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The Cyclic Mass - James Cook

The Cyclic Mass

Anglo-Continental Exchange in the Fifteenth Century

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Buch | Softcover
148 Seiten
2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-66160-1 (ISBN)
CHF 72,90 inkl. MwSt
To understand English music in the fifteenth century is to understand it within the two-way cultural exchange with the continent, and the genre of the Mass cycle is very much at the forefront of this. This book argues that a number of the works that have induced the most scholarly debate are best seen through the lens of intensive and long-term
England in the fifteenth century was the cradle of much that would have a profound impact on European music for the next several hundred years. Perhaps the greatest such development was the cyclic cantus firmus Mass, and scholarly attention has therefore often been drawn to identifying potentially English examples within the many anonymous Mass cycles that survive in continental sources. Nonetheless, to understand English music in this period is to understand it within a changing nexus of two-way cultural exchange with the continent, and the genre of the Mass cycle is very much at the forefront of this. Indeed, the question of ‘what is English’ cannot truly be answered without also answering the question of ‘what is continental’. This book seeks, initially, to answer both of these questions. Perhaps more importantly, it argues that a number of the works that have induced the most scholarly debate are best seen through the lens of intensive and long-term cultural exchange and that the great binary divide of provenance can, in many cases, productively be broken down. A great many of these works, though often written on the continent, can, it seems, only be understood in relation to English practice – a practice which has had, and will continue to have, major importance in the ongoing history of European Art Music.

James Cook is Lecturer in Early Music at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He works mainly on early music and is especially interested in music of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. He is particularly interested in the ways in which musical cultures in this period interact and how expatriate groups (merchants, clergy, and nobility) imported and used music. He is also interested in the representation of early music on stage and screen, be that the use of ‘real’ early music in multimedia productions, the imaginative re-scoring of historical dramas, or even the popular medievalism of the fantasy genre.

1. The Mass cycle, insularity, and cultural exchange; 2. The rise of the Mass cycle; 3. Style and structure in the mature English Mass cycle; 4. Mass cycles between English and continental practice; 5. The Du cuer je souspier Mass; Conclusions and new directions: the strange disappearance of English musuc

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Royal Musical Association Monographs
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 300 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10 0-367-66160-8 / 0367661608
ISBN-13 978-0-367-66160-1 / 9780367661601
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