| Contents |
Ingrid Karsten Brainard: a tribute -- The creation of the repertory. The Codex Calixtinus and the French connection: the Office for St. James in Northern France / Vincent Corrigan -- The celebration of Candlemas in medieval Rome / Joseph Dyer -- "Laureata plebs fidelis": a Victorine sequence from the Feast of Corpus Christi in thirteenth-century Liege / Barbara R. Walters -- A newly recognized polyphonic Christmas gospel, Liber generationis: and another look at the polyphony in the manuscript Assisi, Biblioteca del Sacro convento, MS 695 / Julia W. Shinnick -- Prope est ruina: the transformation of a Medieval tenor / Alice V. Clark -- Ideological clashes in a cinquecento edition of plainchant / Richard J. Agee -- Interpreting the repertory. Music on the run in the Italian Novelle: plagues, devotional movements, and intimate gatherings away from home / Cathy Ann Elias -- Dancing in the street: fourteenth-century representations of music and justice / Eleonora M. Beck -- Aprè̀s vos fais: Machaut reception as seen through the Chantilly Codex (F-CH 564) / Elizabeth Randell Upton -- Reading (into?) Renaissance dance: Misura in the service of dramaturgy / Nona Monahin -- Dance and identity in fifteenth-century Europe / Jennifer Nevile -- Reevaluating the repertory. Acoustics, liturgy, and architecture in Medieval English cathedrals / William Peter Mahrt -- "Haec est nimis": a trope-transcription puzzle / Greta-Mary Hair -- Compositional method and inspirational guesswork: reconstructing the Latin motets of Martin Peerson (ca. 1572-1651) / Richard Rastall -- Dance and historiography: Le Balet Comique de la Royne, an Italian perspective / Barbara Sparti -- Mutanze, divisions, and Diferencias: variation form in late Renaissance dance / G. Yvonne Kendall. |
| Abstract |
Just as Brainard's interests and scholarship crossed several disciplines, the essays collected here acknowledge her range of influence and her inclusive spirit. Performative dance and dance history, social history, and musicological issues are all explored, touching on topics from the later Renaissance back through the Carolingian Empire. The interconnected themes are presented in three sections: first creating the repertory, by looking at the contexts of musical creation; then interpreting it, through the performance, meaning, and social identity of dances; and finally discussing potential reevaluations, based on the location of musical performances, aspects of transcription difficulties and compositional techniques, dance-historical scrutiny, and a comparison of a shared genre in music and dance. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011034853 |
| ISBN | 9781580441667 (clothbound ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1580441661 (clothbound ; alk. paper) |
| Standard identifier# |
40021107766 |
