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Michael Alan Anderson explores the political implications of music devoted to St Anne in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
List of contents
1. Mary's mother: devotion, politics, and music; 2. Heritage and progeny in an office for St Anne; 3. Of widowhood and maternity: La Rue's Missa de Sancta Anna; 4. Devotion and letters: St Anne in pre-Reformation Wittenberg; 5. A 'divine favor' at the French court: in pursuit of a motet for St Anne; 6. Devotion without borders: the afterlife of Celeste beneficium; 7. The French royal trinity, biblical humanism and chanted Mass propers for St Anne; Postlude; Appendix A; Appendix B.
About the author
Michael Alan Anderson has taught at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York since 2008. In 2012, he won the Noah Greenberg Award, given by the American Musicological Society for outstanding contributions to historical performing practices. In that same year, he received the Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for an article published in the journal Early Music History. Since 2008, he has been the Artistic Director of the professional early music ensemble Schola Antiqua of Chicago, which he co-founded in 2000. Their albums include previously unrecorded music by Leonin, Du Fay, La Rue, Guerrero, and Lassus.
Summary
Devotion to St Anne, the apocryphal mother of the Virgin Mary, reached its height in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Michael Alan Anderson highlights the political implications of the music that honoured Anne and explores its connections to some of the most prominent court cultures of western Europe.
