Overview

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.

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Author:   Richard Sherr (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Smith College, Northampton, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.733kg
ISBN:  

9780198164173

ISBN 10:   0198164173
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   21 May 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Message from the Librarian of Congress Richard Sherr: Preface Acknowledgements Original Programme of the Conference James Haar: Dedication: Howard Mayer Brown (1930-1993) Music in the Papal chapel in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries Margaret Bent: Early Papal Motets Guiliana Di Bacco/John Nadas: Papal Chapels and Italian Sources of Polyphony During the Great Schism Alejandro Planchart: Music for the Papal Chapel in the Early Fifteenth Century Adalbert Roth: Liturgical (and Paraliturgical) Music in the Papal Church towards the End of the 15th Century: a Repertory in Embryo Jeffrey Dean: The Evolutions of a Canon at the Papal Chapel: The Importance of Old Music in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Mitchell Brauner: Traditions in the Repertory of the Papal Choir in the 15th and 16th Centuries The Papal Choir as Institution Pamela Starr: Strange Obituaries: The Historical Use of the per obitum Supplication Richard Sherr: A Curious Incident in the Institutional History of the Papal Choir Studies of Individuals James Haar: Josquin in Rome: Some Evidence from the Masses Lewis Lockwood: A Virtuoso Singer at Ferrara and Rome: The Case of Bidom Louise Litterick: Who wrote Ninot's Chansons? Jessie Ann Owens: Palestrina at Work

Reviews

"`this book ... provides a richer and much more complex picture than implied by popular notions.' Audrey Ekdahl Davidson, Sixteenth Century Jnl, XXXI/3, 2000. `Most delightful is Sherr's own article (""A Curious Incident in the Institutional History of the Papal Choir""), which deals with the revolt of the choir during the 1540s against their own Maestro di Cappella in response to his attempt to alter their procedures and rules in order to benefit himself.' Audrey Ekdahl Davidson, Sixteenth Century Jnl, XXXI/3, 2000. `This is almost exclusively a book for specialist; but its content should justify purchase by academic libraries.' Early Music Review"

this book ... provides a richer and much more complex picture than implied by popular notions. Audrey Ekdahl Davidson, Sixteenth Century Jnl, XXXI/3, 2000. Most delightful is Sherr's own article ( A Curious Incident in the Institutional History of the Papal Choir ), which deals with the revolt of the choir during the 1540s against their own Maestro di Cappella in response to his attempt to alter their procedures and rules in order to benefit himself. Audrey Ekdahl Davidson, Sixteenth Century Jnl, XXXI/3, 2000. This is almost exclusively a book for specialist; but its content should justify purchase by academic libraries. Early Music Review

`this book ... provides a richer and much more complex picture than implied by popular notions.' Audrey Ekdahl Davidson, Sixteenth Century Jnl, XXXI/3, 2000. `Most delightful is Sherr's own article (""A Curious Incident in the Institutional History of the Papal Choir""), which deals with the revolt of the choir during the 1540s against their own Maestro di Cappella in response to his attempt to alter their procedures and rules in order to benefit himself.' Audrey Ekdahl Davidson, Sixteenth Century Jnl, XXXI/3, 2000. `This is almost exclusively a book for specialist; but its content should justify purchase by academic libraries.' Early Music Review

This is almost exclusively a book for specialist; but its content should justify purchase by academic libraries. * Early Music Review * Most delightful is Sherr's own article ( A Curious Incident in the Institutional History of the Papal Choir ), which deals with the revolt of the choir during the 1540s against their own Maestro di Cappella in response to his attempt to alter their procedures and rules in order to benefit himself. * Audrey Ekdahl Davidson, Sixteenth Century Jnl, XXXI/3, 2000. * this book ... provides a richer and much more complex picture than implied by popular notions. * Audrey Ekdahl Davidson, Sixteenth Century Jnl, XXXI/3, 2000. *

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