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Taylor & Francis Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries 2013 Edition by David J. Smith, Rachelle Taylor
Peter Philips (c.1560-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting musical, social, religious and political networks linking him with some of the key international players in these spheres. Despite the undeniable quality of his music, Philips does not fit easily into an overarching, progressive view of music history in which developments taking place in centres judged by historians to be of importance are given precedence over developments elsewhere, which are dismissed as peripheral. These principal loci of musical development are given prominence over secondary ones because of their perceived significance in terms of later music. However, a consideration of the networks in which Philips was involved suggests that he was anything but at the periphery of the musical, cultural, religious and political life of his day. In this book, Philips's life and music serve as a touchstone for a discussion of various kinds of network in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The study of networks enriches our appreciation and understanding of musicians and the context in which they worked. The wider implication of this approach is a constructive challenge to orthodox historiographies of Western art music in the Early Modern Period. Table of contents :- Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction, David J. Smith; The interconnection of religious, social and musical networks: creating a context for the keyboard music of Peter Philips and its dissemination, David J. Smith; 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 Lyman; The ear of the lynx: the musical legacy of the Accademia dei Lincei, Naomi J. Barker; 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 R. Dokter; 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; '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; 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.