Music and musicians in Renaissance cities and towns

Abstract

1. Introduction: urban history, musicology and cities and towns in Renaissance Europe Fiona Kisby 2. Music and urban culture in Austria - comparing profiles Reinhard Strohm 3. Magnificence as civic image: music and ceremonial space in Early Modern Venice Iain Fenlon 4. Secular music in the Burgh of Haddington, 1530-1640 John J. McGavin 5. Civic subsidy and musicians in Southern France during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: a comparison of Montpellier, Toulouse and Avignon Gretchen Peters 6. Masses, Morris and metrical psalms: music in the English parish, c. 1400-1600 Beat Kumin 7. The role of religious guilds in the cultivation of ritual polyphony in England: the case of Louth, 1450-1550 Magnus Williamson 8. Academic colleges in the Oxford community, 1400-1550 Beth Anne Lee-De Amici 9. Music and court in Charles V's Valladolid, 1517-1539 Soterrana Aguirre Rincon 10. Change and continuity in the Reformation period: church music in North German Towns, 1500-1600 Joachim Kremer 11. Cathedral music, city and state: music in Reformation and political change at Christ Church cathedral, Dublin Barra Boydell 12. Singers and scribes in the secular churches of Brussels Barbara Haggh 13. Music and moonlighting: the cathedral choirmen of Early Modern England, 1558-1649 James Saunders 14. Urban musical life in the European colonies: examples from Spanish America, 1530-1650 Egberto Bermudez Index.