Music in Manuscript Cultures: 8-9 September 2022

Apache

The music manuscripts from the Monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra provide our richest resource for studying the creation and performance of polyphony in Portugal during the early sixteenth century. Alongside ‘élite’ works of composed polyphony are ‘simpler’ items which reveal multiple ways in which polyphony was generated formulaically, and which thus raise questions about the relationships between the music ‘fixed’ in the books and the performan