The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music

Presents a single-volume history of sixteenth-century music that focuses on the different ways people encountered music in their everyday lives.

Iain Fenlon (Edited by), Richard Wistreich (Edited by)

9780521195942, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 January 2019

542 pages, 36 b/w illus. 4 maps 1 table
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm, 1 kg

'… rich in detail … The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music, in short, invites us to consider these themes, and to revisit the beautiful music of the period with renewed curiosity.' Richard Freedman, Revue de musicologie

Part of the seminal Cambridge History of Music series, this volume departs from standard histories of early modern Western music in two important ways. First, it considers music as something primarily experienced by people in their daily lives, whether as musicians or listeners, and as something that happened in particular locations, and different intellectual and ideological contexts, rather than as a story of genres, individual counties, and composers and their works. Second, by constraining discussion within the limits of a 100-year timespan, the music culture of the sixteenth century is freed from its conventional (and tenuous) absorption within the abstraction of 'the Renaissance', and is understood in terms of recent developments in the broader narrative of this turbulent period of European history. Both an original take on a well-known period in early music and a key work of reference for scholars, this volume makes an important contribution to the history of music.

Introduction Iain Fenlon and Richard Wistreich
Part I. Confessions, Identities, and Rhetorics of Power: 1. Catholic music in the sixteenth century Robert L. Kendrick
2. Lutheranism and Calvinism Alexander Fisher
3. Music and reform in France, England and Scotland Magnus Williamson
4. Music in the early colonial world Olivia Bloechl
4.1. Mexico City Melinda Latour
4.2. The Catholic Mission to Japan 1549–1614 Olivia Bloechl
5. Music and War Richard Wistreich
Part II. Culture, Place and Practice: 6. Urban soundscapes Iain Fenlon
7. Interior spaces for music Flora Dennis
8. The lives of musicians Richard Wistreich
9. Domestic music Kate van Orden
Part III. Institutions, Ideas and the Order of Nature: 10. Institutions and intellectual life
10.1. Italy Giuseppe Gerbino
10.2. Germany Inga Mai Groote
11. Music theory and pedagogy Thomas Christensen
12. Music and science Floris Cohen and Jacomien Prins
13. Music and magic Angela Voss.

Subject Areas: Medieval & Renaissance music [c 1000 to c 1600 AVGC2], Music [AV]