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Book SynopsisThe Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs, edited by Tess Knighton, offers a major new study that deepens and enriches our understanding of the forms and functions of music that flourished in late medieval Spanish society. The fifteen essays, written by leading authorities in the field, present a synthesis based on recently discovered material that throws new light on different aspects of musical life during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabel (1474-1516): sacred and secular music-making in royal and aristocratic circles; the cathedral music environment; liturgy and power; musical connections with Rome, Portugal and the New World; theoretical and unwritten musical practices; women as patrons and performers; and the legacy of Jewish musical tradition. Contributors are Mercedes Castillo Ferreira, Giuseppe Fiorentino, Roberta Freund Schwartz, Eleazar Gutwirth, Tess Knighton, Kenneth Kreitner, Javier Marín López, Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, Bernadette Nelson, Pilar Ramos López, Emilio Ros-Fábregas, Juan Ruiz Jiménez, Richard Sherr, Ronald Surtz, and Jane Whetnall.
Trade Review'A milestone of state-of-the-art research by nearly all of the most active scholars in the field. The scholarship is rigorous and wide-ranging, and clearly the product of recent and ongoing colloquy between the authors and the editor… a deeply satisfying mosaic of current knowledge that richly serves both specialists and the informed general reader and that will set the research agenda for further decades.' Michael Noone in: Renaissance Quarterly LXXI (2018). "Sin duda indispensable y modélico para cualquier estudioso de la historia de la música y de sus períodos." Juan Carlos Asensio, in Anuario de Estudios Medievales 49 (2019).
Table of ContentsContents List of Figures vii List of Music Examples x List of Tables xii List of Contributors xvi Introduction 1 Tess Knighton 1 Music for the Royal Chapels 21 Kenneth Kreitner 2 Secular Song in Fifteenth-Century Spain 60 Jane Whetnall 3 Instruments, Instrumental Music and Instrumentalists: Traditions and Transitions 97 Tess Knighton 4 Music and Spectacle 145 Ronald E. Surtz 5 Love and Liberality? Music in the Courts of the Spanish Nobility 173 Roberta Freund Schwartz 6 Music and Musicians at the Portuguese Royal Court and Chapel, c. 1470–c. 1500 205 Bernadette Nelson 7 Cathedral Soundscapes: Some New Perspectives 242 Juan Ruiz Jiménez 8 Chant, Liturgy and Reform 282 Mercedes Castillo-Ferreira 9 Musical Cultures in the Reinos de Indias at the Time of Isabel and Ferdinand 323 Javier Marín López 10 The Roman Connection: The Spanish Nation in the Papal Chapel, 1492–1521 364 Richard Sherr 11 Manuscripts of Polyphony from the Time of Isabel and Ferdinand 404 Emilio Ros-Fábregas 12 Spanish Treatises on Musica Practica c. 1480–1525: Reflections from a Cultural Perspective 469 Pilar Ramos López 13 Unwritten Music and Oral Traditions at the Time of Ferdinand and Isabel 504 Giuseppe Fiorentino 14 Lost Voices: Women and Music at the Time of the Catholic Monarchs 549 Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita 15 Musical Lives: Late medieval Hispano-Jewish Communities 579 Eleazar Gutwirth Works Cited 617 Index 702
