Fellow of King's College Cambridge Lecturer in Music Iain Fenlon

Iain Fenlon

This volume consists of original papers first read at King's College, Cambridge, in 1979 at an international conference on medieval and Renaissance music. The contributors are distinguished in a wide variety of musicological interests but all are concerned in one way or another with pursuing the most urgent and promising directions for research in early music history. The result, far from being merely a further collection of essays applying well-tried approaches to familiar material, constantly seeks to expand the scope of musicology itself, and many of the contributions arc inter-disciplinary in method. The four main topics of the conference were carefully chosen, with some editorial control exercised for each session. This is reflected in four sections of closely related papers in the book. Two of these are concerned with the patronage of music: by the Church in fifteenth-century England, Italy and France, and in a broader context in Italy from 1450 to 1550. A group of essays on sixteenth-century instrumental music separates these, and the book concludes with five papers on theories of filiation as applied to music sources from the tenth to the sixteenth century.

Patronage, Sources and Texts

Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Margot Elsbeth Fassler

Professor Margot Fassler

Professor of Music Thomas Forrest Kelly

John Stevens, MD

This is the first study of how a particular genre of liturgical texts and music, the Victorine sequences, were first written in great numbers during the twelfth-century.

Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris

Gothic Song

James Haar

This 1988 book examines the genesis and dissemination of the Italian madrigal in its formative stages. Iain Fenlon and James Haar have analysed this vast repertoire as it is found in manuscript and print offer information concerning the date and provenance of many fundamental sources together with a view of the subject which differs radically from previous treatments. Their study is divided into two parts. The first covers the rise and early cultivation of the madrigal, chiefly in Florence and Rome. The second contains a detailed descriptive inventory of all known manuscripts and printed editions, finishing with lists of contents and concordances in each case. This important study will serve those with an interest in Renaissance music and the changing cultural ambience of early sixteenth-century Florence and Rome.

Sources and Interpretation

The Italian Madrigal in the Early Sixteenth Century

Tim Carter

Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter

Nigel Fortune

The seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were an exciting time in Italian music, and this collection of essays by leading European, British, and American musicologists seeks to consolidate the recent growth of interest in the field, with discussions of leading composers (including Monteverdi, Vivaldi, and Handel), theatrical and secular vocal music, and iconography.

Studies in Italian Opera, Song, and Dance, 1580-1740

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Fellow of King's College Cambridge Lecturer in Music Iain Fenlon

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