Instruments, Ensembles, and Repertory, 1300-1600
Essays in Honour of Keith Polk
Edited by Timothy J McGee Edited by Stewart Carter
Twelve essays that shed new light on various aspects of the performance of Medieval and Renaissance music.
Over the past 45 years, Keith Polk has been one of the major scholars in the history of musical instruments and their repertories during the period 1300 – 1600. His publications have been extremely helpful in elucidating the development of the instruments, the repertory they performed, and the role played by instruments and instrumentalists in late medieval and Renaissance society. This collection of twelve essays on medieval and Renaissance music performance topics adds to the areas in which Keith Polk has made significant contributions, namely instruments, ensembles, and repertory. The scope of the individual essays varies in terms of geographical and temporal focus, with some involving an issue that was common to all areas of Europe, while others are specifically aimed at a single instrument, ensemble, composition, country, city, or occasion. Most of the essays are historical in nature, centring on how music was performed in particular circumstances, although some are quite practical and explain performance techniques involving voices and instruments. What unites the twelve essays is that they all shed new light on musical performance in Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. The writers chosen for this volume are all highly respected scholars whose writings are always of the highest calibre. Taken as a whole, the essays in this volume make an excellent contribution to the field of music history.
Introduction About the honouree I. INSTRUMENTS 1. A Tale of Bells and Bows: Stalking the U-slide Trumpet - Stewart Carter 2. The Medieval Fiddle: Tuning, Technique, and Repertory - Timothy J. McGee 3. Lute Ladies and Old Men in Early Sixteenth-Century Flemish Paintings: Mirrors, Magdalenes, Mottoes, Moralities, Vanities, Allegories - H. Colin Slim 4. Organs and Instrumental Performance at the Collegiate Church of St Omer, Northern France, in the Later Middle Ages - Andrew Kirkman II. ENSEMBLES 5. Renaissance Piety and Ceremony: Antwerps Speellieden at Work - Kristine K. Forney 6. Music in Late-Medieval Tours and Orleans: A Reflection of Political Allegiance in the Loire Valley - Gretchen Peters 7. Reverse Engineering Fifteenth-Century Counterpoint: Es solt ein man kein mole farn and Cancon de pifari dco. el Ferrarese - Adam Gilbert 8. Ensemble Improvisation in the Fifteenth-Century Mensural Dance Repertoire - Ross Duffin III. REPERTORY 9. Reclaiming the Past: Bishop Antonio Altovitis Entrance into Florence in 1567 - Frank A. DAccone 10. Out of the Shadows: The Double Canon En lombre dung buissonnet - Louise Litterick 11. A Hidden Arrangement of Gentil madonna - David Fallows 12. A Lesson in Ficta from Bidon? - Joshua Rifkin Appendix: Keith Polk-Publications
- Edited by Timothy J McGee
- Edited by Stewart Carter
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