Qui musicam in se habet : studies in honor of Alejandro Enrique Planchart

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ML55 .P625 2015
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Summary

The dizzying erudition of Alejandro Enrique Planchart is reflected and celebrated in this collection of thirty-six essays offered to him by an international coterie of scholars. Mirroring the dedicatee's broad interests, the contributions range from the sixth century to the twenty-first, encompassing Europe, Southeast Asia, and North America and exploring music and the people who wrote and performed it. Chant, its transmission, and reform--areas where Planchart's work has been foundational--are treated in essays by Angelo Rusconi, Luisa Nardini, James Vincent Maiello, Deborah Kauffman, and Rebecca G. Marchand, while James Grier, Thomas Forrest Kelly, Michel Huglo, Barbara Haggh-Huglo, and William F. Prizer explore musical production linked to the cults of saints and confraternities. Renaissance polyphony--another field in which Planchart has been a pioneer--is explored from a range of angles, with Reinhard Strohm, Joshua Rifkin, and Alison Sanders McFarland investigating problems of attribution and the authority of composers. Evan A. MacCarthy, Margaret Bent, Jane Alden, David Fiala, Richard Sherr, and William John Summers afford insight into the the lives of singers, while Alexander Blachly, Agostino Ziino, Robert Nosow, and Jaap van Benthem elucidate the at times promiscuous lives of songs. Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Carolann Buff, and Michael K. Phelps provide generic and ceremonial contexts for the motets of Guillaume Du Fay and his contemporaries, and Kristine K. Forney, Alicia M. Doyle, David Fallows, Sean Gallagher, and Honey Meconi focus on the material traces of liturgical polyphony, songbooks, and motets. Rob C. Wegman, Emily Zazulia, and Bonnie J. Blackburn lend a personal and social frame to the reading of music theory, and Susan Rankin, Jesse Rodin, and Jonathan D. Bellman provide glimpses of the vitality and virtuosity that have undergirded musical and music-theoretical production in the last millennium. Musical offerings by Fabrice Fitch and Richard L. Crocker frame the collection, to which a list of the Publications, Compositions, and Recordings of Magister Alejandro serves as a cauda. For more information, see http://www.corpusmusicae.com/misc/misc_cc009.htm

Contents

Fanfare : Agricola IXa : Je nay dueil / Fabrice Fitch -- The old Milanese hymn for Saint John the Baptist / Angelo Rusconi -- The Masses for the Holy Cross in some Italian manuscripts / Luisa Nardini -- Updating the alleluia at Pistoia / James Vincent Maiello -- Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers's Plain-chant musical motets in the repertory of the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr / Deborah Kauffman -- Missa eclectica : Lou Harrison and artistic ideologies after Vatican II / Rebecca G. Marchand -- The tropes for Saint Androchus at the abbeys of Saint Martial and Saint Martin in Limoges / James Grier -- The Office of Saint Donatus at Benevento / Thomas Forrest Kelly -- The great procession of St. Agatha in Florence and its antiphon Paganorum multitudo / Michel Huglo and Barbara Haggh-Huglo -- Popular piety in Renaissance Mantua : the lauda and flagellant confraternities / William F. Prizer -- New light on recruiting singers during the Papal schism : a letter from Pope Urban VI / Evan A. MacCarthy -- Orfeo : Dominus presbiter Orpheus de Padua / Margaret Bent -- Dialogus de Johanne Sohier alias Fede / Jane Alden and David Fiala -- Splendeurs et misáeres des suppliques : Breton singers in the Papal chapel in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries / Richard Sherr -- Forty-eight nights at the opera : La companâia lirica francesa in Manila in 1865 / William John Summers -- Apropos Ma fin est mon commencement and Tout par compas : two canonic rondeaux from Reims / Alexander Blachly -- Osservazioni sulla ballata polistrofica nella tradizione musicale del Trecento / Agostino Ziino -- The adventures of La belle se siet / Robert Nosow -- Affection unmasked? : about the misleading transmission of a "lost" song by Johannes Tourout / Jaap van Benthem -- The Latin poetry of Johannes Ciconia and "Guilhermus" / Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

The Italian job : Ciconia, Du Fay, and the musical aesthetics of the fifteenth-century Italian motet / Carolann Buff -- The pagan virgin? : Du Fay's Salve flos, a second consecration motet for Santa Maria del Fiore / Michael K. Phelps -- Maria unbound : reconstructing and contextualizing the Antwerp manuscript fragments M6 / Kristine K. Forney and Alicia M. Doyle -- The velvet songbooks / David Fallows -- Crispin van Stappen and Petrucci's Motetti a cinque / Sean Gallagher -- Alamire, Pierre de la Rue, and manuscript production in the time of Charles V / Honey Meconi -- The status of a Du Fay contrafactum / Reinhard Strohm -- Sound and structure : Le marteau sans ma itre and Mille regretz / Joshua Rifkin -- Josquin as authority in Morales's four-voice Missa de Beata Virgine / Alison Sanders McFarland -- The world according to Anonymous IV / Rob C. Wegman -- Whatever you do, don't sing D : on the notation of Obrecht's Missa L'homme armâe / Emily Zazulia -- "Notes secretly fitted together" : theorists on enigmatic canons : and on Josquin's Hercules Mass? / Bonnie J. Blackburn -- Organa dulcisona docto modulamine compta : rhetoric and musical composition in the Winchester organa / Susan Rankin -- Peaks, valleys, and form in Ockeghem's sacred music / Jesse Rodin -- Gershwin at the piano : performance practice methodology and its limits / Jonathan D. Bellman -- Six sets of tropes from Nevers / Richard L. Crocker.

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