| Contents |
Townscape, soundscape -- The collegiate church of St Donatian. A sketch of the early history ; Internal organisation ; Choirbooks and the rise of polyphony ; Musicians among the clergy and connections with other chapels ; The choral foundation of 1421 ; Famous musicians ; The musical personnel ; Gilles Joye ; Endowments and discant books ; Organists and organs ; Special ceremonies and feasts ; The Habsburg era ; Jacob Obrecht -- Other churches. The collegiate church of Our Lady ; The parish church of St Saviour ; St James's ; St Giles's and St Walburga's; hospitals -- Convents and confraternities. A 'lost' culture ; Various mendicant houses ; The Carmelites and their foreign guests ; Confraternities in the Carmelite convent ; The Franciscans and the 'dry tree' -- The city and the court. The minstrels ; Civic and political functions ; Public entertainment ; Foreign and court minstrels ; Pageants, jousting and dancing ; The earliest public concerts ; 'Het Boeck' ; Conditions of life ; Musical instruction and instruments ; The music of the court in Bruges -- The musical repertory. Mass and motet in the fourteenth century ; Secular song and the contribution of Thomas Fabri ; Chansonniers and tenor parts ; Sacred music under English influence ; The Lucca choirbook ; Music from Bruges in late fifteenth-century sources ; Obrecht's works for Bruges -- Appendix A: musicians employed in churches of Bruges until c. 1510 -- Appendix B: Catalogue of the Lucca choirbook. |
| Abstract |
Although the musical achievements of the Franco-Flemish school have attracted many writers, this book is the first to show how the artists and composers of Bruges worked side by side to shape their acoustic and visual environment and to express their fellow citizens' spiritual needs in art. By combining the methods of modern musicology and those of local historiography, Strohm vividly recreates the music of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Flanders in its socio-economic context, from the pageants and minstrelsy of the court to popular entertainments and the earliest public concerts. |
| General note | "Catalogue of the Lucca choirbook": pages 192-197. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262) and index. |
| LCCN | 83023966 |
| ISBN | 0193163276 : |
