EARLY MUSICPub Date : 2024-01-20DOI: 10.1093/em/caad046
David Vickers
{"title":"Baroque operas from madness to enlightenment","authors":"David Vickers","doi":"10.1093/em/caad046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139610171","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 : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1093/em/caad057
Elizabeth Eva Leach
{"title":"Female-voice song before 1500","authors":"Elizabeth Eva Leach","doi":"10.1093/em/caad057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139385772","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 : 2023-12-16DOI: 10.1093/em/caad060
Peter Holman
{"title":"The wreck of the Gloucester revisited","authors":"Peter Holman","doi":"10.1093/em/caad060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad060","url":null,"abstract":"The wreck of the frigate Gloucester off Norfolk on 6 May 1682 has always figured in histories of the Restoration period; it was taking James, Duke of York (the future James II and VII) to Edinburgh to collect his wife Mary of Modena and his daughter Princess Anne after his years of exile in Scotland. It has long been known that there were royal musicians on board, two of whom were drowned, though interest in the subject has been rekindled by the discovery of the wreck and an exhibition of artefacts from it in Norwich in 2023. Some other historic wrecks have proved to contain musical instruments, including the Mary Rose and several Dutch ships, though the Gloucester is unique in that a musical artefact—a brass trumpet mouthpiece—can be matched to documentary evidence concerning the musicians on board. Court documents concerned with replacing lost instruments and compensating survivors and the families of victims show that those on board included four royal trumpeters and a kettledrummer (Walter Vanbright, who was drowned); a five-man group drawn from the Twenty-Four Violins, led by the composer Thomas Farmer and including Thomas Greeting (who was also drowned); and the oboist, recorder player and bass violinist James Paisible, who had apparently been working in Edinburgh in the Duke of York’s household. Paisible may have been a member of Farmer’s string group, though there is a possibility that he was accompanied by three other French musicians, forming a separate recorder/oboe consort. An anecdote concerning James rescuing the string player Edmund Flower from drowning throws light on the musical and religious politics on board the Gloucester: the earliest version, published in 1730, claimed wrongly that the duke ‘turn’d him out of his band because he would not turn Papist’.","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138692219","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 : 2023-12-09DOI: 10.1093/em/caad061
Linda Phyllis Austern
{"title":"‘Well sorted and ordered’: sociable music-making and gentlemen’s recreation in the era of Byrd and Weelkes","authors":"Linda Phyllis Austern","doi":"10.1093/em/caad061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad061","url":null,"abstract":"Sociable music-making from notation had become a marker of status by the time of Byrd’s and Weelkes’s printed anthologies of part-songs. However, there was ambivalence about its suitability for gentlemen in a time when ideas of manhood were undergoing redefinition and when both gender and class were reinforced through display. Men of wealth and leisure were encouraged to balance musical recreation with more physically or intellectually demanding pursuits, not let it distract from necessary obligations nor be used for excessive devotion to women. Performing music among same-sex social equals in the context of other pastimes satisfied these conditions and reinforced friendship, collaboration, healthy competition and gamesmanship. Part-songs suggesting such strenuous cooperative ventures as warfare and hunting especially bridged the gentlemen’s domains of action and intellect. Single-sex performance also provided an opportunity to contest yet reinforce masculine ideals and to play a range of gender roles among social intimates, especially through compositions which encoded notions of manliness and effeminacy or which bridged the sensory domains of sight and sound.","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138561504","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 : 2023-12-09DOI: 10.1093/em/caad058
Johanna-Pauline Thöne, James R Tomlinson
{"title":"Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Munich","authors":"Johanna-Pauline Thöne, James R Tomlinson","doi":"10.1093/em/caad058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138585550","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 : 2023-12-02DOI: 10.1093/em/caad030
Jason Smart
{"title":"John Sheppard and the Ewens: a closer look","authors":"Jason Smart","doi":"10.1093/em/caad030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caad030","url":null,"abstract":"The known musical career of John Sheppard spans just 15 years. In 1543, when he was probably still in his late twenties, he was appointed informator choristarum of Magdalen College, Oxford. At his death in 1558, at about the age of 43, he was a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, perhaps having been appointed on leaving Oxford in 1548. A recent article draws attention to the fact that, early in the reign of Queen Mary, Sheppard and his family were involved in a legal action concerning a group of properties in the parish of St Clement Danes, Middlesex. Deeper investigation of this dispute reveals where Sheppard’s geographical ties lay shortly before his Oxford appointment. It allows us to pinpoint with a high degree of confidence when and where his first marriage took place and to understand a little of the young couple’s circumstances. A separate action, in which he appeared as a joint plaintiff with his Chapel Royal colleague Luke Caustell, is less revealing, but potentially points to a connection with the same geographical region of England.","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138540679","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 : 2023-11-18DOI: 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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}