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

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Manuscript Sigla and Other Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Andrew H. Weaver -- Chapter 1 -- Politics, Religion, and Music at the Early Modern Habsburg Courts: Some Context -- Paula Sutter Fichtner with Andrew H. Weaver -- Part 1 -- Institutional Contexts -- Chapter 2 -- The Court Chapels of the Habsburg-Burgundian Line -- From Emperor Maximilian I to Emperor Charles V -- Honey Meconi -- Chapter 3 -- The Court Chapels of the Spanish Line -- From King Philip II to King Charles II -- Pablo L. Rodríguez -- Chapter 4 -- The Court Chapels of the Austrian Line (I) -- From Emperor Ferdinand I to Emperor Matthias -- Jonas Pfohl -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 6 -- The Court Chapels of the Tyrolean Line -- From Archduke Ferdinand II to Archduke Ferdinand Charles -- Sara Pecknold -- Part 2 -- Cultural Contexts -- Chapter 7 -- Italian Musical Dramatic Genres at the Courts of the Austrian Habsburgs -- Herbert Seifert -- Chapter 8 -- Festivity and Spectacle at the Spanish Royal Court -- Louise K. Stein -- Chapter 9 -- Contexts for and Functions of Instrumental Music in Central Europe -- Charles E. Brewer -- Chapter 10 -- Manuscript Culture -- The Habsburg-Burgundian Scriptorium and Some Successors -- Honey Meconi -- Chapter 11 -- Print Culture -- Printed Music and Other Media in the Service of the Habsbliberurgs -- Andrew H. Weaver -- Chapter 12 -- Colonialism and Music in Habsburg New Spain -- Drew Edward Davies -- Part 3 -- International Contexts -- Chapter 13 -- Die Teutsche Nation -- Musical Links between the Habsburg Courts and the German States of the Empire -- Alexander J. Fisher -- Chapter 14 -- Milan.

Imperial City and 'Theatre of the World' -- Christine Getz -- Chapter 15 -- Musical Connections between the Austrian Habsburgs and Venice in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Beth L. Glixon, Jeffrey Kurtzman, and Steven Saunders -- Chapter 16 -- A Tale of Two entrate -- Processions, Politics, and Patronage for the Habsburgs in Sixteenth - and Seventeenth-Century Rome -- Virginia Christy Lamothe -- Index.

A Companion to Music at the Habsburgs Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, edited by Andrew H. Weaver, is the first in-depth survey of the Habsburg family's musical patronage over a broad span of time.

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