The Museum of Renaissance Music. A History in 100 Exhibits

Vincenzo Borghetti, Tim Shephard (eds). Pages: 532 p. Illustrations:250 col., 6 musical examples. Language(s):English. Brepols, Publication Year:2023. Paperback - SUMMARY This book collates 100 exhibits with accompanying essays as an imaginary museum dedicated to the musical cultures of Renaissance Europe, at home and in its global horizons. It is a history through artefacts—materials, tools, instruments, art objects, images, texts, and spaces—and their witness to the priorities and activities of people in the past as they addressed their world through music. The result is a history by collage, revealing overlapping musical practices and meanings—not only those of the elite, but reflecting the everyday cacophony of a diverse culture and its musics. Through the lens of its exhibits, this museum surveys music’s central role in culture and lived experience in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe, offering interest and insights well beyond the strictly musicological field. TABLE OF CONTENTS • I. The Room of Devotions Introduction (Matthew Laube) 1 Silence (Barbara Baert) 2 Virgin and Child with Angels (M. Jennifer Bloxam) 3 Madonna of Humility (Beth Williamson) 4 Virgin Annunciate (Marina Nordera) 5 The Prato "Haggadah" (Eleazar Gutwirth) 6 The Musicians of the Holy Church, Exempt from Tax (Geoffrey Baker) 7 A Devotional Song from Iceland (Árni Heimir Ingólfsson) 8 Alabaster Altarpiece (James Cook, Andrew Kirkman, Zuleika Murat, and Philip Weller) 9 The Mass of St Gregory (Bernadette Nelson) Psalters 10 Bernardino de Sahagún’s "Psalmodia christiana" (Lorenzo Candelaria) 11 The "Սաղմոսարան" of Abgar Dpir Tokhatetsi (Ortensia Giovannini) 12 A Printed Hymnal by Jacobus Finno (Sanna Raninen) 13 "The Whole Booke of Psalmes" (Jonathan Willis) • II. The Room of Domestic Objects Introduction (Paul Schleuse) 14 Commonplace Book (Kate van Orden) 15 Knife (Flora Dennis) 16 Playing Cards (Katelijne Schiltz) 17 Cabinet of Curiosities (Franz Körndle) 18 Table (Katie Bank) 19 Statue (Laura Moretti) 20 Valance (Katherine Butler) 21 Painting (Camilla Cavicchi) 22 Fan (Flora Dennis) 23 Tapestry (Carla Zecher) Sensualities 24 Venus (Tim Shephard) 25 Sirens (Eugenio Refini) 26 Death and the Maiden (Katherine Butler) 27 Erotokritos Sings a Love Song to Aretousa (Alexandros Maria Hatzikiriakos) • III. The Room of Books Introduction (Elisabeth Giselbrecht) 28 Chansonnier of Margaret of Austria (Vincenzo Borghetti) 29 The Constance Gradual (Marianne C.E. Gillion) 30 The Bible of Borso d’Este (Serenella Sessini) 31 The Jistebnice Cantionale (Lenka Hlávková) 32 The Saxilby Fragment (Lisa Colton and James Cook) 33 "Le Jardin de Plaisance et Fleur de Rhétorique" (Jane H. M. Taylor) 34 "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili" (Massimo Privitera) 35 Embroidered Partbooks (Birgit Lodes) 36 "Grande Musicque" Typeface (Louisa Hunter-Bradley) 37 Coat of Arms of Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg (Elisabeth Giselbrecht) 38 The Eton Choirbook (Magnus Williamson) 39 "Liber Quindecim Missarum" (Paweł Gancarczyk) 40 "Les simulachres & historiées faces de la mort" (Katelijne Schiltz) Imagined Spaces 41 The Musical Staff (Jane Alden) 42 Deduit’s Garden (Sylvia Huot) 43 Arcadia (Giuseppe Gerbino) 44 Heaven (Laura Ștefănescu) • IV. The Room of Instruments Introduction (Emanuela Vai) 45 Lady Playing the Vihuela da Mano (David R. M. Irving) 46 Double Virginals (Moritz Kelber) 47 Horn from Allgäu (Martin Kirnbauer) 48 Inventory after the Death of Madame Montcuyt (Emily Peppers) 49 Girl Playing the Virginals (Laura S. Ventura Nieto) 50 Vihuela (John Griffiths) 51 Bagpipes (John J. Thompson) 52 Kös (Kate van Orden) • V. The Room of Sacred Spaces Introduction (David Fiala) 53 The Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, Florence (Giovanni Zanovello) 54 Hauptkirche Beatae Mariae Virginis, Wolfenbüttel (Inga Mai Groote) 55 A Sow Playing the Organ (Mattias Lundberg) 56 Ceiling with the Muses and Apollo (Tim Shephard) 57 St Ka.…