Musical culture in the Wars of Religion, 1550–1650
A. M. Robinson
Although interdisciplinary research has long been valued by scholars, genuine opportunities for specialists from different domains to share their with others working in similar geographical and chronological areas remain relatively scarce. In part, this conference—held on 17–18 March 2018 organized a historian (Tom Hamilton) two musicologists (Edward Wickham Alex Robinson)—represented an attempt address tendency. Centred the age of Wars Religion (1550–1650), it aimed provide meeting point historians exchange ideas about links between music, politics religion across Europe during turbulent period. Yet there was another significant impetus organizing such event 2018: release CD recording Edward Choir St Catherine’s College, Cambridge psalm settings Claude Le Jeune’s Dodecacorde 1598 (Mon Dieu me plaist: Psalms Jeune; Resonus res10206). The opportunity use circumstance as inspiration conference devoted musical culture simply too good miss.
Early Music