The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music

543 Pages·2018·28.04 MB·English

by  Iain Fenlon (Editor)

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC
PartoftheseminalCambridgeHistoryofMusicseries,thisvolumedeparts
fromstandardhistoriesofearlymodernWesternmusicintwoimportant
ways. First, it considers music as something primarily experienced by
people in their daily lives, whether as musicians or as listeners, and as
somethingthathappenedinparticularlocations,anddifferentintellectual
andideologicalcontexts,ratherthanasastoryofgenres,countries,com-
posersandtheirworks.Second,byconstrainingdiscussionwithinthelimits
ofa100-yeartimespan,themusiccultureofthesixteenthcenturyisfreed
fromitsconventional(andtenuous)absorptionwithintheabstractionof
‘theRenaissance’,andisunderstoodintermsofrecentdevelopmentsinthe
broadernarrativeofthisturbulentperiodofEuropeanhistory.Bothasan
originaltakeonawell-knownperiodinearlymusicandasakeyworkof
referenceforscholars,thisvolumemakesanimportantcontributiontothe
historyofmusic.
IAIN FENLON is Emeritus Professor of Historical Musicology at the
UniversityofCambridge,andafellowofKing’sCollege.HeistheEditor
ofthejournalEarlyMusicHistory.HismostrecentbooksareTheCeremonial
City:History,MemoryandMythinRenaissanceVenice(2007),StMark’sSquare
(2009), and (co-edited with Inga Mai Groote) Heinrich Glarean’s Books:
TheIntellectualWorldofaSixteenth-CenturyMusicalHumanist(Cambridge,
2013).
RICHARDWISTREICHisProfessorofMusicandDirectorofResearchatthe
Royal College of Music in London. His published work includes
The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi (co-edited with John Whenham,
Cambridge,2008)andWarrior,Courtier,Singer:GiulioCesareBrancaccioand
thePerformanceofIdentityintheLateRenaissance(2007).Hehasalsohadalong
careerasaprofessionalsingerspecialisinginsixteenth-andseventeenth-
century music, during which he has made more than 100 commercial
recordings, appeared in opera, solo recitals, and as a member of several
seminalensemblesoftheearlymusicrevival.
THECAMBRIDGEHISTORYOF
MUSIC
TheCambridgeHistoryof Musiccomprises a groupofreference works
concernedwithsignificantstrandsofmusicalscholarship.Theindividual
volumes are self-contained and include histories of music examined by
centuryaswellasthehistoryofopera,musictheory,andAmericanmusic.
Eachvolumeiswrittenbyateamofexpertsunderaspecialisteditorand
representsthelatestmusicologicalresearch.
TheCambridgeHistoryofAmericanMusic
EditedbyDavidNicholls
TheCambridgeHistoryofWesternMusicTheory
EditedbyThomasChristensen
TheCambridgeHistoryofMusicalPerformance
EditedbyColinLawsonandRobinStowell
TheCambridgeHistoryofWorldMusic
EditedbyPhilipV.Bohlman
TheCambridgeHistoryofMedievalMusic
EditedbyMarkEveristandThomasForrestKelly
TheCambridgeHistoryofFifteenth-CenturyMusic
EditedbyAnnaMariaBusseBergerandJesseRodin
TheCambridgeHistoryofSixteenth-CenturyMusic
EditedbyIainFenlonandRichardWistreich
TheCambridgeHistoryofSeventeenth-CenturyMusic
EditedbyTimCarterandJohnButt
TheCambridgeHistoryofEighteenth-CenturyMusic
EditedbySimonP.Keefe
TheCambridgeHistoryofNineteenth-CenturyMusic
EditedbyJimSamson
TheCambridgeHistoryofTwentieth-CenturyMusic
EditedbyNicholasCookandAnthonyPople
THE CAMBRIDGE
HISTORY OF
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY
MUSIC
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EDITEDBY
