thuringian towns as to the better-known publishing centre of Nuremberg. The process of transformation in the contrafacta is discussed, including examples where church officials ruled that the change of text was insufficient to cleanse the tunes of their lascivious connotations.","PeriodicalId":42589,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC HISTORY","volume":"35 1","pages":"203 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0261127916000048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57439740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE FEAST OF THE SEVEN SORROWS OF THE VIRGIN: PIETY, POLITICS AND PLAINCHANT AT THE BURGUNDIAN-HABSBURG COURT","authors":"E. Thelen","doi":"10.1017/S026112791600005X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S026112791600005X","url":null,"abstract":"Devotion to the Virgin of Seven Sorrows flourished in the Low Countries in the late fifteenth century during a period of recovery from civil war, famine and economic instability. The Burgundian-Habsburg court took a special interest in this popular lay movement and, in an unusual move, sponsored a competition to generate a liturgy – a plainchant office and mass – for the growing devotion. This article identifies new sources for the text and music of the Seven Sorrows liturgy and ties them to the court’s competition. An examination of the surviving office and mass demonstrates the texts’ dependence on an earlier Marian celebration of the Compassion of the Virgin. The reworking of this older devotion reveals that the plainchant competition and the creation of the new Seven Sorrows liturgy were part of the court’s political agenda of restoring peace and unity to their territories.","PeriodicalId":42589,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC HISTORY","volume":"35 1","pages":"261 - 307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S026112791600005X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57439881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hyun-Ah Kim, The Renaissance Ethics of Music: Singing, Contemplation and Musica Humana. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. xii+181 pp. £95.00. ISBN-10: 1848935498; ISBN-13: 978-1848935495.","authors":"G. McDonald","doi":"10.1017/S0261127916000085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261127916000085","url":null,"abstract":"magnifying its most characteristic features in the course of embodying them’ (p. 232), and the entirety of this final discussion must become required reading for anyone wishing to generate a historically sensitive analysis of medieval music henceforth. In sum, The Monstrous New Art is not only a fascinating exploration of an exciting topic (the monstrous in ars novamusic) but a book of much wider importance. Future work that addresses medieval motets, the analysis of any early music, and the question of how texts and music relate in the pre-Renaissance repertory will be much the richer for taking account of it. The text is copiously and helpfully illustrated,admirably lucid and highly pleasurable to read: though the analyses demand a lot from the reader because of their complexity and subtlety, they produce ample rewards, and I look forward to introducing this book to advanced undergraduate and graduate student readers as amodel of engaging and persuasive analytical writing.","PeriodicalId":42589,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC HISTORY","volume":"35 1","pages":"323 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0261127916000085","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57440301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EMH volume 35 issue 1 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0261127916000103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261127916000103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42589,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC HISTORY","volume":"35 1","pages":"b1 - b4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0261127916000103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57440503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}