Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond

Introduction Benjamin Brand and David J. Rothenberg; 1. Music and liturgy in medieval Capua Thomas Forrest Kelly; 2. Theory meets practice: the model antiphon series Primum quaerite in Hucbald's Office In plateis and in other post-Carolingian chant Barbara Haggh-Huglo; 3. Singing from the pulpit: polyphonic improvisation and public ritual in medieval Tuscany Benjamin Brand; 4. Liturgy and politics in Renaissance Florence: the creation of the 1526 Office for St Zenobius Marica S. Tacconi; 5. Music and pageantry in the formation of Hispano-Christian identity: the Feast of St Hippolytus in sixteenth-century Mexico City Lorenza Candelaria; Part II. Archival and Source Studies: 6. The sources and the sanctorale: dating by the decade in thirteenth-century Paris Rebecca A. Baltzer; 7. Vernacular contexts for the monophonic motet: notes from a new source Mark Everist; 8. Tradition and innovation in fourteenth-century instrumental music: evidence from archival and musical sources Keith Polk; 9. Melchior or Marchion de Civilibus, prepositus brixiensis: new documents Margaret Bent; 10. Papal musicians at Cambrai in the early fifteenth century Alejandro Enrique Planchart; 11. Sixtus IV, the Franciscans, and the beginning of music printing in fifteenth-century Rome Jane A. Bernstein; Part III. Symbolism: 12. The gate that carries Christ: wordplay and liturgical imagery in a motet from c.1300 David J. Rothenberg; 13. A musical lesson for a king from the Roman de Fauvel Anne Walters Robertson; 14. Preaching to the choir? Obrecht's Motet for the Dedication of the Church M. Jennifer Bloxam; 15. The Madonna triptych: a mystical reading of three early music videos Andrew Tomasello.