Networks of music and culture in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries : a collection of essays in celebration of Peter Philips's 450th anniversary

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NETWORKS OF MUSIC AND CULTURE IN THE LATE
SIXTEENTH AND EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth
and Early Seventeenth Centuries
A Collection of Essays in Celebration of Peter Philips’s 450th
Anniversary
Edited by
DAVID J. SMITH
University of Aberdeen, UK
RACHELLE TAYLOR
McGill University, Canada
with the assistance of Julia R. Dokter
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Networks of music and culture in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth
centuries : a collection of essays in celebration of Peter Philips’s 450th
anniversary / edited by David J. Smith and Rachelle Taylor.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-47241198-3 (hardcover) 1. Music—16th century—History and
criticism. 2. Music—17th century—History and criticism. 3. Music—Social
aspects. 4. Philips, Peter, 1561–1628. I. Smith, David J. (David John), 1965–
editor of compilation. II. Taylor, Rachelle, editor of compilation.
ML55.P515 2014
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Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Music Examples
List of Appendices
Manuscript Sigla and Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
David J. Smith
2 The Interconnection of Religious, Social and Musical Networks: Creating a
Context for the Keyboard Music of Peter Philips and its Dissemination
David J. Smith
3 The Liber fratrum cruciferorum Leodiensium and the Dissemination of Organ
Repertoire in the Netherlands during the Seventeenth Century
Émilie Corswarem
4 The Pious Mr Philips and his Few-Voiced Motets at Isabella’s Confraternity of
Our Lady
Anne Lyman
5 The Ear of the Lynx: The Musical Legacy of the Accademia dei Lincei
Naomi J. Barker
6 Politics, Religion, Style and the Passamezzo Galliards of Byrd and Philips: A
Discussion of Networks Involving Byrd and his Disciples
Rachelle Taylor and Frauke Jürgensen
7 Musical Rhetoric Lost in Translation: National, Religious and Linguistic
Networks and the Determination of Title in Sweelinck’s Organ Variations on
Psalm 36
Julia R. Dokter
8 What is a Composer? Problems of Attribution in Keyboard Music from the
Circle of Philips and Sweelinck
David Schulenberg
9 Orlando Gibbons’s Keyboard Music: The Continental Perspective
Pieter Dirksen
10 A Pattern Recognition Approach to the Attribution of Early Seventeenth-
Century Keyboard Compositions using Features of Diminutions
Peter van Kranenburg and Johan Zoutendijk
11 ‘Full of Art, and Profundity’: The Five-Part Consort Pavan as a Medium for
Sophisticated Musical Expression and Compositional Cross-Reference in
Late Renaissance England
John Bryan
12 Networking, Patronage and Professionalism in the Early History of Violin
Playing: The Case of William Brade (c.1560–1630)
Arne Spohr
13 Practice and Dissemination of Music in the Catholic Network as Suggested
by the Music Collection of Edward Paston (1550–1630) and Other
Contemporary Sources
Hector Sequera
14 Social Networking in Seventeenth-Century Italy: The ‘Harmonious Letters’
of a Monk-Musician
Abigail Ballantyne
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
3.1 Matthaus le jeune, map of the City of Liège (etching, 28.5 × 27.5 cm, 1650).
Reproduced by permission of the Collections artistiques de l’Université de
Liège.
3.2 Liber fratrum cruciferorum, f. 40v. Reproduced by permission of Université
de Liège, Bibliothèque générale de Philosophie et Lettres.
5.1 Stelluti, Persio tradotto in verso sciolto (Rome, 1630), p. 187. © British
Library Board, shelf-mark 77.d.14.
12.1 William Brade, Außerlesener Paduanen und Galliarden Erster Theil
(Hamburg, 1609), title page of ‘Basso’ part. Herzog August Bibliothek,
Wolfenbüttel: 36.4 Musica Helmst (7). Reproduced by permission.
14.1 Adriano Banchieri, Lettere amoniche (Bologna, 1628), title page.
Reproduced by permission of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della
musica di Bologna.
14.2 Adriano Banchieri, Lettere scritte (Bologna, 1630), title page. Reproduced
by permission of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di
Bologna.
14.3 Example of a ‘Pleasant letter’ that Adriano Banchieri sent to an anonymous
recipient (Banchieri 1628, p. 56). Reproduced by permission of the Museo
internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna.
14.4 Transcription and translation of a letter to an anonymous friend included in
Adriano Banchieri’s Lettere armoniche (Bologna, 1628), p. 14.
List of Tables
2.1 Letters containing information about Philips’s journey to Amsterdam
2.2 Keyboard works by Philips preserved only in Spanish Netherlands sources
4.1 The endowed Saturday services of Peter Philips, 1623–28
4.2 Marian motets of Peter Philips and the post-Tridentine Recollectio
7.1 List of possible texts for Sweelinck’s set of variations in Tor-5
7.2 French original and English translation of text
7.3 German translation (Lobwasser) and its English translation
7.4 Dutch translation (Dathenus) and its English translation
7.5 German translation: verse 1, line 5
7.6 Dutch and German translations: verse 1, lines 8 and 9
7.7 Dutch translation: verse 2, line 3
7.8 Dutch and German translations: verse 2, line 6
7.9 Dutch and German translations: verse 2, lines 8 and 9
7.10 Dutch translation: verse 2, line 11
8.1 Plans of the Fantasia after Sweelinck (BuK 4) and Fantasia terza, both from
Me
9.1 Summary content of LyA2, pp. 38–67
10.1 Anonymous pieces attributed to Peter Philips
10.2 Table of contents of the Vincentius de la Faille Manuscript (1625), based
on Charles Van den Borren’s description
10.3 Ghent 96: pieces copied by Scribe IV
10.4 Overview of the compositions used for this study
10.5 Occurrence rates of the ten most common five-note patterns
10.6 Occurrence rates of the ten most common four-note patterns
10.7 Classification results for the diminutions in the disputed compositions
11.1 Comparison of ranges of parts in pavans
12.1 Printed sources of Brade’s music
12.2 William Brade: employment in Denmark and northern Germany, 1594–
1630
12.3 Instrumentalists in the Danish Hofkapelle and their salaries (in Taler),
1598–1606
13.1 Ownership of musical instruments (by popularity)