Companion to music in the age of the Catholic monarchs /

The '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 authoriti...

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Other Authors: Knighton, Tess, 1957- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Series:Brill's companions to the musical culture of medieval and early modern Europe ; v. 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Tess Knighton
  • Music for the royal chapels / Kenneth Kreitner
  • Secular song in fifteenth-century Spain / Jane Whetnall
  • Instruments, instrumental music, and instrumentalists : traditions and transitions / Tess Knighton
  • Musica and spectacle / Ronald E. Surtz
  • Love and liberality? music in the courts of the Spanish nobility / Roberta Freund Schwartz
  • Music and musicians at the Portuguese royal court and chaoel, c.1470-c.1500 / Bernadette Nelson
  • Cathedral soundscape : some new persepctives / Juan Ruiz Jimâenez
  • Chant, liturgy, and reform / Mercedes Castillo-Ferreira
  • Musical cultures in the Reinos de Indias at the time of Isabel and Ferdinand / Javier Marâin Lâopez
  • The Roman connection : the Spanish nation in the Papal chapel, 1429-1521 / Richard Sherr
  • Manuscripts of polyphony from the time of Isabel and Ferdinand / Emilio Ros-Fâabregas
  • Spanish treatises on musica practica c.1480-1525 : reflections from a cultural perspective / Pilar Ramos Lâopez
  • Unwritten music and oral traditions at the time of Ferdinand and Isabel / Giuseppe Fiorentino
  • Lost voices : women and music at the time of the Catholic monarchs / Ascensiâon Mazuela-Anguita
  • Musical lives : late medieval Hispano-Jewish communities / Eleazar Gutwirth.