Music 220, Seminar. UC Berkeley, Spring 2002

Constructing a new ritual context. Reform and music: 1450-1600

Mary Kay Duggan, Prof., Dept. of Music, UC Berkeley

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Week 1

Shifts in meaning and impact: ritual, liturgy, ceremony. Fifteenth-century reform and Catholic liturgy (standardization, regulation). The liturgical day. The liturgical year.

Grimes Beginnings in Ritual Studies. The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages. John Harper, Forms and Orders of Western Liturgy (1991). The first printed liturgical books

Week 2

The sequence: removal from the canon, persistence outside the canon.

The sequence in early printed missals, graduals, Lutheran chorales, polyphonic settings, Isaac's Coralis Constantini

Week 3

Emergence of new churches/liturgies

Lutheran liturgy and music, Book of Common Prayer

Week 4

Ritual and aristocracy

Busnoys and liturgy.

"Music and Ritual at Charles the Bold's Court: The Function of Liturgical Music by Busnoys" (Brown, 1999). Prizer: "Music and Ceremonial in the Low Countries: Philip the Fair and the Order of the Golden Fleece", EMH, (1985), 113-53. The Princely Courts of Europe 1500-1750: Ritual, Politics.

Week 5

Busnoys' Latin-texted Works

Busnoys' Latin-texted works (Taruskin, 2 vols., 1990-1992). Busnoys, ed. Paula Higgins (1999)

Week 6

L'homme armé

"The Ceremony of the Armed Man" Warmington (Busnoys, 1999)

L'homme armé masses

Week 7

Council of Trent and music

Weinmann, 1919; Weber 1982; Musica e liturgia nella riforma tridentina 1995

Week 8

Confraternities and music

Otero Nieto, Seville (1997)

Wilson, Florence (1992)

Week 9

Civic Ritual

Music and Musicians in Renaissance Cities and Towns ed. Kisby (2001)

Week 10

Civic Ritual, cont.

The royal entry: Elizabeth I

Processions. Images

Week 11

Instrumental Music and Liturgy

Schrade, "The Organ in the Mass-15th c."

Higginbottom, "Organ Music & Liturgy"

Buxheim Organ MS (Fridolin Sicher)

Glogauer Liederbuch (c.1480)

Week 12

Death and dying

The Requiem Mass; psalms The Reformation of the Dead : Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, Koslofsky (1999)

Week 13

Lasso & Counter-Reformation

Crook. Lasso's Imitation Magnificats for Counter-Reformation Munich. 1994.

Week 14

Lasso & Counter-Reformation

Zager, "Post-Tridentine liturgical change and functional music" Lasso Studies,1999

Week 15

Student presentations