Papal patronage and the music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 / Christopher A. Reynolds.
| Author/creator | Reynolds, Christopher A. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995. |
| Description | xvii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Before the hiring of northerners, 1380-1447 -- Northern musicians at St. Peter's, 1447-1513 -- Organs -- SPB80 and the St. Peter's manuscript tradition -- The patronage of northerners at St. Peter's -- Musical connoisseurship -- Faugues: Attribution and association -- Caron: Attribution -- Martini: Association and attribution -- Contrapuntal allusions in polyphonic masses -- Northern polyphony, northern composers and humanist rhetoric -- The changing status of northerners at St. Peter's -- Appendix 1. Archival records pertaining to music at St. Peter's -- Appendix 2. Musical personnel at St. Peter's, 1421-1508 -- Appendix 3. Nationality of St. Peter's singers (1477-1513), known or presumed -- Appendix 4. Inventory of SPB80 and list of manuscript abbreviations -- Appendix 5. Occurrences of the motive d-f-e-a in works from circa 1430 to 1470. |
| Abstract | Examining archival documents, musical styles, and issues of artistic patronage and cultural context, the author offers a new picture of music at the basilica of St. Peter's in the fifteenth century. An expanding commitment to music during this period is signaled by the construction of several organs, the employment of singers from outside Italy, and the gathering of an international group of composers and scribes. The attraction of St. Peter's for northerners attests to the strength of the system of clerical patronage that existed from the Avignon papacy to the Council of Trent. The resulting artistic flowering left us the earliest documentable tradition of written polyphony in Rome. Part 1 of this study is a historical account of singers, music scribes, composers, organists, and other instrumentalists. In Part 2, the author examines several anonymous masses copied at St. Peter's, proposing attributions that have biographical implications for the composers. In Part 3, he examines the music to reveal the composers' cultural values and educational backgrounds in order to refute the accepted view that northern composers upheld scholastic values in a humanistic cultural milieu. In revealing a developing nationalism in patronage, which by the end of the century sought to favor Italian musicians once again, this book chronicles changes in musical tastes and styles. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pagse 403-428) and index. |
| LCCN | 94005292 |
| ISBN | 0520082125 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520082120 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML3033.8.R66 R49 1995 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |