Musicians, Composers and Songwriters

This multidisciplinary volume celebrates the scholarship and career of Lawrence Earp whose work has profoundly shaped the fields of Machaut studies musicology codicology and fourteenth-century studies in general. For over four decades Earp’s meticulous scholarship and generosity in collaboration have been a constant inspiration for medieval scholars students and colleagues alike. The twenty-six innovative essays herein gratefully acknowledge his influence and showcase a variety of fresh approaches. Recognizing both the breadth and depth of Earp’s work the sections of this book are devoted to bibliography historiography literature art history and several musicological topics. Many of the chapters focus on the oeuvre of Guillaume de Machaut but readers will also find explorations on Hildegard of Bingen Philippe de Vitry child performers in medieval theater notation genre motets from the late thirteenth to the early fifteenth centuries and polyphony in Italy and England. Made possible by Earp’s foundational and guiding work this amply illustrated volume invites future interdisciplinary research.

Ivan Lukačić (born around 1585 died in 1648) composer Conventual Franciscan long-time “maestro di cappella” of the cathedral in Split is a typical “hero” of local historiography. As early as 1935 the Croatian-American musicologist Dragan Plamenac (real name Karl Siebenschein) prepared a selection from the only known collection of Lukačić’s compositions the Sacrae cantiones (Venice 1620). In the same year Plamenac introduced Croatian Renaissance and Baroque music to the local audience for the first time at a concert held at the Croatian Music Institute. In the aftermath of Plamenac’s emigration to the USA in 1939 it took several decades for new archival stylistic interdisciplinary and international research in Croatian musicology to take place. Despite the availability of earlier material as well as contemporary musical publications of Lukačić’s work (J. Andreis Zagreb 1970; E. Stipčević Padua 1986) it is not an exaggeration to say that Lukačić still remains unknown internationally. For many years a number of studies of Lukačić and the music of his contemporaries from the “other eastern coast of the Adriatic” published almost exclusively in Croatian and thus the international professional public had very limited access to them. This collection of studies dedicated to Lukačić and to the musical and cultural contacts between the two Adriatic coasts is the first volume to be published in both English and Italian. The echoes of the contacts between Italy and Croatia reached the Royal Palace in Portugal shops selling printed music in Denmark and church archives in Slovenia and Poland. The aim of this book is to follow the traces of that cultural dissemination.

Until now scholars have had an inadequate picture of the scope and transmission of the œuvre of Ludwig Senfl (c.1490-1543) one of the most important Renaissance composers of the German-speaking lands.
The current publication presents an extraordinary and exceptionally comprehensive catalogue raisonné for this Renaissance composer.

The Senfl Catalogue serves as an encyclopaedic research tool for further scholarly investigation: it not only presents a lively and coherent picture of Senfl’s œuvre but also helps to explore the broader musical culture of his time. At the same time the in-depth presentation and analysis of Senfl’s music provides Early Music performers with new information on repertory that adds to the soundscape of the Renaissance.