The Museum of Renaissance Music

[ardcarp]

Hannah French leafs through a new book of 100 exhibits exploring Renaissance music history, in conversation with its editors Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard.

I don't quite know what to expect from Hannah's 'leafing through', or indeed the 'exhibits'. We shall find out on Sunday.

[DracoM]

We shall indeed!

[AuntDaisy]

Thanks ardcarp.

The Eton Choirbook would be good and Dolmetsch’s Spinet sounds interesting, ditto Josquin.
My money's on "Assassin’s Creed: Ezio Trilogy" appearing - to attract the youngsters
Not sure about "Ode to a Screw" (a quick search found a YouTube version that even R1 might baulk at).
Just hoping there's no intrusive round-up of Early Music News this week.

From the book's blurb:

This book collates 100 exhibits with accompanying essays as an imaginary museum dedicated to the musical cultures of Renaissance Europe, at home and in its global horizons. It is a history through artefacts - materials, tools, instruments, art objects, images, texts, and spaces - and their witness to the priorities and activities of people in the past as they addressed their world through music. The result is a history by collage, revealing overlapping musical practices and meanings - not only those of the elite, but reflecting the everyday cacophony of a diverse culture and its musics. Through the lens of its exhibits, this museum surveys music's central role in culture and lived experience in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe, offering interest and insights well beyond the strictly musicological field

