Table of Contents

Introduction - Bernardo J García García
The court chapel: a musical profile and the historiographical context of an institution - Juan José Carreras
The English royal chapel: models and perspectives - Andrew Wathey
Rites of passage: music, ceremony and dynasty in Renaisssance Florence and Venice - Iain Fenlon
The institution of the imperial court chapel from Maximilian I to Charles VI - Herbert Seifert
The Chapelle Royale in the time of Louis XIV - Catherine Massip
`Foreign' music and musicians in sixteenth-century Spain - Emilio Ros Fábregas
A meeting of chapels: Toledo, 1502 - Tess Knighton
Musical relations between the court and collegiate chapels in the Netherlands [1450-1560] - Eugeen Schreurs
Nicolas Payen, an unknown chapelmaster of Charles V and Philip II - Ignace Bossuyt
The form and function of the music chapel at the court of Philip II - Luis Robledo Estaire
Processions to the `city of the dead': the Spanish royal chapel and an anonymous Requiem from El Escorial - Michael Noone
The royal chapel in the etiquettes of the viceregal court of Naples during the eighteenth century - Dinko Fabris
The musicians of the Spanish royal chapel and court entertainments, 1590-1648 - Louise K Stein
Spaces for court music - José Manuel Barbeito Díez
The pulpit in the royal chapel during the Spanish Hapsburg era: a receptacle and echo of Baroque culture - Francis Cerdán
The royal chapel as the setting for political struggle: praise and attacks on the royal favourite during the time of Philip IV - Fernando Negredo del Cerro
The ceremonial of majesty and aristocratic protest: the royal chapel at the court of Charles II - Antonio Alvarez-Ossorio Alvariño
The palace royal chapel at the end of the seventeenth century - Juan Sanchez Belén
The royal chapel and musical networks: festería, brotherhoods and friendly societies for musicians in eighteenth- century Madridcentury Madrid - Nicolás Morales

About the Author

TESS KNIGHTON is an ICREA Research Professor affiliated to the Institució Milà i Fontanals-CSIC in Barcelona and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

Reviews

An important book. [...] A valuable contribution to the field of court studies.
*RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY*

Every essay is well written, authoritative, and informative. There are no weak links...One of the things that this study does well is to cover its subject from many angles with a variety of methodologies and a broad chronological spectrum...It is clearly the work of excellent scholars who care about their field.
*MUSIC & LETTERS*

The first important study of the Spanish capilla real...innovatory.
*EARLY MUSIC*