Cyclic Mass - Anglo-Continental Exchange in the Fifteenth Century

List of contents

1. The Mass cycle, insularity, and cultural exchange; 2. The rise of the Mass cycle; 3. Style and structure in the mature English Mass cycle; 4. Mass cycles between English and continental practice; 5. The Du cuer je souspier Mass; Conclusions and new directions: the strange disappearance of English musuc

About the author

James Cook is Lecturer in Early Music at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He works mainly on early music and is especially interested in music of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. He is particularly interested in the ways in which musical cultures in this period interact and how expatriate groups (merchants, clergy, and nobility) imported and used music. He is also interested in the representation of early music on stage and screen, be that the use of ‘real’ early music in multimedia productions, the imaginative re-scoring of historical dramas, or even the popular medievalism of the fantasy genre.

Summary

To understand English music in the fifteenth century is to understand it within the two-way cultural exchange with the continent, and the genre of the Mass cycle is very much at the forefront of this. This book argues that a number of the works that have induced the most scholarly debate are best seen through the lens of intensive and long-term

Product details

• Authors: James Cook, James (Moved to Edinburgh University) Cook, Cook James
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367661601
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66160-1
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Royal Musical Association Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Europe, MUSIC / General, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Sacred and religious music, Sacred & Religious Music