Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505: The Creation of a Musical Center in the Fifteenth Century

by Lewis Lockwood

Overview

Based on extensive documentary and archival research, Music in Renaissance Ferrara is a documentary history of music for one of the most important city-states of the Italian Renaissance. Lockwood shows how patrons and musicians created a musical center over the course of the fifteenth-century, tracing the growth of music and musical life in rich detail. It also sheds new light on the careers of such important composers as Dufay, Martini, Obrecht, and Josquin Desprez. This paperback edition features a new preface that re-introduces the book and reflects on its contribution to our modern knowledge of music in the culture of the Italian Renaissance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199703005
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/04/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Lewis Lockwood is the Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music at Harvard University (Emeritus). He is the 2008 recipient of the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America for his work in Renaissance Studies.

Table of Contents

PrefaceList of IllustrationsList of TablesList of Music ExamplesArchival ReferencesMusic ManuscriptsIntroductionPART ONE: MUSIC AT FERRARA IN THE EARLY FIFTEENTH CENTURY1. Ferrara and the Trecento Background2. Ferrara under Niccol‘o III d'Este (1393-1429)Music in the Earlier Years of Niccolò III (1400-29), Music at the Cathedral: Bartolomeo da Bologna (1405-27)THE PERIOD OF LEONELLO D'ESTE (1429-50)3. Ferrara in the 1430s, The Council of Ferrara (1438)4. Feragut and Dufay5. Leonello's Rule, 1441-50; the Court Chapel6. Singers and Repertoires, The Manuscript Mod B7. Secular Music, Groups of Secular Musicians, Court Dance under Leonello8. Cathedral Music, Ugolino di Orvieto: Scholastic and Humanistic Views of Music, BORSO D'ESTE AND FERRARESE COURT CULTURE (1450-71)9. Borso as Ruler, Borso as Patron of Art and Literature; Music in the Frescoes of the Palazzo Schifanoia10. Pietrobono and the Improvisatory Tradition, Court Musicians under Borso11. A Secular Manuscript of the Borso Period: the Porto MS and Rinaldo Maria d'EstePART TWO: MUSIC AT FERRARA UNDER ERCOLE I D'ESTE (1471-1505)12. Ercole as Private and Public Figure 13. Recruitment of Musicians in the 1470s14. Organization and Functions of the Court Musicians, The Cappella di Cantori, The Instrumentalists, Music in Daily Life15. Size and Structure of Ercole's Cappella di Cantori, National Groups, Rank and Hierarchy in the Chapel16. Some Representative Singers of Ercole's Chapel, Johannes Brebis, Magister Nicolò d'Olanda, Cornelio di Lorenzo of Antwer, Jachetto de Marvilla, Johannes Martini17. Social and Economic Structure of the Musicians, Inducements to Singers, Salaries and Status18. Benefices, Benefices and the Strategy of Recruitment: the Case of don Philippo de Primis19. The Last Years of Ercole's Patronage (1497-1505), Josquin Desprez at Ferrara (1503-4), Jacob Obrecht (1504-5)PART THREE: FERRARESE MUSICAL REPERTOIRES AND STYLES IN THE LATE FIFTEENTH CENTURY20. The Production of Music Manuscripts under Ercole I2122. The Principal Repertoires in Ercole's Earlier Years (1471-82)Masses by Martini and Other Composers23. Josquin's Missa 'Hercules Dux Ferrarie'24. The Psalms, Hymns, and Other Vespers Music by Martini and Brebis25. The Motet at Ferrara26. Secular Music at the Court: Chanson and Instrumental Music, The Casanatense Chansonnier, Martini's Secular Musicublic Festivals, Jousts, and Special Events, Music for the I EpilogueAPPENDICES:I. SourcesII. DocumentsIII. A Précis of Papal Letters to Duke Ercole I and Duke Alfonso I d'Este on Provisions for the Singers of the Ferrarese Court, 1487-1506IV. A Chronology of the Correspondence between Duke Ercole I d'Este and Ferrarese Ambassadors at Rome and elsewhere, on BeneficesV. A Chronological List of Musicians Active at Ferrara, 1377-1505 BibliographyBibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

"Lockwood's Music in Renaissance Ferrara is one of the foundational studies of music as a part of courtly culture in the Renaissance—and of the surprisingly powerful role of the Este court in Ferrara in the development of musical style and institutions in the period."-Prof. Anthony Newcomb, University of California, Berkeley

"Lewis Lockwood's magisterial study of music in 15th-century Ferrara was hailed as a classic as soon as it appeared. The winner of two best-book-of-the-year prizes (from both musicological and historical societies), it was in 1984 a pathbreaking historical study, a book on the music of a city and its ducal court. In the intervening generation, as studies of music and culture in Renaissance Italy have proliferated, the luster of Lockwood's achievement has only grown. Astonishing for the wealth of archival data and for Lockwood's characteristic interpretive virtuosity,Music in Renaissance Ferrara remains a stellar example of how to interweave history and the history of music."-Christopher Reynolds, Professor of Music, University of California, Davis

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