Listening to Confraternities

Spaces for Performance, Patronage and Urban Musical Experience
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-54420-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 92, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1200 g

Reihe: Intersections

Listening to Confraternities offers new perspectives on the contribution of guild and devotional confraternities to the urban phonosphere based on original research and an interdisciplinary approach. Historians of art, architecture, culture, sound, music and the senses consider the ways in which, through their devotional practices, confraternities acted as patrons of music, created their identity through sound and were involved in the everyday musical experience of major cities in early modern Europe. Confraternities have been studied from many different angles, but only rarely as acoustic communities that communicated through sound and whose musical activities delimited the urban spaces in which they were active.

Contributors: Nicholas Terpstra, Emanuela Vai, Ana López Suero, Henry Drummond, Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, Ferrán Escrivà-Llorca, Noel O’Regan, Magnus Williamson, Xavier Torres Sans, Erika Honisch, Alexander Fisher, Konrad Eisenbichler, Daniele Filippi, Dylan Reid, Elisa Lessa, Antonio Ruiz Caballero, Juan Ruiz Jiménez, Sergi González González, and Tess Knighton.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knighton, Tess

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures, Music Examples and Tables

Note on the Editor

Notes on the Contributors

1 Introduction: Sounds of Body and Spirit – Sense, Space, and Motion in Confraternities

Nicholas Terpstra

Part 1: The Participation of Confraternities in Urban Ceremonial

2 The ‘Sensoryscape’ of the Good Friday Procession in Early Modern Venetian Bergamo

Emanuela Vai

3 Musical Interactions at the Confraternity of Our Lady of the Rosary in Antwerp in the Seventeenth Century

Ana López Suero

4 Sound and Confraternal Piety in Early Modern Leuven

Henry Drummond

5 Music and Students in the Academy and Confraternity of St. Thomas Aquinas in Barcelona (1588)

Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita

6 The Sonic and Ceremonial Contribution of the Confraternity of Sant Jordi and the Centenar de la Ploma to Celebratory Processions in Valencia

Ferran Escrivà-Llorca

Part 2: Devotional Practice and Religious Reform

7 Corporations or Confraternities? Strategies Adopted by Artisan Groups in Response to Pressures Arising from the Catholic Reformation

Noel O’Regan

8 Confraternities and Music on the Eve of the Reformation: Early-Tudor Boston

Magnus Williamson

9 Who was Listening to Oratorio? Lay Confraternities and Patrician Music in Early Modern Italy

Xavier Torres

10 Mustering Troops and Teaching Counterpoint: The Musical Incursions of a Central European Redemption Confraternity

Erika Supria Honisch

11 Confraternities, Congregations and Aural Culture in Counter-Reformation Germany

Alexander Fisher

Part 3: Confraternities as Acoustic Communities

12 Music and Noise: The Sounds of a Youth Confraternity in Renaissance Florence

Konrad Eisenbichler

13 ‘In parole’ and ‘in canto’: The Songs and Prayers of the Disciplinati in Early Modern Milan

Daniele V. Filippi

14 Performing Poetry at Rouen’s Puy of the Immaculate Conception

Dylan Reid

15 Black Dancers and Musicians Performing Afro-Christian Identity in Early Modern Sources

Elisa Lessa

16 Devotional Collective Singing and the Construction of Christian Indigenous Communities: The Hospital Confraternities of the Concepción in Colonial Michoacán

Antonio Ruiz Caballero

Part 4: Mapping the Contribution of Confraternities to the Urban Soundscape

17 Digital Cartography of the Confraternities of Granada and Their Impact on the Early Modern Urban Soundworld

Juan Ruiz Jiménez

18 Mapping Post-Tridentine Confraternities and Processions in Sixteenth-Century Tarragona

Sergi González González

19 Burying the Bones: Mapping the Sounds and Spaces of the Confraternity of the Verge Maria dels Desamparats in Early Modern Barcelona

Tess Knighton

Index Nominum

Index Locorum

Über Autor(innen)

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).