Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Andrew H. Weaver (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America. He has published widely on music at the seventeenth-century Habsburg courts, including Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (Ashgate, 2012).

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of TablesList of Music ExamplesManuscript Sigla and Other AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAndrew H. Weaver1 Politics, Religion, and Music at the Early Modern Habsburg Courts: Some ContextPaula Sutter Fichtner with Andrew H. WeaverPart 1: Institutional Contexts2 The Court Chapels of the Habsburg-Burgundian Line: From Emperor Maximilian I to Emperor Charles VHoney Meconi3 The Court Chapels of the Spanish Line: From King Philip II to King Charles IIPablo L. Rodríguez4 The Court Chapels of the Austrian Line (I): From Emperor Ferdinand I to Emperor MatthiasJonas Pfohl5 The Court Chapels of the Austrian Line (II): From Archduke Charles II to Emperor Leopold ILawrence Bennett, Steven Saunders, and Andrew H. Weaver6 The Court Chapels of the Tyrolean Line: From Archduke Ferdinand II to Archduke Ferdinand CharlesSara PecknoldPart 2: Cultural Contexts7 Italian Musical Dramatic Genres at the Courts of the Austrian HabsburgsHerbert Seifert8 Festivity and Spectacle at the Spanish Royal CourtLouise K. Stein9 Contexts for and Functions of Instrumental Music in Central EuropeCharles E. Brewer10 Manuscript Culture: The Habsburg-Burgundian Scriptorium and Some SuccessorsHoney Meconi11 Print Culture: Printed Music and Other Media in the Service of the HabsburgsAndrew H. Weaver12 Colonialism and Music in Habsburg New SpainDrew Edward DaviesPart 3: International Contexts13 Die Teutsche Nation: Musical Links between the Habsburg Courts and the German States of the EmpireAlexander J. Fisher14 Milan: Imperial City and ‘Theatre of the World’Christine Getz15 Musical Connections between the Austrian Habsburgs and Venice in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesBeth L. Glixon, Jeffrey Kurtzman, and Steven Saunders16 A Tale of Two entrate:Processions, Politics, and Patronage for the Habsburgs in Sixteenth – and Seventeenth-Century RomeVirginia Christy LamotheIndex