Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond

Benjamin Brand received his PhD from Yale University, Connecticut and has taught music history at the University of North Texas since 2006. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Villa I Tatti (Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies) and the American Academy in Rome. David J. Rothenberg received his PhD from Yale University, Connecticut and is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, where he has taught since 2005. He is author of The Flower of Paradise: Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music (2011) and co-editor, with Robert R. Holzer, of the Oxford Anthology of Western Music, Volume One: The Earliest Notations to the Early Eighteenth Century (2013).

'This collection groups its fifteen essays into three themes reflecting its dedicatee Craig Wright's interests in sources, ceremonies, and symbolism. The editor's introductory chapter frames the volume, but also provides a useful literature review within these fields and of Craig Wright's distinctive contributions … The fifteen essays' thematic alignment is a testament to Craig Wright's breadth and vision, and the editors' syncretizing ingenuity.' Magnus Williamson, Renaissance Quarterly

• Introduction Benjamin Brand and David J. Rothenberg; 1. Music and liturgy in medieval Capua Thomas Forrest Kelly; 2. Theory meets practice: the model antiphon series Primum quaerite in Hucbald's Office In plateis and in other post-Carolingian chant Barbara Haggh-Huglo; 3. Singing from the pulpit: polyphonic improvisation and public ritual in medieval Tuscany Benjamin Brand; 4. Liturgy and politics in Renaissance Florence: the creation of the 1526 Office for St Zenobius Marica S. Tacconi; 5. Music and pageantry in the formation of Hispano-Christian identity: the Feast of St Hippolytus in sixteenth-century Mexico City Lorenza Candelaria; Part II. Archival and Source Studies: 6. The sources and the sanctorale: dating by the decade in thirteenth-century Paris Rebecca A. Baltzer; 7. Vernacular contexts for the monophonic motet: notes from a new source Mark Everist; 8. Tradition and innovation in fourteenth-century instrumental music: evidence from archival and musical sources Keith Polk; 9. Melchior or Marchion de Civilibus, prepositus brixiensis: new documents Margaret Bent; 10. Papal musicians at Cambrai in the early fifteenth century Alejandro Enrique Planchart; 11. Sixtus IV, the Franciscans, and the beginning of music printing in fifteenth-century Rome Jane A. Bernstein; Part III. Symbolism: 12. The gate that carries Christ: wordplay and liturgical imagery in a motet from c.1300 David J. Rothenberg; 13. A musical lesson for a king from the Roman de Fauvel Anne Walters Robertson; 14. Preaching to the choir? Obrecht's Motet for the Dedication of the Church M. Jennifer Bloxam; 15. The Madonna triptych: a mystical reading of three early music videos Andrew Tomasello.