A Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Andrew H. Weaver (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America. He has published widely on music at the seventeenth-century Habsburg courts, including Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (Ashgate, 2012).

Contents



Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

List of Music Examples

Manuscript Sigla and Other Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Andrew H. Weaver

 1 Politics, Religion, and Music at the Early Modern Habsburg Courts: Some Context

 Paula Sutter Fichtner with Andrew H. Weaver



Part 1: Institutional Contexts

 2 The Court Chapels of the Habsburg-Burgundian Line: From Emperor Maximilian I to Emperor Charles V

 Honey Meconi

 3 The Court Chapels of the Spanish Line: From King Philip II to King Charles II

 Pablo L. Rodríguez

 4 The Court Chapels of the Austrian Line (I): From Emperor Ferdinand I to Emperor Matthias

 Jonas Pfohl

 5 The Court Chapels of the Austrian Line (II): From Archduke Charles II to Emperor Leopold I

 Lawrence Bennett, Steven Saunders, and Andrew H. Weaver

 6 The Court Chapels of the Tyrolean Line: From Archduke Ferdinand II to Archduke Ferdinand Charles

 Sara Pecknold



Part 2: Cultural Contexts

 7 Italian Musical Dramatic Genres at the Courts of the Austrian Habsburgs

 Herbert Seifert

 8 Festivity and Spectacle at the Spanish Royal Court

 Louise K. Stein

 9 Contexts for and Functions of Instrumental Music in Central Europe

 Charles E. Brewer

 10 Manuscript Culture: The Habsburg-Burgundian Scriptorium and Some Successors

 Honey Meconi

 11 Print Culture: Printed Music and Other Media in the Service of the Habsburgs

 Andrew H. Weaver

 12 Colonialism and Music in Habsburg New Spain

 Drew Edward Davies



Part 3: International Contexts

 13 Die Teutsche Nation: Musical Links between the Habsburg Courts and the German States of the Empire

 Alexander J. Fisher

 14 Milan: Imperial City and ‘Theatre of the World’

 Christine Getz

 15 Musical Connections between the Austrian Habsburgs and Venice in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

 Beth L. Glixon, Jeffrey Kurtzman, and Steven Saunders

 16 A Tale of Two entrate:Processions, Politics, and Patronage for the Habsburgs in Sixteenth – and Seventeenth-Century Rome

 Virginia Christy Lamothe



Index