‎Robert Nosow‎
‎Hobrecht and His Singers‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, 321 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:9 b/w, 14 col., 27 tables b/w., 1 maps b/w, 19 musical examples, Language: English. ISBN 9782503597027.‎

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‎Summary Hobrecht and His Singers frames the life of the illustrious composer Jacob Hobrecht (Obrecht) within a single institution, the Church of St. Donatian in Bruges. As a collective biography of the musicians at an important collegiate church in the late fifteenth century, the book will be of interest to readers of ecclesiastical, social, and urban history. Hobrecht twice served as succentor, or master of the choirboys, and twice was forced to leave the city?the first time in the wake of a devastating civil war, the second time in disgrace. The monograph focuses on the social and economic realities for the succentors and polyphonic singers, the Companions of Music, who worked closely together on a daily basis, during the years 1485-1505. Thick description provides a more comprehensive context for the lives of Jacob Hobrecht and seven musicians whose biographies are recounted here for the first time. Conflicts between the singers and the collegiate church to which they were pledged, driven in part by their emerging professional status circa 1500, helped lead to different career trajectories, in one case ending in tragedy. Numerous new documents add uncommon detail, both quotidian and dramatic, to the career of Hobrecht, necessitating original interpretations. Seven representative compositions written during his two periods in Bruges?both Masses and motets?demonstrate the kinds of work he undertook as succentor and the occasions for which he composed them, poised at the intersection of church and urban culture. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Musical Examples List of Tables Notes on the Text Prologue I The Church of St. Donatian, 1485-1505: Social and Economic Considerations 1 The Succentor The Lof A New Foundation for the Choirboys Responsibilities and Income Composition 2 The socii de musica and tenoriste The clerici installati The Chaplains The socii de musica The tenoriste Annual Feasts and Ceremonies II Jacob Hobrecht, Succentor 3 Jacob Hobrecht, 1485-1490 Recruitment from Cambrai The Daily Round Alma redemptoris mater Three Royal Entries Return from Ferrara Chaplaincy The Poaching of a Choirboy 4 Jacob Hobrecht and the Fall of Bruges Arrest and Imprisonment The Missa de Sancto Donatiano 5 Pieter Basijn, the Missa de Sancto Martino, and the Missa Adieu mes amours The Foundation for Saint Martin A Mass of the Holy Spirit 6 Jacob Hobrecht, 1499-1500 Disarray in the Succentorship Twenty Months Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici The Chapel of Archduke Philip the Fair Illness and Resignation Chaplaincy Provostship and a Motet 7 The May Fairs O preciosissime sanguis/Guberna tuos The Procession of 1501 III The Singers of a Collegiate Church, 1485-1505 8 The Singers and the Canons I Petrus Zouburch Cristianus Baelde Nicolaus Sarrigot Gregorius Mijs 9 The Singers and the Canons II Three tenoriste Johannes de Clita Petrus de Corte 10 Anthonius de Rycke, 1501-1505 Succentorship Departure and Excommunication Documents: Latin sources edited with the assistance of Tedd A. Wimperis Appendix: Inventory of Bruges, Grootseminarie Bibliotheek, MS 75-37, Processional Bibliography of Primary Sources Bibliography of Secondary Sources Index of Musicians and Clerici installati General Index‎