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The Rosary Cantoral
Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo
Lorenzo Candelaria
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 (University of Texas at Austin) is co-author of American Music: A Panorama.
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DETAILS
30 b/w illustrations
16 line illustrations
Size: 9 x 6 in
10 digit ISBN: 1580462057
13 digit ISBN: 9781580462051
Binding: Hardback
First published: 01/Mar/2008
Price: 55.00 USD / 30.00 GBP
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Subject: Music
BIC class: AVH
STATUS: Available
Details updated on 07/10/2008
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Reviews
The book is in many ways a detective story which identifies the MS's provenance and function by fascinating and devious approaches: I won't try to summarise it and spoil the story. . . . This study throws light not only on this particular MS but on the usage of the Rosary in Spanish politics and history. And there is a moral for art historians studying MSS with music and vice-versa: see beyond your own discipline. EARLY MUSIC REVIEW [Clifford Bartlett]
This book is a real page-turner -- Candelaria's reconstruction of the history of the deluxe Rosary Cantoral reads like a detective story. His skillful interpretation of the origin, content, and symbolism of this Renaissance masterpiece interweaves all the elements of its musical, liturgical, artistic, and social design in fascinating ways. -- Anne Walters Robertson, The University of Chicago
This nonpareil volume merits the admiration and closest attention of Hispanists, late medieval, and early Renaissance scholars. In addition to priceless information presented in free-flowing prose, The Rosary Cantoral profits from the exquisite aspect of every publication detail. -- Robert Stevenson, University of California, Los Angeles
Professor Candelaria has situated stunningly beautiful choir books in their liturgical, music, spiritual, and historical contexts. He takes us with him on an adventure through archival materials, paleographic study, and musical analysis, as we watch him crack the case. His use of a refined skill set in an especially engaging way makes the book a splendid introduction for the non-specialist to the complexities of musicological research. -- Margot Fassler, Yale University
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