The Rosary Cantoral : ritual and social design in a chantbook from early Renaissance Toledo

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    • Candelaria, Lorenzo F.

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The Rosary Cantoral : ritual and social design in a chantbook from early Renaissance Toledo

Lorenzo Candelaria

(Eastman studies in music)

University of Rochester Press, 2008

  • : hc. : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-205) and index

Contents of Works

  • The mystery of the Rosary Cantoral
  • San Pedro Mártir de Toledo
  • "El cavaller de Colunya" : a legend of the Rosary
  • The emblem of the Five Wounds
  • Hercules and Albrecht Dürer's Das meerwunder
  • Roses for the Blessed Virgin : the music
  • The confraternity of Toledo and its patronage

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Unlocks the secrets behind the images and music of an important Spanish musical manuscript compiled for a brotherhood of suspected heretics ca. 1500. 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 communityit served: the Dominicans of San Pedro Martir 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 illuminatedmusic 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 Durer), its rare Spanish chants for the Mass, and two striking musical works for multiplevoices (one by Josquin Desprez and another on "L'homme arme"). 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 (University of Texas at Austin) is co-author of American Music: A Panorama.

Table of Contents

The Mystery of the Rosary Cantoral San Pedro Martir de Toledo "El Cavaller de Colunya": A Legend of the Rosary The Emblem of the Five Wounds Hercules and Albrecht Durer's Das Meerwunder Roses for the Blessed Virgin: The Music The Confraternity of Toledo and Its Patronage

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