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Piety and Polyphony in Sixteenth-Century Holland - The Choirbooks of St Peter's Church, Leiden (Hardcover)
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Piety and Polyphony in Sixteenth-Century Holland - The Choirbooks of St Peter's Church, Leiden (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
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Study of musical manuscripts from the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, opening a window on piety, liturgy and musical life in
late medieval society. The musical culture of the Low Countries in
the early modern period was a flourishing one, apparent beyond the
big cathedrals and monasteries, and reaching down to smaller parish
churches. Unfortunately, very few manuscripts containing the music
have survived from the period, and what we know rests to a huge
extent on six music books preserved from St Peter's Church, Leiden.
This book describes the manuscripts, their provenance, history and
repertory, and the zeven-getijdencollege, the ecclesiastical
organisations which ordered the music books, in detail. These
organisations have their roots in fifteenth-century piety, founded
on the initiative of individuals and townadministrators throughout
Holland, principally to ensure that prayers and Masses were said
for those in the afterlife. Music, both chant and polyphony, played
an important part in these commemorative practices; the volume also
looks at the choristers and choirmasters, and how such services
were organised. ERIC JAS is a lecturer in music at the university
of Utrecht.
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