Institutions and Patronage in Renaissance Music

Thomas Schmidt-Beste is Professor of Music and Head of School, Bangor University, UK

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Systems of Institutional and Individual Patronage: Anmerkungen zur 'Benefizialkarriere' des Johannes Ockeghem, Adalbert Roth; The education of choristers in England during the 16th century, Jane Flynn; Renaissance women as patrons of the music: the North-Italian courts, William F. Prizer; Patronage and innovation in instrumental music in the 15th century, Keith Polk. Part II Courts and Chapels: Composers at church and court in 15th-century Brussels, Barbara Haggh; The internationalization of the Italian papal chapels in the early quattrocento, John Nádas; La musica, la cappelle e il ceremoniale alla corte aragonese di Napoli, Gianluca d'Agostino; Ritual and regulations: the organization of the Castilian royal chapel during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Tess Knighton; Der 'tägliche Dienst' der Münchner Hofkapelle im 16. Jahrhundert, Franz Körndle; Music and patronage at the court of Rudolf II, Robert Lindell. Part III Churches, Orders, Guilds, Confraternities: Change and continuity in the Reformation period: church music in north German towns, 1500-1600, Joachim Kremer; Le pratiche della musica nelle chiese e nelle confraternite di Roma nel cinquecento, Noel O'Regan; Far una bella procession: music and ceremony at the Venetian scuole grandi, Jonathan E. Glixon. Part IV Composers: Protector, imo versus pater: Francesco Zabarella's patronage of Johannes Ciconia, Anne Hallmark; After Burgundy: rethinking Binchois's years in Soignies, Sean Gallagher; Zur sozialen Stellung europäischer Renaissance-Musiker am Bespiel Orlando di Lassos, Horst Leuchtmann. Part V Spaces: Spaces for court music, José Manuel Barbeito; Magnificence as civic image: music and ceremonial space in early modern Venice, Iain Fenlon; Name index.