Music and Musicians At the Collegiate Church of St Omer - Crucible of Song, 1350-1550

Offers unparalleled insight into the function of music in worship, ritual and society in late medieval Europe.

List of contents

Dedication; Acknowledgements; List of plates; Note on editorial policy, currency and dates; Prologue: Saint-omer and the growth of urban power; 1. The maîtrise; 2. Identities and career patterns; 3. Masters and master singers; 4. The organs; 5. The bells; 6. Loose canons? Music and the craft of ecclesiastical power; Epilogue. A cloistered art: connoisseurship and private music-making; Appendix. Documents pertaining to the suppression of benefices for the upkeep of the master and choirboys; Bibliography.

About the author

Andrew Kirkman is the Peyton and Barber Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham. He has published widely on English and Continental Music of the fifteenth century, with Cambridge and Oxford University Presses and in the top journals in the field. He is also conductor of the award-winning Binchois Consort, with which he has recorded twelve CDs on the Hyperion label.

Product details

• Authors: Kirkman Andrew Kirkman, Andrew Kirkman, Andrew (University of Birmingham) Kirkman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781108839723
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83972-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Choral, Renaissance style, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Medieval style, Choral Music, Western "classical" music