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The Rosary Cantoral

By Lorenzo Candelaria

The Rosary Cantoral Arts & Music

The Rosary Cantoral

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The Rosary Cantoral is a rare and beautifully decorated manuscript of Latin plainchant for the Catholic Mass compiled in Toledo, Spain, around the year 1500. In an engaging and richly interdisciplinary essay, Lorenzo Candelaria approaches the Rosary Cantoral as a cultural artifact, unlocking the secrets behind its images and music to reveal the social history and rituals of an elite brotherhood dedicated to the rosary and aspects of the religious community it served: the Dominicans of San Pedro Mártir de Toledo.The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo presents a model for realizing the fuller significance of illuminated music manuscripts as cultural artifacts and offers unprecedented insights into the social and devotional life of Toledo, Spain, around the turn of the sixteenth century. After solving the mystery of the Rosary Cantoral's origins, subsequent essays probe the meaning and cultural significance of the manuscript's iconography (including a border decoration after Albrecht Dürer), its rare Spanish chants for the Mass, and two striking musical works for multiple voices (one by Josquin Desprez and another on "L'homme armé"). Ultimately, this book focuses on the extraordinary circumstances that engendered the compilation of the Rosary Cantoral around 1500: a system of patronage between a brotherhood of suspected heretics and a religious house that was a key supporter of the Inquisition in Toledo.
Lorenzo Candelaria is an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Texas at Austin. His recent and forthcoming books include American Music: A Panorama (with Daniel Kingman) and Music in Mexican Catholicism.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2008-03-01
Publication Date:
2008-03-01
Publisher:
University of Rochester Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1580462057
ISBN13:
9781580462051
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
571 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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