Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Musical Examples
List of Abbreviations
A Note on Names
I. BiographyA: Who Was Pierre de la Rue?
B: Early Years
C: Peter van der Straten
D: The Habsburg-Burgundian Chapel under Maximilian, Philip, and Juana: 1492?-1508
E: The Chapel Under Marguerite and Charles: 1508-1516
F: Retirement: 1516-1518
II. The Grande chapelle and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian CourtA: Structure and Duties of the Chapel
B: La Rue's Colleagues
C: Music Available at the Court
D: La Rue's Significance at Court
III. Aspects of Sacred MusicA: Observations on the Structure and Chronology of La Rue's Masses
B: Examples of Borrowing in La Rue's Sacred Music
C: Liturgical Functions of La Rue's Sacred Music
IV. Aspects of Secular MusicA: Overview
B: Two Examples
C: Problems of Authenticity
D: Observations
V. Patterns of InfluenceA: Ockeghem and Josquin
B: Dissemination of Music and the Josquin Generations
C: Literary and Theoretical Citations
D: Growth of a Reputation
E: Who is Pierre de la Rue?
Appendix A: Chronology of Events
Appendix B: Chronology of Sources
Appendix C: Literary and Theoretical Citations
Appendix D: Catalogue of Works
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Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts and Printed Sources
Index of Compositions by or attributed to La Rue
General Index

About the Author

Honey Meconi is Director of Medieval Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania and Music Fellow of Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy. Dr Meconi's shorter writings have been published widely including with the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Journal of Musicology, Early Music, Journal of the American Musicological Society, and numerous others. She is currently editing
Early Musical Borrowing for Garland in their series "Criticism and Analysis of Early Music".

Reviews

Meconi has done the scholarly community a service by presenting so many of her findings on La Rue and his music together here. Early Music ... a rare feature of the book is that an endearing individuality does come through ... surprisingly readable. Early Music Review