University of California, Berkeley, UC Berkeley, Department of Music

Fall 2005, Music 220, Seminar, Thursday, 2-5

 

Constructing a new ritual context

Reform and music: 1450-1600

Mary Kay Duggan, Prof.  

 

                                      Syllabus | Reserve Book List

 

The period 1450 to 1600 saw dramatic change in the patronage of  ritual as power shifted from Catholic hierarchy and monastery to multiple religious bodies and aristocratic and secular control.   The ways in which ritual music of church, court, and town was reformed, standardized, and regulated encouraged a change in music, composers, and performance practice.  This seminar provides an opportunity to study recent literature that defines ritual and reform, introduces new methodologies, integrates interdisciplinary approaches, and casts new light on composers and their works.  Among topics for study are the elimination of the sequence from the liturgy, music and early liturgies of Luther, changing space and civic ritual, death and dying, the impact of print technology, music instruments in ritual, and the influence of ritual on Busnoys, Isaac, and Lasso.

-- shifts in meaning and impact: ritual, liturgy, ceremony

-- reform and the Catholic Church (standardization, regulation)

-- reform and the emergence of new churches and liturgies

-- ritual and aristocracy (private chapel, public celebration)

-- ritual and city/town  (feasts, processions, confraternities)

 

Selected Readings: Ronald Grimes.  Beginnings in Ritual Studies.  U. of N. Carolina, 1996.

The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages.  Ed. Margot E. Fassler and Rebecca A. Baltzer.  Oxford, 2000

D. Crook.  Orlando di Lasso's Imitation Magnificats for Counter-Reformation Munich. Princeton, '94.

Orlando Di Lasso Studies.  Ed. Peter Bergquist.  Cambridge UP, 1999.

A. Busnoys: Method, Meaning, and Context in Late Medieval Music.  Ed Paula Higgins. Oxford, 1999. Higgins’s Josquin article, JAMS, 2005.

Antoine Busnoys.  Latin-texted Works.  Ed. Richard Taruskin.  2 vols. Broude, 1990-1992.

Craig Wright.  The Maze and the Warrior, L’homme armé in the liturgy.  Harvard, 2001.

Martin Luther.  Liturgy and Hymns.  Vol. 53 of Works.  Ed. Ulrich Leupold. Fortress Press, 1965.

Music and Musicians in Renaissance Cities and Towns.  Ed. Fiona Kisby.  Cambridge UP, 2001.