IAIN FENLON
King’sCollege,Cambridge
RICHARD WISTREICH
RoyalCollegeofMusic,London
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Contents
ListofMapsandFigures vii
NotesontheContributors xi
Acknowledgements xv
ListofAbbreviations xvi
Maps xvii
Introduction 1
IAIN FENLON AND RICHARD WISTREICH
PART I CONFESSIONS, IDENTITIES,AND
RHETORICS OF POWER 25
1.CatholicMusic 27
ROBERT L. KENDRICK
2.LutheranismandCalvinism 56
ALEXANDER J. FISHER
3.MusicandReforminFrance,England,andScotland 92
MAGNUS WILLIAMSON
4.MusicintheEarlyColonialWorld 128
OLIVIA BLOECHL
CaseStudy1:MusicalEncountersin
Tenochtitlàn/MexicoCity 156
MELINDA LATOUR
CaseStudy2:TheCatholicMissiontoJapan,1549–1614 163
OLIVIA BLOECHL
5.MusicandWar 176
RICHARD WISTREICH
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vi Contents
PART II CULTURE,PLACE,AND PRACTICE 207
6.UrbanSoundscapes 209
IAIN FENLON
7.InteriorSpacesforMusic 260
FLORA DENNIS
8.TheLivesofMusicians 288
RICHARD WISTREICH
9.DomesticMusic 335
KATE VAN ORDEN
PART III INSTITUTIONS,IDEAS,AND THEORDER OF
NATURE 379
10.InstitutionsandIntellectualLife 381
10.1TheItalianPeninsula
GIUSEPPE GERBINO
10.2German-speakingLands 394
INGA MAI GROOTE
11.MusicTheoryandPedagogy 414
THOMAS CHRISTENSEN
12.Music,Science,andPhilosophy 439
JACOMIEN PRINS
13.MusicandMagic 472
ANGELA VOSS
Index 502
Maps and Figures
Maps
1 NorthernItalyinthesixteenthcentury;fromIainFenlon,Musicand
PatronageinSixteenth-CenturyMantua,2vols.(Cambridge1980),I,xiv;
reproducedwithpermission pagexviii
2 MainlandEuropein1547,showingHabsburglands,basedon
TheCambridgeModernHistoryAtlas(Cambridge,1912),Map10;reproduced
withpermission xix
3 TheHolyRomanEmpirein1547;fromJoachimWhaley,Germanyand
theHolyRomanEmpire,VolumeI:MaximilianItothePeaceofWestphalia,
1493–1648(Oxford,2011),xxi;reproducedwithpermissionofOxford
UniversityPress xx
4 HabsburgLowCountries,1566;fromGeertJanssen,TheDutchRevoltand
CatholicExileinReformationEurope(Cambridge,2014),xiii;reproduced
withpermission xxi
Figures
1.1 LuisdeGranada,OfPrayerandMeditation(Rouen,1584),title
page;TrinityCollege,Cambridge,C.8.4;reproduced
withpermission 29
1.2 WilliamByrd,Libersecundussacrarumcantionum(London,1591),title
page(superius);CambridgeUniversityLibrarySyn.6.59.13;reproduced
withpermission 48
2.1 MartinLuther,‘NunfreuteuchliebenChristengmein’,fromEtlich
CristlichLieder(Nuremberg:M.D.,1524),fol.[1v];StaatlicheBibliothek
Regensburg,999/4Theol.syst.758;reproducedwithpermission 65
2.2 ‘ErhaltunsHerrbeydeinemwort’,fromDasBabstscheGesangbuch1545,
ed.KonradAmeln,BVK909(Kassel,1966);reproducedwith
permission 71
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viii ListofMapsandFigures
2.3 JohannWalter,‘Austieffernotschreyichzudyr’,fromGeystliche
GesangkBuchleyn(Wittenberg,1524);Bayerische
StaatsbibliothekMünchen,Rar.6g,tenorpartbook,fol.[Av];
reproducedwithpermission 73
2.4 Lespseaumesmisenrimefrancoise(Geneva,1562),titlepage;Bibliothèque
publiqueetuniversitaireNeuchâtel,Switzerland,ZQ208;reproduced
fromE-rara.chwithpermission 82
3.1a JohnSheppard,Psalm3,‘OLordhowmanydoincrease’,composed
c.1548–9(London,BritishLibrary,AdditionalMS15166,fol.58r);
reproducedwithpermission 104
3.1b JohnSheppard,Psalm21,‘OLordhowjoyfulistheking’,withtheend
ofPsalm20,‘Introubleandadversity’,bothprobablycomposedin1549
(London,BritishLibrary,AdditionalMS15166,fols.28v–29r);
reproducedwithpermission 105
