Music In The German Renaissance

Edited by John Kmetz

This collection of fourteen essays, written by an eminent group of scholars, explores the musical culture of the German-speaking realm between c.1450 and 1600. The essays demonstrate the important role played by German speakers in the development of instrumental music in the Renaissance, the shaping of the curricula of musical education in the modern age, in setting patterns of musical patronage, in establishing congregational singing in churches, and in developing commercial music printing. The essays shed new light on the music that flourished at Imperial and ducal courts, universities, parish churches, collegiate schools, as well as the homes of prosperous merchants. The volume thus provides an overview of German polyphonic music in the age of Gutenberg, Dürer and Luther and documents the changing social status of music in Germany during a crucial epoch of its history.

Bibliographic Details

22 b/w illus. 7 tables 148 music examples

Contents

• List of illustrations
• Preface
• List of abbreviations
• Part I. Sources: 1. Dufay songs in German manuscripts Lorenz Welker
• 2. An Isaac autograph Jessie Ann Owens
• 3. Music in the library of Johannes Klein Tom Ward
• 4. Heinrich Glareans books Iain Fenlon
• 5. Georg Knoff: bibliophile and devotee of Italian music in late sixteenth-century Danzig Martin Morell
• Part II. Styles: 6. Polyphony based on chant in a late fifteenth-century German manuscript Martin Just
• 7. An early Missa brevis in Trent Codex 91 Adelyn Peck Leverett
• 8. The constitution of the fifteenth-century German tenor lied: drafting the history of a musical genre Martin Staehelin
• 9. Lied and madrigal, 1580–1600 Ludwig Finscher
• Part III. Contexts: 10. The motet texts of Philippe de Vitry in German humanist manuscripts of the fifteenth century Andrew Wathey
• 11. Innovation in instrumental music 1450–1520: the role of German performers within European culture Keith Polk
• 12. The Piperinus-Amerbach partbooks: six months of music lessons in Renaissance Basle John Kmetz
• 13. The Salzburg liturgy and single-impression music printing Stanley Boorman
• 14. Music and patronage at the court of Rudolf II Robert Lindell
• Indices
• Manuscripts
• Printed editions of music
• General.