Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome
Title | Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Sherr |
Publisher | Clarendon Press |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 1998-05-21 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0191590231 |
This book collects twelve of the papers given at a conference held at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., on 1-3 April 1993, in conjunction with the exhibition `Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture'. A group of distinguished scholars considered music in medieval and Renaissance Rome. The volume presents a series of wide-ranging and original treatments of music written for and performed in the papal court from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. New discoveries are offered which force a radical reevaluation of the Italian papal court as a musical centre during the Great Schism. A series of motets for various popes are subject to close analysis. New interpretations and information are offered concerning the repertory of the papal chapel in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the institutional life of the papal singers, and the individual biographies of singers and composers. Thought-provoking, even controversial, evaluations of the music of composers connected with, or thought to be connected with, Rome and the papal court, such as Ninot le Petit, Josquin, and Palestrina round out the volume.
Early Musical Borrowing
Title | Early Musical Borrowing PDF eBook |
Author | Honey Meconi |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2004-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1135577943 |
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Printing Music in Renaissance Rome
Title | Printing Music in Renaissance Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Jane A. Bernstein |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2024-02-16 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0197669638 |
In sixteenth-century Italy, Rome ranked second only to Venice as an important center for music book production. Throughout the century, printers in the Eternal City experimented more readily and more consistently with the materiality of the book than their Venetian counterparts, who, by standardizing their printing methods, came to dominate the international marketplace. The Romans' ingenuity and willingness to meet individual clients' needs resulted in music editions in a broader array of shapes and sizes, employing a wider range of printing techniques. They became "boutique" printers, eschewing the run-of-the-mill in favor of tailoring production to varied market demands. Accommodating the diverse requirements of their clientele, they supplied customized volumes, which Venetian presses either could not--or would not--produce. In Printing Music in Renaissance Rome, author Jane A. Bernstein offers a panoramic view of the cultures of music and the book in Rome from the beginning of printing in 1476 through the early seventeenth century. Emphasizing the exceptionalism of Roman music publishing, she highlights the innovative printing technologies and book forms devised by Roman bookmen. She also analyzes the Church's predominant influence on the book industry and, in turn, the Roman press's impact on such important composers as Palestrina, Marenzio, Victoria, and Cavalieri. Drawing on innovative publications, Bernstein reveals a synergistic relationship between music repertories and the materiality of the book. In particular, she focuses on the post-Tridentine period, when musical idioms, both new and old, challenged printers to employ alternative printing methods and modes of book presentation in the creation of their music editions. Of interest to musicologists, art historians, and book historians alike, this book builds on Bernstein's previous work as she continues to chart the course of music and the book in Renaissance Italy.
Composing Community in Late Medieval Music
Title | Composing Community in Late Medieval Music PDF eBook |
Author | Jane D. Hatter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2019-05-02 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1108474918 |
An exploration of what self-referential compositions reveal about late medieval musical networks, linking choirboys to canons and performers to theorists.
Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture
Title | Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Suzannah Clark |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781843831662 |
Essays - collected in honour of Margaret Bent - examining how medieval and Renaissance composers responded to the tradition in which they worked through a process of citation of and commentary on earlier authors.
Josquin's Rome
Title | Josquin's Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Jesse Rodin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0199844305 |
Josquin's Rome offers a new reading of the works composed by Josquin des Prez during his time as a singer and composer for the pope's private choir.
Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond
Title | Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Brand |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2016-10-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107158370 |
The essays in this volume offer diverse, innovative approaches to medieval music and culture.