3.2 Johnson,‘Domineinvirtutetua’,EdinburghUniversityLibrary,MS
La.III.483(2),156(DIAMM) 117
4.1 Ivoryhorn(sixteenthcentury),fromBenin,WestAfrica;British
Museum,Af1959,14.2;reproducedwithpermission 138
4.2 MassacreatthefestivalofToxcatl,CodexAzcatítlan,fol.23r;courtesyof
theBibliothèquenationaledeFrance 157
5.1 MasterM.Z.,FourSoldiersandMilitaryBand(c.1500);TheCleveland
MuseumofArt,DudleyP.AllenFund1948.301;reproducedwith
permission 189
5.2 PieterBruegeltheElder,TheThreeSoldiers(1568);©TheFrick
Collection;reproducedwithpermission 191
5.3 ‘TheVoluntariebeforetheMarch’;reproducedbypermissionofthe
PepysLibrary,MagdaleneCollege,Cambridge 192
6.1 GiacomoFranco,GiovedìGrassointhePiazzetta,fromHabitid’uominiet
donneVenetiane(Venice,c.1610);photo:author’scollection 217
6.2 ViewofToulouse:NicolasBertrand,DominiNicolaiBertrandi...opusde
Tholosano[rum]gestisabvrbecōdita(Toulouse,1515);colophon;
CambridgeUniversityLibrary,withpermission 229
6.3 MatteoPagan,ProcessioninStMark’sSquare;Venice,MuseoCorrer
(1556–9);photo:author’scollection 234
6.4 Custodia,fromJuandeArfeyVillafañe,DeVariaCommensuracionparala
Esculptura(Seville,1585),BookIV,fol.38v;reproducedbypermission
oftheNationalLibraryofScotland 236
6.5 PieterBruegeltheElder,TheFeastofFools,engravedbyPietervander
Heyden(after1570);FitzwilliamMuseum,Cambridge;reproduced
withpermission 237
ListofMapsandFigures ix
7.1 SectionoftheOdeoCornaro,Padua:SebastianoSerlio,Architecturae
liberseptimus(Frankfurt,1575);CambridgeUniversityLibrary;
reproducedwithpermission 264
7.2 Frontispiece,Intabolaturadeleutodediversiautori(Milan,1536);
ÖsterreichischeNationalbibliothek;reproducedwithpermission 279
8.1 JakobWimpfeling,Defideconcubaruminsacerdotes(Basel,c.1501),fol.
C8;BayerischeStaatsbibliothekMünchen/Bildarchiv;reproduced
withpermission 293
8.2 ArnoltSchlick,SpiegelderOrgelmacherundOrganisten(Mainz,1511),
titlepage;©TheBritishLibraryBoard,HirschI546;reproducedwith
permission 296
8.3 ‘DreyPfeiffer’,inJostAmman,Panopliaomniumilliberalium
mechanicarumautsedentariarumartium(FrankfurtamMain,1568);
reproducedwithpermission 319
9.1 AbrahamBosse,L’Ouye(‘Hearing’),etching,c.1638;imagecopyright©
TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt,accessionnumber26.49.22;
reproducedwithpermission 345
9.2 Maiolicadish,1525–30,tin-glazedearthenware,dia.24cm;Faenza,
MuseoInternazionaledelleCeramiche;reproducedwith
permission 356
10.1 JacopoSansovino,VestibuleoftheLibraryofSanMarco,Venice;photo:
OsvualdoBöhm,author’scollection 391
10.2 AnnotationsbyHeinrichGlareanonthefirstpageofacopyofJohannes
Cochlaeus’Musica(Cologne,1507),withaschemeforintervalratiosand
ascaladiagram;©BibliothèqueRoyaledeBelgique,IncA182[RP];
reproducedwithpermission 397
10.3 AcopyofGlarean’sDodekachordon(1547)annotatedbyJohannesAlgoer
onthebasisofGlarean’ssetofglossestothetext;
UniversitätsbibliothekFreiburgi.Br./HistorischesSammlungen,Rara
F9254;reproducedwithpermission 401
11.1 FrontispiecetoGeorgRhau,Enchiridionutriusquemusicaepracticae
(Wittenberg,1518);BayerischeStaatsbibliothekMünchen/Bildarchiv;
reproducedwithpermission 421
11.2 Gaffuriolecturinghisstudents,fromtheDeharmoniamusicorum
instrumentorumopus;reproducedbyCambridgeUniversityLibrary,with
permission 432
12.1 GalileoGalilei’s‘strokes’explainingtheconsonanceofthefifth,from
Discorsiedimostrazionimatematiche(Leiden,1638);reproducedby
CambridgeUniversityLibrary,withpermission 454