Chanson and Madrigal, 1480-1530: Studies in Comparison and Contrast, A Conference at Isham Memorial Library, September 13-14, 1961 (Isham Library Papers, 2)

The relations between the Parisian chanson and the nascent Italian madrigal at the turn of the 16th century pose a musicological problem of wide but definable scope, with implications for literary and cultural history. This book is an edited presentation of the second Isham Conference, including the papers read by Howard Brown, Walter Rubsaman, and Daniel Heartz, and the subsequent discussions. The subject has never before had thorough consideration; many hitherto neglected aspects and much new material are included. The appendix of musical examples, most of them not readily available, comprises a small anthology of French and Italian Renaissance music. PREFACE CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS CHAIRMAN’S PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS I. THE GENESIS OF A STYLE:THE PARISIAN CHANSON, Ι500-1530 II. FROM FROTTOLA TO MADRIGAL:THE CHANGING PATTERN OF SECULAR ITALIAN VOCAL MUSIC III. LES GOÛTS RÉUNIS OR TH E WORLDS OF THE MADRIGAL AND THE CHANSON CONFRONTED MUSICAL EXAMPLES. INDEX INDEX The "Musical examples" (p. [139]-255) include a number of complete vocal compositions from mss. or sixteenth-century printed sources, almost all of which appear here for the first time in a modern edition.