EARLY MUSICPub Date : 2023-11-18DOI: 10.1093/em/caad034
Laurie Stras
{"title":"A response to Joshua Rifkin (‘Singing nuns? More on the story of Verona 761’)","authors":"Laurie Stras","doi":"10.1093/em/caad034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad034","url":null,"abstract":"A response to Joshua Rifkin’s reconsideration of the early history of Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, Ms. dcclxi. As well as addressing Rifkin’s objections to my hypotheses, I discuss the motivation behind my scholarship, and some of the choices I make in presenting it.","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138540665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EARLY MUSICPub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1093/em/caad038
Walter Chinaglia
{"title":"An ingenious musical machine from the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci","authors":"Walter Chinaglia","doi":"10.1093/em/caad038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad038","url":null,"abstract":"This article is based on a talk I was asked to give during the conference Leonardo, la musica, la scena (Leonardo: the music and the scene) held at the Accademia di Brera, Milan, in November 2019. On that occasion I was able to illustrate my wooden reconstruction of Leonardo’s portative organ, as illustrated on fol.76r of the codex Madrid II. In the article I present and analyse Leonardo’s drawings of this organ in their original context, as well as exploring the distinctive traits of the instrument. With the aim of making possible a historically informed reconstruction, I identify an appropriate interpretative methodology and principles of construction consistent with the historical period in which Leonardo worked, both as musicus and maker of instruments. At the same time I trace an analogy with the portative organ of the late Middle Ages. For this instrument, which works in a very similar way to the late medieval portative organ, some traits have been derived from the portative organ, in particular the scaling of the pipes. Finally, individual parts of Leonardo’s organ design are interpreted and their modern reconstruction illustrated, leading to the presentation of the complete instrument.","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138540693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EARLY MUSICPub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1093/em/caad044
Amanda Eubanks Winkler
{"title":"Ubiquitous music in Newcastle","authors":"Amanda Eubanks Winkler","doi":"10.1093/em/caad044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":"43 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139269175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EARLY MUSICPub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1093/em/caad049
Joseph M Ortiz
{"title":"<i>Nec doctum satis</i>: humanist translation and English recreational song","authors":"Joseph M Ortiz","doi":"10.1093/em/caad049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad049","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Studies of the literary dimensions of English Renaissance madrigals frequently cordon off these works from non-musical forms, such as the prosodic experiments being carried out by humanist poets or the humanist practices of literary translation and imitation. Conversely, studies of humanist translation in England almost never consider recreational song, instead focusing exclusively on more ‘serious’ genres. However, several collections of recreational song published in the period present these songs as legitimate humanist works. In some cases, these collections offer the first English translations of classical and Renaissance poems. Nicholas Yonge’s Musica transalpina (1588) and Thomas Watson’s Italian madrigalls Englished (1590), for example, call attention to their translations of eminent Italian poets (Petrarch, Ariosto, Tasso) and address themselves to classically learned readers. The humanist character of such anthologies was well enough known to be satirized by Thomas Weelkes in his Ayeres and phantasticke spirites (1608), whose classical references have seldom been seriously considered. At the heart of these exchanges is an implicit debate over whether recreational song texts are an appropriate vehicle for humanist learning.","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":" 571","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135185975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EARLY MUSICPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1093/em/caad041
Thomas McGeary
{"title":"Miscellany on the London stage","authors":"Thomas McGeary","doi":"10.1093/em/caad041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad041","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Miscellany on the London stage Get access Alison C. DeSimone, The power of pastiche: musical miscellany and cultural identity in early eighteenth-century England. Studies in British Musical Cultures (Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2021), $143 Thomas McGeary Thomas McGeary thomas_mcgeary@hotmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8337-7361 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Early Music, caad041, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad041 Published: 03 November 2023","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":"25 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135874681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EARLY MUSICPub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1093/em/caad032
Joshua Rifkin
{"title":"Singing nuns? More on the story of Verona 761","authors":"Joshua Rifkin","doi":"10.1093/em/caad032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Considers recent arguments about the choirbook Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, Ms. dccxli, and a convent in the city where it resides.","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135977255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EARLY MUSICPub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1093/em/caad043
Jamie Savan
{"title":"<i>Poca robba, ma buona</i>: the recorded legacy of ornamentation practice in 16th- and 17th-century music","authors":"Jamie Savan","doi":"10.1093/em/caad043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136106008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EARLY MUSICPub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1093/em/caad039
Colin Timms
{"title":"Steffani’s <i>Amor vien dal Destino</i>: new answers to old questions","authors":"Colin Timms","doi":"10.1093/em/caad039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad039","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Steffani made an important contribution to the cultivation of Italian opera in north Germany. Amor vien dal Destino must have been composed at Hanover in the 1690s but was not performed until 1709, at Düsseldorf. Several questions arise. Was it meant for 1694, the only year during his period at Hanover when there was no opera at the court? If so, why was it not performed? Why was it not performed before 1709? Why was it then staged at Düsseldorf? Why and how was the opera revised for that production? Who were the singers involved? Answers emerge from consideration of the Düsseldorf wordbook (especially its preface), of the autograph score and a hitherto neglected manuscript copy in Hanover, and of the circumstances of the two courts concerned. If these answers are correct, they demonstrate a close relationship between the opera and its social and political context.","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135218556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}