Listening to Confraternities

Tess Knighton, Ph.D. (1984, University of Cambridge) is an ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has published widely on the music and culture of the Iberian Peninsula, including the Brill Companion to Music at the Time of the Catholic Monarchs (2017).

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures, Music Examples and TablesNote on the EditorNotes on the Contributors1 Introduction: Sounds of Body and Spirit – Sense, Space, and Motion in ConfraternitiesNicholas TerpstraPart 1: The Participation of Confraternities in Urban Ceremonial2 The ‘Sensoryscape’ of the Good Friday Procession in Early Modern Venetian BergamoEmanuela Vai3 Musical Interactions at the Confraternity of Our Lady of the Rosary in Antwerp in the Seventeenth CenturyAna López Suero4 Sound and Confraternal Piety in Early Modern LeuvenHenry Drummond5 Music and Students in the Academy and Confraternity of St. Thomas Aquinas in Barcelona (1588)Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita6 The Sonic and Ceremonial Contribution of the Confraternity of Sant Jordi and the Centenar de la Ploma to Celebratory Processions in ValenciaFerran Escrivà-LlorcaPart 2: Devotional Practice and Religious Reform7 Corporations or Confraternities? Strategies Adopted by Artisan Groups in Response to Pressures Arising from the Catholic ReformationNoel O’Regan8 Confraternities and Music on the Eve of the Reformation: Early-Tudor BostonMagnus Williamson9 Who was Listening to Oratorio? Lay Confraternities and Patrician Music in Early Modern ItalyXavier Torres10 Mustering Troops and Teaching Counterpoint: The Musical Incursions of a Central European Redemption ConfraternityErika Supria Honisch11 Confraternities, Congregations and Aural Culture in Counter-Reformation GermanyAlexander FisherPart 3: Confraternities as Acoustic Communities12 Music and Noise: The Sounds of a Youth Confraternity in Renaissance FlorenceKonrad Eisenbichler13 ‘In parole’ and ‘in canto’: The Songs and Prayers of the Disciplinati in Early Modern MilanDaniele V. Filippi14 Performing Poetry at Rouen’s Puy of the Immaculate ConceptionDylan Reid15 Black Dancers and Musicians Performing Afro-Christian Identity in Early Modern SourcesElisa Lessa16 Devotional Collective Singing and the Construction of Christian Indigenous Communities: The Hospital Confraternities of the Concepción in Colonial MichoacánAntonio Ruiz CaballeroPart 4: Mapping the Contribution of Confraternities to the Urban Soundscape17 Digital Cartography of the Confraternities of Granada and Their Impact on the Early Modern Urban SoundworldJuan Ruiz Jiménez18 Mapping Post-Tridentine Confraternities and Processions in Sixteenth-Century TarragonaSergi González González19 Burying the Bones: Mapping the Sounds and Spaces of the Confraternity of the Verge Maria dels Desamparats in Early Modern BarcelonaTess KnightonIndex NominumIndex Locorum