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Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court

Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court

by Honey Meconi
Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court
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ISBN-10:
0198165544
ISBN-13:
9780198165545
Pub. Date:
05/28/2003
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-10:
0198165544
ISBN-13:
9780198165545
Pub. Date:
05/28/2003
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court

Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court

by Honey Meconi

Overview

For twenty-four or more years composer Pierre de la Rue (d. 1518) provided music for one of the leading musical institutions of his day, the grande chapelle of the Habsburg-Burgundian court. Serving successive rulers Maximilian I, Philip the Fair, Juana of Castile, Marguerite of Austria, and the future Charles V, La Rue surpassed a dozen composer colleagues in his creation of polyphony to meet the needs of the court and its extravagant liturgy. This study, the first ever in English, traces La Rue's life and career, explores aspects of his compositional output, and recounts the reawakening of modern scholarship to his unique contributions.

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ISBN-13: 9780198165545
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 05/28/2003
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 6.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Honey Meconi is Director of Medieval Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of the University of Pensylvania and Music Fellow of Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy. Dr Meconi's shorter writings have been published widely including with the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Journal of Musicology, Early Music, Journal of the American Musicological Society, and numerous others. She is currently editing Early Musical Borrowing for Garland in their series "Criticism and Analysis of Early Music".

Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Musical Examples
List of Abbreviations
A Note on Names
I. Biography
A. Who Was Pierre de la Rue?
B. Early Years
C. Peter vander Straten
D. The Habsburg-Burgundian Chapel under Maximilian, Philip, and Juana: 1492?-1508
E. The Chapel Under Marguerite and Charles: 1508-1516
F. Retirement: 1516-1518
II. The Grande chapelle and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court
A. Structure and Duties of the Chapel
B. La Rue's Colleagues
C. Music Available at the Court
D. La Rue's Significance at Court
III. Aspects of Sacred Music
A. Observations on the Structure and Chronology of La Rue's Masses
B. Examples of Borrowing in La Rue's Sacred Music
C. Liturgical Functions of La Rue's Sacred Music
IV. Aspects of Secular Music
A. Overview
B. Two Examples
C. Problems of Authenticity
D. Observations
V. Patterns of Influence
A. Ockeghem and Josquin
B. Dissemination of Music and the Josquin Generations
C. Literary and Theoretical Citations
D. Growth of a Reputation
E. Who is Pierre de la Rue?
Appendix A: Chronology of Events
Appendix B: Chronology of Sources
Appendix C: Literary and Theoretical Citations
Appendix D: Catalogue of Works
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts and Printed Sources
Index of Compositions by or attributed to La Rue
General Index

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