TOC here

TABLE OF CONTENTS
• I. The Room of Devotions
Introduction (Matthew Laube)
1 Silence (Barbara Baert)
2 Virgin and Child with Angels (M. Jennifer Bloxam)
3 Madonna of Humility (Beth Williamson)
4 Virgin Annunciate (Marina Nordera)
5 The Prato "Haggadah" (Eleazar Gutwirth)
6 The Musicians of the Holy Church, Exempt from Tax (Geoffrey Baker)
7 A Devotional Song from Iceland (Árni Heimir Ingólfsson)
8 Alabaster Altarpiece (James Cook, Andrew Kirkman, Zuleika Murat, and Philip Weller)
9 The Mass of St Gregory (Bernadette Nelson)
Psalters
10 Bernardino de Sahagún’s "Psalmodia christiana" (Lorenzo Candelaria)
11 The "Սաղմոսարան" of Abgar Dpir Tokhatetsi (Ortensia Giovannini)
12 A Printed Hymnal by Jacobus Finno (Sanna Raninen)
13 "The Whole Booke of Psalmes" (Jonathan Willis)
• II. The Room of Domestic Objects
Introduction (Paul Schleuse)
14 Commonplace Book (Kate van Orden)
15 Knife (Flora Dennis)
16 Playing Cards (Katelijne Schiltz)
17 Cabinet of Curiosities (Franz Körndle)
18 Table (Katie Bank)
19 Statue (Laura Moretti)
20 Valance (Katherine Butler)
21 Painting (Camilla Cavicchi)
22 Fan (Flora Dennis)
23 Tapestry (Carla Zecher)
Sensualities
24 Venus (Tim Shephard)
25 Sirens (Eugenio Refini)
26 Death and the Maiden (Katherine Butler)
27 Erotokritos Sings a Love Song to Aretousa (Alexandros Maria Hatzikiriakos)
• III. The Room of Books
Introduction (Elisabeth Giselbrecht)
28 Chansonnier of Margaret of Austria (Vincenzo Borghetti)
29 The Constance Gradual (Marianne C.E. Gillion)
30 The Bible of Borso d’Este (Serenella Sessini)
31 The Jistebnice Cantionale (Lenka Hlávková)
32 The Saxilby Fragment (Lisa Colton and James Cook)
33 "Le Jardin de Plaisance et Fleur de Rhétorique" (Jane H. M. Taylor)
34 "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili" (Massimo Privitera)
35 Embroidered Partbooks (Birgit Lodes)
36 "Grande Musicque" Typeface (Louisa Hunter-Bradley)
37 Coat of Arms of Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg (Elisabeth Giselbrecht)
38 The Eton Choirbook (Magnus Williamson)
39 "Liber Quindecim Missarum" (Paweł Gancarczyk)
40 "Les simulachres & historiées faces de la mort" (Katelijne Schiltz)
Imagined Spaces
41 The Musical Staff (Jane Alden)
42 Deduit’s Garden (Sylvia Huot)
43 Arcadia (Giuseppe Gerbino)
44 Heaven (Laura Ștefănescu)
• IV. The Room of Instruments
Introduction (Emanuela Vai)
45 Lady Playing the Vihuela da Mano (David R. M. Irving)
46 Double Virginals (Moritz Kelber)
47 Horn from Allgäu (Martin Kirnbauer)
48 Inventory after the Death of Madame Montcuyt (Emily Peppers)
49 Girl Playing the Virginals (Laura S. Ventura Nieto)
50 Vihuela (John Griffiths)
51 Bagpipes (John J. Thompson)
52 Kös (Kate van Orden)
• V. The Room of Sacred Spaces
Introduction (David Fiala)
53 The Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, Florence (Giovanni Zanovello)
54 Hauptkirche Beatae Mariae Virginis, Wolfenbüttel (Inga Mai Groote)
55 A Sow Playing the Organ (Mattias Lundberg)
56 Ceiling with the Muses and Apollo (Tim Shephard)
57 St Katherine’s Convent Church, Augsburg (Barbara Eichner)
58 Misericord (Frédéric Billiet)
59 The Chapel of King Sigismund, Wawel Cathedral, Krakow (Paweł Gancarczyk)
60 The Bell Founder’s Window, York Minster (Lisa Colton)
61 Organ Shutters from the Cathedral of Ferrara (Sophia D’Addio)
62 The Cathedral of St James, Šibenik (Ennio Stipčević)
63 The Funeral Monument of the Princess of Éboli (Iain Fenlon)
• VI. The Room of the Public Sphere
Introduction (Robert L. Kendrick)
64 Street Music from Barcelona (Tess Knighton)
65 African Musicians at the King’s Fountain in Lisbon (Nuno de Mendonça Raimundo)
66 Songs for Hanukkah and Purim from Venice (Diana Matut)
67 A Tragedy from Ferrara (Laurie Stras)
68 A Bosnian Gravestone (Zdravko Blažeković)
69 Morris Dancers from Germany (Anne Daye)
70 A Princely Wedding in Düsseldorf (Klaus Pietschmann)
Cities
71 Mexico City – Tenochtitlan (Javier Marín-López)
72 Dijon (Gretchen Peters)
73 Milan (Daniele V. Filippi)
74 Munich (Alexander J. Fisher)
Travels
75 The Travels of Pierre Belon du Mans (Carla Zecher)
76 Aflatun Charms the Wild Animals with the Music of the Arghanun (Jonathan Katz)
77 Granada in Georg Braun’s "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" (Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita)
78 News from the Island of Japan (Kathryn Bosi)
• VII. The Room of Experts
Introduction (Jessie Ann Owens)
79 Will of John Dunstaple, Esquire (Lisa Colton)
80 Portrait Medal of Ludwig Senfl (Birgit Lodes)
81 Zampolo dalla Viola Petitions Duke Ercole I d’Este (Bonnie J. Blackburn)
82 A Diagram from the Mubarak Shah Commentary (Jeffrey Levenberg)
83 Cardinal Bessarion’s Manuscript of Ancient Greek Music Theory (Eleonora Rocconi)
84 The Analogy of the Nude (Antonio Cascelli)
85 The Music Book of Martin Crusius (Inga Mai Groote)
86 The World on a Crab’s Back (Katelijne Schiltz)
87 Juan del Encina’s "Gasajémonos de huzía" (Emilio Ros-Fábregas)
88 Josquin de Prez’s "Missa Philippus Rex Castilie" (Vincenzo Borghetti)
89 The Elite Singing Voice (Richard Wistreich)
• VIII. The Room of Revivals
Introduction (David Yearsley)
90 Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Martin Elste)
91 Dolmetsch’s Spinet (Jessica L. Wood)
92 Assassin’s Creed: Ezio Trilogy (Karen M. Cook)
93 "Christophorus Columbus: Paraísos Perdidos" (Donald Greig)
94 A Palestrina Contrafactum — Samantha Bassler 447
95 St Sepulchre Chapel, St Mary Magdalene, London (Ayla Lepine)
96 The Singing Fountain in Prague (Scott Lee Edwards)
97 Liebig Images of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" (Gundula Kreuzer)
98 Das Chorwerk (Pamela M. Potter)
99 "Ode to a Screw" (Vincenzo Borghetti)
100 Wax Figure of Anne Boleyn (Linda Phyllis Austern)
Notes on Contributors 477
Bibliography 487