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MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MUSIC CONFERENCE <strong>2007</strong> – WIEN, 7.-11. AUGUST ABSTRACTS � � DESMET, Marc (Université Jean-Monnet Saint-Étienne) “Nervus praeli et typographicum robur fractum”: Jacob Handl’s relation to the press Donnerstag/Thursday, 9.8., 16.00 Uhr, KuGe, SR 1 The latine forewords conceived by Jacob Handl to the printed editions of his music are to this date the only texts we know to be of his own. The nature of these texts is often formal, borrowing to the epistolary rhetorics of humanist writing the major part of its substance. This very formalism strengthens the importance of the few concrete details which are to be found among commonplace topoi, and which rank among the rare clues from which what we know about the composer’s biography has been reconstructed. Among these details are a few precise allusions to the press. These mentions have been read as to testify the involvement of the composer in the printing process of his own œuvre, almost entirely completed during his lifetime in Prague by the great printer Georgius Nigrinus/Jirí Cerný. This communication would like to suggest some new hypotheses on the link between the composer and the sphere of typography, notably through the influence and activity as a printer of Jacob’s brother Georg Handl. The production of Georg Handl the printer will be examined, which can complement information about the fame and constitution of Jacob’s own printed output. � � DIEGO PACHECO, Cristina (Université Nancy) Morales before Rome: New Evidence and New Hypotheses Donnerstag/Thursday, 9.8., 11.15 Uhr, KuGe, SR 1 Cristóbal de Morales’s biography is still not complete despite his renown. Little is known about this Spanish composer’s early years and works, including his time as chapel master at Plasencia Cathedral, which were nevertheless decisive in accomplishing him as a composer prior to his arrival in Rome. Both his Roman period and that corresponding to his later years spent in Spain remain well documented. However, we have found new information concerning his early years in the town of Plasencia’s archives. Morales’ musical creativity must have commenced long before his arrival in Rome. The recent discovery of ‘new’ works from that period confirms this conjecture: An anonymous motet found in Valladolid Cathedral is concordant with a keyboard version published by Gonzalo de Baena whose first edition was likely published in 1534, thus implying that Morales was already a very well-known composer before leaving for Rome. Furthermore, newly found unica in Valladolid may also have been composed during that very same period and brought to Valladolid Collegiate Church via the nearby Palencia Cathedral opening the Pandora box of those often confusing and fascinating questions surrounding manuscript-repertory transmission. Ordóñez, who was a disciple of Morales in Plasencia, may well have brought some of his master’s works to Palencia where Ordóñez was later appointed chapel master, and then from Palencia to Valladolid, two not-so-distant towns whose cultural and musical links were well established. That said, - 26 -
MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MUSIC CONFERENCE <strong>2007</strong> – WIEN, 7.-11. AUGUST ABSTRACTS we thus question the alleged date of birth of Morales and place it prior to 1500 since his ordination and the subsequent prebend he enjoyed in Plasencia could only have occurred around the age of 30. � � DONNELLY, Dan (McGill University, Montréal) Musica, Mensa, Meraviglia: The Ferrarese Banquets of Cristofaro di Messisbugo Freitag/Friday, 10.8., 11.45 Uhr, KuGe, SR 1 A man of impeccable cultivation and unparalleled cultural sophistication, Cristofaro di Messisbugo (149?-1548) dominated the cultural life of the Este court at Ferrara for nearly three decades following his appointment as chief steward and head of household (scalco) in 1519. His voluminous compendia have long been considered among the best contemporary records of the day-to-day operations of the court as an institution. Along the same lines, his Banchetti, compositioni di vivande, et apparechio generale, published posthumously in 1549 (and subsequently reprinted more than a dozen times), provides some of the most fascinating first-hand accounts of the manner in which cultural events were integrated into the daily life of the Este family. One banquet it describes, given by Alfonso I’s son and heir Ercole in 1529, has been cited by Lewis Lockwood among others as a testament to the vibrant and innovative cultural environment of cinquecento Ferrara, but such references fail to take into account the greater cultural importance of the book as a whole. I will show that a more thorough reading of Banchetti reveals precisely the manner in which Messisbugo, the ideal scalco, used his prior experience as a court musician to integrate music, theatre, and food into a single, artistically unified complex of entertainments. In such a complex, the wonders of the table and the stage, united through the musical intermedi that traditionally accompanied both, worked in concert to instill an unprecedented sense of awe (meraviglia) in the spectator-participants, effectively combining all of the court’s resources in a monument to the grandeur and munificence of the Prince. Given a political environment that relied increasingly on keeping up appearances, this extraordinary skill explains how Messisbugo could rise to the station of palatine count, where a generation earlier he would have been regarded as little more than a servant. � � DUMITRESCU, Theodor (Universiteit Utrecht) The polyphonic Paschal Kyrie c. 1500: the compositional tradition and a new Low Countries fragment Freitag/Friday, 10.8., 15.00 Uhr, MuWi, HS 1 The discovery of a set of leaves of polyphony bound into a 16th-century print now kept at the library of Durham University offers a starting point for considering a significant but under-explored compositional tradition. Housed at an early date in Brussels, the Durham copy of Joannes Magnus’s “Gothorum Sueonumque Historia“ (Rome, 1554) likely received its binding in the late 16th or early 17th century in the same region drawing upon locally- - 27 -
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