Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction, David J. Smith; Part 1 Peter Philips: The interconnection of religious, social and musical networks: creating a context for the keyboard music of Peter Philips and its dissemination, David J. Smith. Part 2 Confraternity and Academy: The Liber fratrum cruciferorum Leodiensium and the dissemination of organ repertoire in the Netherlands during the 17th century, Emilie Corswarem; The pious Mr Philips and his few-voiced motets at Isabella's Confraternity of Our Lady, Anne E. Lyman; The ear of the lynx: the musical legacy of the Accademia dei Lincei, Naomi J. Barker. Part 3 Keyboard Analysis: Politics, religion, style and the Passamezzo Galliards of Byrd and Philips: a discussion of networks involving Byrd and his disciples, Rachelle Taylor and Frauke Jurgensen; Musical rhetoric lost in translation: national, religious and linguistic networks and the determination of title in Sweelinck's Organ Variations on Psalm 36, Julia Dokter. Part 4 Keyboard Style and Attribution: What is a composer? Problems of attribution in keyboard music from the circle of Philips and Sweelinck, David Schulenberg; Orlando Gibbons's keyboard music: the continental perspective, Pieter Dirksen; A pattern recognition approach to the attribution of early 17th-century keyboard compositions using features of diminutions, Peter van Kranenburg and Johan Zoutendijk. Part 5 Consort: 'Full of art, and profundity': the five-part consort pavan as a medium for sophisticated musical expression and compositional cross-reference in late Renaissance England, John Bryan; Networking, patronage and professionalism in the early history of violin playing: the case of William Brade (c.1560-1630), Arne Spohr. Part 6 Time and Place: Practice and dissemination of music in the Catholic network as suggested by the music collection of Edward Paston (1550-1630) and other contemporary sources, Hector Sequera; Social networking in 17th-century Italy: the 'harmonious letters' of a monk-musician, Abigail Ballantyne; Bibliography; Index.