1st Edition

The Music of Juan de Anchieta

By Tess Knighton, Kenneth Kreitner Copyright 2019
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores Juan de Anchieta’s life and his music and, for the first time, presents a critical study of the life and works of a major Spanish composer from the time of Ferdinand and Isabel. A key figure in musical developments in Spain in the decades around 1500, Anchieta served in the Castilian royal chapel for over thirty years, from his appointment in 1489 as a singer in the household... Read more

List of sources;  List of tables;  List of musical examples;  A Note on musical examples and abbreviations;  Introduction;  1. The life of Juan de Anchieta (Tess Knighton);  2. The early service music (Kenneth Kreitner);  3. The motets (Tess Knighton);  4. The early mass music (Kenneth Kreitner);  5. The songs (Tess Knighton);  6. The late sacred music (Kenneth Kreitner);  7. Anchieta: an appreciation (Tess Knighton and Kenneth Kreitner);  Appendix 1: Anchieta worklist;  Appendix 2: Anchieta’s itinerary, 1489-1523;  Appendix 3: Documentation;  Appendix 4: Schematic analyses of motets attributed to or possibly by Anchieta;  Bibliography;  Index

Biography

Tess Knighton has been an ICREA Research Professor affiliated to the Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC) in Barcelona since 2011. She is also an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. Between 1992 and 2009, she was editor of the journal Early Music, and she is a series editor of the Boydell Press’s Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music. The volume she edited with Alvaro Torrente on Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 14501800 won the Robert M. Stevenson Award from the American Musicological Society. Her most recent publications include the Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs (2017) and Hearing the City in Early Modern Europe (2018).



Kenneth Kreitner is Benjamin W. Rawlins Professor of Musicology at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music of the University of Memphis. His publications include Discoursing Sweet Music: Town Bands and Community Life in Turn-of-the-Century Pennsylvania (1990); The Church Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain (2004), which won the 2007 Robert M. Stevenson Award from the American Musicological Society; and articles on Spanish Renaissance music and early performance practice in Early Music, Early Music History, Musica Disciplina, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and elsewhere.