NETWORKS OF MUSIC AND CULTURE IN THE LATE SIXTEENTH AND EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries A Collection of Essays in Celebration of Peter Philips’s 450th Anniversary Edited by DAVID J. SMITH University of Aberdeen, UK RACHELLE TAYLOR McGill University, Canada with the assistance of Julia R. Dokter First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 2013 David J. Smith, Rachelle Taylor and the contributors David J. Smith and Rachelle Taylor have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Networks of music and culture in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries : a collection of essays in celebration of Peter Philips’s 450th anniversary / edited by David J. Smith and Rachelle Taylor. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-47241198-3 (hardcover) 1. Music—16th century—History and criticism. 2. Music—17th century—History and criticism. 3. Music—Social aspects. 4. Philips, Peter, 1561–1628. I. Smith, David J. (David John), 1965– editor of compilation. II. Taylor, Rachelle, editor of compilation. ML55.P515 2014 780.9’04—dc23 780.9’04—dc23 2013020877 ISBN 9781472411983 (hbk) ISBN 9781315597843 (ebk) Bach musicological font developed by © Yo Tomita Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Music Examples List of Appendices Manuscript Sigla and Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements 1 Introduction David J. Smith 2 The Interconnection of Religious, Social and Musical Networks: Creating a Context for the Keyboard Music of Peter Philips and its Dissemination David J. Smith 3 The Liber fratrum cruciferorum Leodiensium and the Dissemination of Organ Repertoire in the Netherlands during the Seventeenth Century Émilie Corswarem 4 The Pious Mr Philips and his Few-Voiced Motets at Isabella’s Confraternity of Our Lady Anne Lyman 5 The Ear of the Lynx: The Musical Legacy of the Accademia dei Lincei Naomi J. Barker 6 Politics, Religion, Style and the Passamezzo Galliards of Byrd and Philips: A Discussion of Networks Involving Byrd and his Disciples Rachelle Taylor and Frauke Jürgensen 7 Musical Rhetoric Lost in Translation: National, Religious and Linguistic Networks and the Determination of Title in Sweelinck’s Organ Variations on Psalm 36 Julia R. Dokter 8 What is a Composer? Problems of Attribution in Keyboard Music from the Circle of Philips and Sweelinck David Schulenberg 9 Orlando Gibbons’s Keyboard Music: The Continental Perspective Pieter Dirksen 10 A Pattern Recognition Approach to the Attribution of Early Seventeenth- Century Keyboard Compositions using Features of Diminutions Peter van Kranenburg and Johan Zoutendijk 11 ‘Full of Art, and Profundity’: The Five-Part Consort Pavan as a Medium for Sophisticated Musical Expression and Compositional Cross-Reference in Late Renaissance England John Bryan 12 Networking, Patronage and Professionalism in the Early History of Violin Playing: The Case of William Brade (c.1560–1630) Arne Spohr 13 Practice and Dissemination of Music in the Catholic Network as Suggested by the Music Collection of Edward Paston (1550–1630) and Other Contemporary Sources Hector Sequera 14 Social Networking in Seventeenth-Century Italy: The ‘Harmonious Letters’ of a Monk-Musician Abigail Ballantyne Bibliography Index List of Figures 3.1 Matthaus le jeune, map of the City of Liège (etching, 28.5 × 27.5 cm, 1650). Reproduced by permission of the Collections artistiques de l’Université de Liège. 3.2 Liber fratrum cruciferorum, f. 40v. Reproduced by permission of Université de Liège, Bibliothèque générale de Philosophie et Lettres. 5.1 Stelluti, Persio tradotto in verso sciolto (Rome, 1630), p. 187. © British Library Board, shelf-mark 77.d.14. 12.1 William Brade, Außerlesener Paduanen und Galliarden Erster Theil (Hamburg, 1609), title page of ‘Basso’ part. Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel: 36.4 Musica Helmst (7). Reproduced by permission. 14.1 Adriano Banchieri, Lettere amoniche (Bologna, 1628), title page. Reproduced by permission of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna. 14.2 Adriano Banchieri, Lettere scritte (Bologna, 1630), title page. Reproduced by permission of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna. 14.3 Example of a ‘Pleasant letter’ that Adriano Banchieri sent to an anonymous recipient (Banchieri 1628, p. 56). Reproduced by permission of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna. 14.4 Transcription and translation of a letter to an anonymous friend included in Adriano Banchieri’s Lettere armoniche (Bologna, 1628), p. 14. List of Tables 2.1 Letters containing information about Philips’s journey to Amsterdam 2.2 Keyboard works by Philips preserved only in Spanish Netherlands sources 4.1 The endowed Saturday services of Peter Philips, 1623–28 4.2 Marian motets of Peter Philips and the post-Tridentine Recollectio 7.1 List of possible texts for Sweelinck’s set of variations in Tor-5 7.2 French original and English translation of text 7.3 German translation (Lobwasser) and its English translation 7.4 Dutch translation (Dathenus) and its English translation 7.5 German translation: verse 1, line 5 7.6 Dutch and German translations: verse 1, lines 8 and 9 7.7 Dutch translation: verse 2, line 3 7.8 Dutch and German translations: verse 2, line 6 7.9 Dutch and German translations: verse 2, lines 8 and 9 7.10 Dutch translation: verse 2, line 11 8.1 Plans of the Fantasia after Sweelinck (BuK 4) and Fantasia terza, both from Me 9.1 Summary content of LyA2, pp. 38–67 10.1 Anonymous pieces attributed to Peter Philips 10.2 Table of contents of the Vincentius de la Faille Manuscript (1625), based on Charles Van den Borren’s description 10.3 Ghent 96: pieces copied by Scribe IV 10.4 Overview of the compositions used for this study 10.5 Occurrence rates of the ten most common five-note patterns 10.6 Occurrence rates of the ten most common four-note patterns 10.7 Classification results for the diminutions in the disputed compositions 11.1 Comparison of ranges of parts in pavans 12.1 Printed sources of Brade’s music 12.2 William Brade: employment in Denmark and northern Germany, 1594– 1630 12.3 Instrumentalists in the Danish Hofkapelle and their salaries (in Taler), 1598–1606 13.1 Ownership of musical instruments (by popularity)