Latin and Music in the Early Modern Era Education, Theory, Composition, Performance and Reception (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences)

Exploring the relationship between Latin and music during the early modern era, this volume focuses on the link between Latin and music in the educational system of the time, and the development and influence of musical humanism, especially in settings of classical and Neo\-Latin texts. Contents 6 Abstract 8 Keywords 8 1 Introduction 8 2 Background: Ancient Roman, Early Christian and Medieval Music 13 3 Music and Latin in Early Modern Education: The Development and Pervasive Influence of Musical Humanism 17 3.1 Choir Schools, Grammar Schools, Private Tutors, Universities, and Evidence for a Basic Knowledge of Latin and Musical Competence in a Domestic Context 17 3.2 Dedicatory Documents to Music Publications and the Poetry Written by Composers: The Philological Approach 24 3.3 Music Treatises, Their Purpose and Use, the Tensions between Musical Content and Standards of Latinity, and the Increasing Preference for Use of the Vernacular 28 4 Musical Settings of Classical Verse: Case Studies 40 4.1 Vergil 40 4.2 Horace 49 4.3 Martial and Seneca 56 4.4 Musical Settings of Composite and Secular Neo-Latin Verse: Catullus, Vergil, Ovid and Their Sixteenth-Century Imitators: The Moralia of Jacobus Handl 58 5 Music in Neo-Latin Drama: Germany and Austria 63 6 Musical Settings of Liturgical and Extra-liturgical Latin Texts and Their Context: The Mass and the Canonical Hours: Case Studies 72 6.1 The Sixteenth Century 74 6.2 The Eighteenth Century 80 7 Conclusion 86 8 Future Research 88 References 91 Primary Literature 91 Secondary Literature 95 Index of Primary Sources 104 Index of Names and Subjects 105 "Situating the close relationship between Latin and music within its historical context, this volume presents an overview of Latin and music in the educational system of the time - schools, choir schools and universities - and the development and pervasive influence of musical humanism. This influence is seen primarily in the writings of music theorists, the documents of dedication found in music publications and above all in the settings of classical and Neo-Latin texts as well as in some liturgical and extra-liturgical ones. Discussion of this repertoire forms the centre of the volume. The emphasis is on practical matters: the study of Latin and music, and the music's composition, performance and reception"-- Provided by publisher "Situating the close relationship between Latin and music within its historical context, this volume presents an overview of Latin and music in the educational system of the time - schools, choir schools and universities - and the development and pervasive influence of musical humanism. This influence is seen primarily in the writings of music theorists, the documents of dedication found in music publications and above all in the settings of classical and Neo-Latin texts as well as in some liturgical and extra-liturgical ones. Discussion of this repertoire forms the centre of the volume. The emphasis is on practical matters: the study of Latin and music, and the music's composition, performance and reception"-- Page 4 of cover