The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music
- Editor: Berger, Anna Maria Busse
- Editor: Rodin, Jesse
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Contents
- Introduction Anna Maria Busse Berger and Jesse Rodin;
- Part I . Historiography: (a) Listening:
- 1. Hearing Josquin hearing Busnoys Michael Long;
- 2. Religion and the senses in fifteenth-century Europe Klaus Pietschmann; (b) Terms and Concepts:
- 3. The work concept Laurenz Lutteken;
- 4. The L'homme arme tradition - and the limits of musical borrowing Jesse Rodin; (c) Composer Studies:
- 5. Guillaume Du Fay: evidence and interpretation Alejandro Enrique Planchart;
- 6. Jean d'Ockeghem Lawrence F. Bernstein;
- 7. Josquin and epistemology Jesse Rodin;
- Part II . Improvisation and Composition:
- 8. Oral composition in fifteenth-century music Anna Maria Busse Berger;
- 9. Improvisation as concept and musical practice in the fifteenth century Philippe Canguilhem;
- 10. How did Oswald von Wolkenstein make his contrafacta? Anna Maria Busse Berger;
- 11. Making a motet: Josquin's Ave Maria...virgo serena John Milsom;
- 12. The origins of pervasive imitation Julie E. Cumming and Peter Schubert;
- Part III . Humanism:
- 13. Humanism and music in Italy James Hankins;
- 14. Fifteenth-century humanism and music outside Italy Reinhard Strohm;
- 15. Poetic humanism and music in the fifteenth century Leofranc Holford-Strevens;
- 16. Canterino and Improvvisatore: oral poetry and performance Blake Wilson;
- 17. Liturgical Humanism: saints' offices from the Italian peninsula in the fifteenth century Alison K. Frazier;
- Part IV . Music and Other Arts:
- 18. Architecture and music in fifteenth-century Italy Deborah Howard;
- 19. Music and feasts in the fifteenth century Anthony M. Cummings;
- 20. French lyrics and songs for the New Year, c.1380-1420 Yolanda Plumley;
- Part V . Music in Churches, Courts, and Cities:
- 21. Musical institutions in the fifteenth century and their political contexts Klaus Pietschmann;
- 22. Music and musicians at the Burgundian court in the fifteenth century David Fiala;
- 23. The papal chapel in the late fifteenth century Richard Sherr;
- 24. The beneficial system and fifteenth-century polyphony Pamela F. Starr;
- 25. Professional women singers in the fifteenth century: a tale of two Annas Bonnie J. Blackburn;
- 26. Savonarola and the boys of Florence: songs and politics Patrick Macey;
- Part VI . Religious Devotion and Liturgy:
- 27. Music and ritual M. Jennifer Bloxam;
- 28. Marian devotion in the fifteenth century David J. Rothenberg;
- 29. Affective literature and sacred themes in fifteenth-century music Anne Walters Robertson;
- Part VII . Theory and Practice:
- 30. Measuring measurable music in the fifteenth century Anne Stone;
- 31. The transformative impulse Emily Zazulia;
- 32. Transformations in music theory and music treatises Evan A. MacCarthy;
- Part VIII . Sources:
- 33. Polyphonic sources, c.1400-50 Margaret Bent;
- 34. Polyphonic sources, c.1450-1500 Thomas Schmidt-Beste;
- Part IX . Genres:
- 35. The polyphonic mass in the fifteenth century Andrew Kirkman;
- 36. The fifteenth-century motet Laurenz Lutteken;
- 37. Fifteenth-century song Nicole Schwindt;
- 38. Instrumental music in the fifteenth century Keith Polk;
- 39. Sacred song in the fifteenth century: cantio, carol, lauda, Kirchenlied Reinhard Strohm;
- 40. Plainsong in the age of polyphony Richard Sherr;
- Part X . Reception:
- 41. The most popular songs of the fifteenth century David Fallows;
- 42. The nineteenth-century reception of fifteenth-century sacred music Andrew Kirkman;
- 43. The modern reception of the music of Jean d'Ockeghem Lawrence F. Bernstein;
- 44. Recordings of fifteenth-century music Honey Meconi;
- 45. Solidarity with the long-departed: fifteenth-century echoes in twentieth-century music Richard Taruskin.