The Singing of Laude and Musical Sensibilities in Early Seventeenth‐Century Confraternity Devotion: Part II*

Abstract

In Part I of this article, we gave an outline of the devotional and musical life in the confraternity of the Archangel Raphael emphasizing how the most recent developments in areas such as poetics and music theory were absorbed and brought into a synthesis both with the current musical practices and with the understanding of the religious ceremonies as they are manifested in the preserved ricordi of the confraternity. In Part II, a laude manuscript (arch. mus. II, 55) of unknown provenance that was introduced in Part I will be discussed with respect to its relevance to the musical, aesthetic and religious sensibilities of the Archangel Raphael confraternity in the seventeenth century.